National Parks

Yosemite National Park, Part Two

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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A Week of Chores

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,

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Death Valley National Park

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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Zion National Park

On Wednesday we said goodbye to Page and headed north to Zion National Park.  This is the first time on this adventure that we are visiting somewhere we have been before.  In 2020, we did a tour of Utah’s Mighty Five National Parks with some friends (Hi, Matt and Deven!  We miss you on this

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Petrified Forest National Park

Our day today was spent at Petrified Forest National Park.  This is one of those stops that we had planned, had to cancel due to weather, and then were able to reschedule later, so it was much anticipated!  Petrified Forest is about an hour away from where we are staying, so we knew that we

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Alamogordo, NM

When we left Chosa Campground in the ice and cold, we moved to Brantley Lake State Park.  In the two nights we stayed there, we pretty much just hunkered down to avoid the cold, so there isn’t much to say about that.  We will admit, though, that it was nice to have a couple of

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Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Our next adventure was Guadalupe Mountains National Park.  We had managed to snag a couple of nights in the Pine Springs Campground right inside the park, so off we went!  As I mentioned before, we always prefer to stay inside the parks when we can.  This campground was unlike any other we have ever stayed

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Big Bend National Park

Big Bend National Park has been on our list of places to go for years, but because of its remote location in south-western Texas, we never made it until now.  Once we knew that we were going to be on the road for an extended period of time and wanted to be in the southwest

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