After our two months in Missouri with family for the holidays, we hit the road on January 4th for Texas. It took us two days to get to our first destination, Dallas. We only spent 5 nights in Dallas, but that was enough. Downtown was pretty cool, especially the “Deep Ellum” area, but the rest …
October in Colorado never disappoints! After our time near Mesa Verde, we headed up to camp outside Salida, CO. This is one of our top three destinations in CO – we’ve camped in this area dozens of times over the years. The area is always quiet, well-spaced and in October it is pretty empty. While …
As we made our way back east for the holidays, we stopped in at Mesa Verde National Park. After living in Colorado for 7 years, it seemed a bit crazy we hadn’t spent time at Mesa Verde NP nor Great Sand Dunes NP (spoiler: that will be in the next post). Our campsite for the …
We headed over to Capitol Reef National Park after our stay at Bryce Canyon. We ended up staying for 3 nights – unfortunately there was a ton of rain recently so a lot of the roads to trailheads were closed while we were there. Either way, we managed to have a good time exploring what …
After our brief trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, we headed north to Bryce Canyon National Park. We ended up spending 6 days at a dispersed area – Tom’s Best Spring Road. The area was wonderful – very close to the national park with plenty of big, private sites and the roads …
After our time at Great Basin National Park, we headed to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon where we met up with my (Kyle’s) parents. This is our second time to the Grand Canyon – the first was at the South Rim. My parents were camped at Kaibab Camper Village and we snagged a …
Despite a great summer in the pacific northwest, we decided to head east towards the rockies for fall. We initially had plans to spend some time in Bend, OR as well as Lake Tahoe, CA. However, we had been watching the wildfires and smoke forecasts for weeks and both of these areas were getting hammered …
After ten glorious days outside Mt. Hood, it was time to head out to the coast. We made the drive southwest to Bandon for our short stay at Bullards Beach State Park. We really wanted to check out a new-ish mountain bike trail system in the area known as Whiskey Run. Thankfully, we had an …
After our week at Olympic National Park, we made our way down to Oregon – we stayed for 11 days at Trillium Lake Campground just south of Mt. Hood. The campground was very beautiful, tucked in the woods next to a lake. As with most of our location choices, this place had plenty of great …
The next national park on our Washington list was Olympic National Park. We were expecting beautiful views and it didn’t disappoint! We spent a full week in the park, but suspect another three weeks could easily be filled with adventure and sight-seeing. This park is HUGE! We stayed at the Sol Duc campground the whole …
