I was disappointed when I tried to run the generator that a) first it wouldn’t start; and b) after flipping onboard breaker it would start, but not charge/power. I was probably going to have to visit STG’s shop in Tennessee to get it fixed. I suspected something didn’t go quite right during the lithium conversion/installation. […]

The park contains quite the varied landscapes and volcanic features. I started thinking maybe it wasn’t so safe to have so many people traveling through it every day. We finally saw a bear, so I think we checked all the boxes, although it was so far up the hill, I’m not sure it counts. A […]

Pardon the photo of Old Faithful. I took video of the actual eruption. The timing seemed off.

There is no cell signal in the park and our Starlink wasn’t mounted in a way it could travel, so we relied entirely on the GPS in the stereo. Glad it worked since it was part of the stereo install I completed! Baby bison and parents ran right past our van. We spotted elk. Our […]

I realized our reservation to camp in Yellowstone was a day earlier than I thought, so we had to book it to get there in time. Oops! We stopped briefly at a park in Twin Falls, Idaho to view the falls. We arrived in Yellowstone close to sunset and our first wildlife encounter caused a […]

Visiting KT’s step-dad in Tahoe has definitely become our standard when heading to/from California for points east and north. Vacation time arrived and we were bound for Yellowstone. I found us a place along a canal with roaming cows near Elko, NV – although it geotagged it as Carlin, NV. The most notable feature was […]

4th of July. KT borrowed the shower in my brother’s hotel room. The van was quite dirty, so stop one after a joint breakfast and farewell to my brother was to wash the van. We were so close to Mono Lake, so we stopped briefly to check it out. Next up in our western national […]

I found Bryce Canyon NP to be stunning – I liked it a lot more than Zion (and Arches). We took our time on the second day to really explore the entire park. Beautiful! The geological formations were fascinating and seemed to go on forever. After getting back on the road, I found us a […]

Since Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon are so close, and Zion is really a “drive through” park, we drove through Zion and had a camping reservation at Bryce for the night. Zion was really nice, scenic to drive through, and the long tunnel was something! Very dark inside. We stopped at just about every […]