Category: Post-COVID Shutdown 2022
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Closing Time
In 300 miles we will be back in Bradenton, Fl where our adventure began. Thank you for following along. It is a strange feeling sitting in a state park on the Georgia-Florida border contemplating if this is the last night we spend in Roxie. It is easy to say, “No, next year we will do it again. There…
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Betting on Gateway Arch
Not a sole can tell you, not even the Google, why a manmade steel structure sitting on 90 acres of city park was designated a National Park in 2018. Did it have something to do with the Senators from Missouri who sponsored the bill, Blunt and McCaskill? Was it because it’s former name, The Jefferson…
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Don’t Sound the Alarm
Thirty miles north of Cheyenne, a low slung building with faded yellow aluminum siding sits alone on a range of scrub land, grazed by cattle for as far as the eye can see. Its distinguishing feature is the 12 foot high security fence boxing it in. The structure is the above-the-ground portion of Quebec 01,…
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Green Bakers
Not born in a small town. Never lived in a small town. Probably won’t die in a small town, but oh we love those small town communities. Well, they’re not exactly John Mellancamp’s Small Town lyrics but after living in Baker, NV for a week, we daydream about living in that small town, boring romantics…
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Alpine for Baker
Liz Woolsey wiped down the counter at her general store. She just re-opened in March from a long cold winter. Her husband James is the Superintendent of Great Basin National Park. Her store is a perfectly curated mix of food, wine and gear all reasonably priced and beautifully displayed and appears to be her passion project ; perhaps…
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A Great Basin Life
Truth be told, we had no idea what Great Basin National Park was having done no research other than Apple-mapping directions from Zion. Since we arrived four days ago, we’ve come to learn that Great Basin National Park is not the Great Basin like Grand Canyon National Park is basically the Grand Canyon. Great Basin National Park…
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Great Basin
Feeling sore and annoyed from Zion madness, we pulled the proverbial plug and headed north on I-15 toward Salt Lake City to begin the journey home. Three NP stickers in 2 months plus slot canyons, lost canyons, Macklemore, Overland, trout, moths, birthdays, anniversary and 43 blogs – it felt like we’d done enough, experienced enough to…
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Straight and Narrows
International travel is back. In our two days at Zion National Park we were English speaking minorities. Surrounded by a cacophony of Asian, European and Latin tongue, had we not known we were in Utah, we could have been anywhere else in the world. Last time we were in Zion, one of the “10 Best hikes in…
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Fifty Five – Sixty
The thing we like most about our birthdays is that they are back-to-back. In thinking about what to do for the big 55/60 we decided to be ourselves, come out of the woods and do things that were both enjoyable and essential to furthering our adventures. For Eric, that’s pickleball, clean truck and a cold…
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Views from the North Rim
We didn’t go to Grand Canyon’s North Rim to get the sticker. Technically there’s not a separate sticker for the South Rim and the North Rim and we did the kit and caboodle at South Rim a few years back. We went because it’s the Grand Canyon, duh, and all Americans basically have to go…