Category: National Parks
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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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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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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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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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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…
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Petrified to Hike
Another day, another National Park sticker. That is a terrible attitude to have when exploring one of America’s Crown Jewels. It takes an Act of Congress to designate a NP, and everyone knows they rarely agree on anything. On our visit to Petrified Forest National Park, however, that was our attitude. Scurry and Plod were…