Driving to Wilmington, Day 1 | Camping & Hiking in Shawnee National Forest | November 2022 The first stop on this new adventure we’re embarking on was Wilmington, North Carolina. I know we have made it clear in the past that we aren’t big fans of the South, and South Carolina was definitely not our…
Southwestern Trip 2022 | Drive Back to the Midwest | Fishlake National Forest | Capitol Reef National Park | Little Wild Horse Slot Canyon | McInnis Canyons | October 2022 After over a week on the road, it was time to start making our way back to the Midwest to prepare for what was coming…
Southwest Road Trip 2022 | Our Time in Great Basin National Park | Hiking Mt. Wheeler | Stella Lake | October 2022 After leaving Cathedral Gorge, we started the drive North on US-93 to Great Basin National Park. The scenery around us was exactly how we imagined it would look like — a long, mostly…
Southwestern Trip 2022 | Hiking in Cathedral Gorge State Park | October 2022 We woke up in Utah on this Monday morning with one big item on the agenda: We needed to cross into Nevada and get Charlotte her 48th state! Yes, of course she cares about this – don’t you? How many dogs out…
Southwestern Trip 2022 | North Rim to Enterprise, UT | Kaibab National Forest | Pipe Springs National Monument | October 2022 Our night on the Kaibab Plateau was not only our highest in elevation, but the coldest overall, with nighttime temperatures reaching below freezing, and when we woke up there was a veneer of frost…
Southwestern Trip 2022 | Lee’s Ferry to the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park | October 2022 At this point in our road trip, we weren’t quite halfway done, but after yesterday’s excitement of completing a big bucket list item (kayaking to Antelope Canyon) I was concerned that we had already “peaked” for this…