First things first, when we left the redwoods on Sunday, we headed north into Oregon to a Harvest Hosts location, Aranaway Farm. It was amazing. It was mostly a horse farm, but there were also a couple of cows and some sheep and a goat. Many of the animals had free reign of the farm, […]
Yesterday, we spent the day exploring the southern portion of Redwood National and State Parks. This park unit is co-managed by the National Park Service and California State Parks, and most of our visit was concentrated in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. We started off with a drive and short hike to Fern Canyon. We
A drive further up California Highway 1 brought us to MacKerricher State Park. This is another coastal park and is located just a few miles north of Fort Bragg. The drive between Salt Point and here was gorgeous, but all the driving we have done on the 1 has been super curvy with lots of
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Leaving Yosemite was sad, but we knew there were other adventures ahead. A couple of weeks ago, when we left the Central California coast, we knew we didn’t want that to be the end of our coastal adventures, so we started looking for some spots along the Northern California coast for after Yosemite. Those spots
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Wow! Yosemite is breath taking! Bear with us in this post as we run through the thesaurus of all words synonymous with amazing. No matter what words we use, though, it will never be enough to describe the reality of Yosemite. If you ever have the chance to go, jump on it! We spent a
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We are in Yosemite National Park! This is Jeff’s first visit, and while Heather was here as a teenager, she has always wanted to come back to experience it as an adult who can appreciate it a little more. It has been a much anticipated stop on this adventure and we were concerned for a
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Last Friday, we moved on from the California coast to Tule Campground on Success Lake near Porterville, CA. This location was not selected because it is a particularly beautiful area or because there is a ton to do or see here. To be quite honest, we had an extra week between the coast and Yosemite,
We knew when we left Lone Pine that we wanted to head for the coast. Staying on the coast was proving to be difficult because a lot of the campgrounds are closed due to damage from recent storms and the ones that are open were already booked. Somehow, though, we managed to get a spot
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At the end of the Death Valley blog post a few days ago, we said to check back to see where we ended up since we weren’t entirely sure where we were going. Well, we did not have to resort to a parking lot! We came over the mountains into Lone Pine, CA and had
Today we spent the afternoon at Manzanar National Historic Site. This is a place we had never heard of until we came to this area, and we really weren’t expecting there to be much to do there. We were thinking we would probably be there for an hour or so and then on to something
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Warning: This is a long one, so grab a snack and get comfortable. We had originally intended for this to be broken into two separate posts, but we didn’t have any cell service to upload the first one when it was ready, and in an effort to get caught up, we are making it one
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Well. After our Valley of Fire visit, we had a couple of days that we didn’t have to be anywhere in particular, so we were planning to hang out in the camper and get some blog and video work done as well as a few chores around the camper. It is a good thing we
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Yesterday didn’t exactly go as planned, but we were able to recover and it turned out to be a good day! Our plan was to get up and head to Valley of Fire State Park in hopes of getting one of their first come, first served campsites and then spend the next couple of days
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The weather has not cooperated with us the last few days. After our amazing snowshoeing and snow hiking adventures, we settled in for two solid days of rain. We worked on videos and blog posts, watched YouTube videos, read, internet searched, trip planned, etc. since we weren’t able to get out. We did take a
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We have been on the road for two months today, so we thought we would reflect a bit and check in with how we feel like it has gone so far. We also asked some of our family and friends what questions they have for us, so we will get to some of those, too.
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