We stayed four nights in Olympic National Park’s Sol Duc campground, a remote hideaway adjacent to natural hot spring pools and the energetic Sol Duc

We stayed four nights in Olympic National Park’s Sol Duc campground, a remote hideaway adjacent to natural hot spring pools and the energetic Sol Duc
There’s this thing about rainforests. It rains there. Like, a lot. Like, all the time. Which is the attraction to the place and why it
It’s raining. Has been for hours: a constant drizzle, pattering relentless on our roof so loud it drowns conversation if we’re in opposite corners of
Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument (GSENM) spans almost a million acres, half the size of Yellowstone and almost as big as Grand Canyon National
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
We spent four hours on Flagstaff Lake today, paddling five miles across and around it. This was new to us both. Even if not open
Few know of my small phobia of big water. This unwelcome fear is why I don’t typically seek out water-oriented diversions. That changed a little