Visiting Tonto National Monument | Roosevelt Dam | Strawberry Creek | December 2023 We woke up the morning after camping on Pinal Peak feeling grateful that it wasn’t freezing and glad we had stayed to enjoy the morning views, but also ready to drive back down to the warmth. Just another reason to love Arizona…
Visiting Tumacacori National Monument | Hiking the Anza Trail from Tubac to Tumacacori | December 2023 For our time in Arizona this month, we obviously wanted to spend time with friends and family around Tucson and revisit some favorite places, but I also had a short list of places that I wanted to visit that…
Winter Migration Road Trip, Day 7 | Caprock Canyon, TX to Fort Stanton, NM | Hiking & Camping in Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area & Historic Site | November 2023 After leaving Texas, we entered New Mexico and took US-70 West. We remembered this route as being one of our favorites back when…
Winter Migration Road Trip, Day 3 | Missouri to Kansas | Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield | George Washington Carver National Monument | November 2023 We woke up at our campsite in Central Missouri snug in our bed, but the cabin temperature was 45. After running the heater to get us above 50, we braved the…
Visiting Fort Macon State Park | Camping at Oyster Point | New Bern Civil War Battlefield Park | North Carolina | July 2023 The plan for our drive from Wilmington, NC back to the Midwest was to hug the coast and drive up the Outer Banks of North Carolina and up to Norfolk, VA before…
Canadian Rockies Road Trip, Day 13 | Sheraton, BC to Kitwanga, BC | Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park | Malkow Lookout Trail | Gitwangak Battle Hill National Historic Site | June 2023 We left our campsite at Co-op Lake early in the morning to continue our drive on the Yellowhead Highway. Today we would be driving…