Day 2 in Death Valley National Park | Badwater Basin | Natural Bridge Trail | Devil’s Golf Course | Artists Palette | December 2024 For our second day in Death Valley, we planned to visit as many of the highlights along Badwater Road as we could. As soon as we were awake, we immediately drove…
Day 1 in Death Valley National Park | 20 Mule Team Canyon | Dante View | Camping in Sunset Campground | December 2024 Today was the day that we were finally visiting Death Valley for our first time! We felt a little underprepared, as we hadn’t made any sort of reservations and didn’t know how…
Driving from Mojave National Preserve to Death Valley National Park | Hiking in the Salt Creek Hills | Visiting the China Ranch Date Farm | Tecopa, CA | December 2024 This morning, we packed up our campsite in Mojave National Preserve to continue our drive North to Death Valley. We knew we had hardly scratched…
Kingman, AZ to Mojave National Preserve | Hiking Hackberry Peak | Camping in Mojave National Preserve | December 2024 Jess: This morning, we left our campsite off of AZ-68 and headed West, crossing the Colorado River into Nevada at Laughlin. As it was nearing the last day of the year, our reason for taking this…
Driving from Camp Verde to Kingman, AZ | Visiting Tuzigoot National Monument | December 2024 As if yesterday wasn’t a good enough first day back in Arizona, today started off with a long-anticipated sighting for us. We started this morning with driving over to a nearby campground/trailhead so that Curtis could find a letterbox. As…
Driving from Datil, NM to Camp Verde, AZ | Hiking Baker Butte | December 2024 After spending several days planted in the mountains near Datil, NM, we were feeling refreshed and ready to resume our drive West — and especially excited to return to our favorite state of Arizona! This visit would be brief as…