We’ve decided that you can identify some places by the predominant non-auto vehicle you see on the local roads. Horse and buggy? Nappanee, Indiana. Snowmobiles?
Category: Travel Entries
A Landscape of Down
Canyonlands National Park is the opposite of Arches. Where Arches formations stick up like the fingertips and spines (and other parts) of giants, in Canyonlands
Cowboy Jacuzzis
Moab is dry. It is also dusty. Like whack-the-trail-dust-off-yer-chaps-with-yer-hat, old-timey, Wild West kind of dusty. Everything here is covered and coated and crusted and dusted
A Landscape of Up
Located just north of Moab, Arches National Park is a landscape of up. Look up at the lumpy stone towers plopped here and there, grouped
Homing In
“We’re just looking for a place to exist in this world,” I said to Carol, the obtuse Utah state forestry agent on the phone. It
This Park Is Beautiful. It’s Even More Terrifying.
We drove Rimrock Drive and hiked Serpent’s Trail (“the most crooked road in the world” when it was used to haul coal 80 years ago)
The Peachfork – Palisade, Colorado
The Harvest Hosts program pairs local businesses – wineries, family farms, museums, and other unique locations – with RV travelers. In exchange for allowing campers to boondock
The World That Was Born
Tuesday was a rough day. Libbie was towed up, over, and then down the steep, curving highway along Monarch Pass. Later we wound our white-knuckled
Minimizing Overhead
On our guided geology walk at Black Canyon National Park, Ranger Paul talked about the “overhead” of life, the things we need to do in
First, You Have to Climb
At 9200 feet above sea level, O’Haver Lake is a glassy oasis between surrounding peaks: Ouray, Cleveland, Sheep Northeast. And adjacent to this picture-postcard setting