Category: 10T-iversary
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Knot your average 10T-iversary
According to the The Knot, a website dedicated to all things wedding, the traditional gift for 10 years of marriage is made from tin or aluminum. Pliable yet strong, these materials represent the flexibility that comes with a long-lasting relationship. We suggest they add 30 days of nomadic tent camping to the approved gift list…
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Sooner or Later, it’s all OK
Roadtrip thrifting is way more exciting than hometown thrifting. The only thing better than finding fast wifi in a small town library, is finding the local small town thriftshop. Sheri is always scanning on the slow down drive through for treasure huts. Eric agrees to stop most of the time and sometimes hits the brakes…
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New Mexico Magic
Our dash across 1-70 was a Rocky Mountain High buzzkill. Colorado is massively populated. The ski towns are packed with condominium complexes and the parks are overrun with people from the Denver metro center. J.D.’s 1970s version is now a nostalgic sing-a-long. After three wicked cold nights in Aurora, we looked for any destination that…
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Colorado Cold
The terrain of Southern Utah is surely from another planet. I-70 follows an old Mormon trail through land 300 million years in the making. It wasn’t our first time circling the Utah Big 5 so we put some serious miles behind us at a high rate of speed. We had a weekend rendezvous with our…
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Wildrose Retreat
Death Valley will kill you, but only if it can find you. You have to keep moving to stay alive. We’re hitting a groove in 10T-iversary. We can set and break camp in less than 30 minutes. We can prepare nutritious meals from ingredients in 2 coolers and a box on a propane stove with…
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Nearly the Death of Us Valley
If you’ve ever wondered what’s at The End of The World, it’s an old Dodge Minivan stuck nose deep in the sand, 20 miles outside Joshua Tree National Park. In all our NP experiences, we’ve got a nose for one day and one week+ parks. Like Cuyahoga Falls, Indiana Dunes, Hot Springs and Congaree, Joshua…
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With or (hopefully) Without You at Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree masterfully expresses human ideals of earnestness, austerity and introspection. We’re talking about the 1987 U2 album, of course. Joshua Tree National Park on Easter Sunday during Spring Break masterfully expresses the behavior of clueless people acting like animals let loose from their urban cages. The main attractions at JTNP are the gnarly…
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Collective Soul
North of Palm Springs in the Morongo Valley, Rose has opened her 5 acre hipcamp one mile down a country dirt road for hip travelers who are looking for a place to boondock and find inner peace for the night. The Desert Rose Collective, however, is so much more. It is a full amenity camping…
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Desert X-tra
Sheri’s wish list for 10T-iversary weekend: Coachella, Wind Farm, Palm Springs MCM motel, and The Integratron. Eric’s wish list: To make it happen. Sheri didn’t actually want to attend Coachella, she just wanted to see the place where the cheapest ticket is $600 for a 3 day general admission and $450+ to car camp and…
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Fruit of the Bloom
Let’s just go. That’s what we finally said to each other after months of back and forth on whether or not Sheri would get to see carpets of wildflowers if we took a 7,000 mile road trip. If the bloom was a bust, we may as well make an event out of it and call…