Ah, camping again! We headed northbound from the Bay Area and stayed at Salt Point State Park in California. Evening entertainment consisted of listening to the neighbors wrestle with setting up their tent in the dark while their light shadows played on the trees around us. Woke up, used my own bathroom, made my Nespresso… […]
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 […]
Our next destination was Monument Valley and a few other sightseeing spots, after we crossed into Arizona via back roads. Since we didn’t prepare for anything, we had no idea vans were not allowed inside Monument Valley, or that it consisted of a dirt road. We were stopped at the entrance and asked if the […]
We arrived in Moab and found a BLM campground with hardly anyone in it – Horsethief Campground. It was the first time I experienced having to pay for a BLM site, but the campground was super nice with numbered sites and flat parking pads. We arrived after dark, so waited to hit up the self-pay […]
We headed into Colorado, where the roads were not so great. A was driving behind us and called to mention our bikes were nearly falling off the rack after a particularly nasty bump. We pulled over to adjust and tighten everything down before continuing on. Just shy of Silverthorne, with A behind us, we hit […]
After visiting family for a week, we continued our trek west with A tagging along in her van. I found a nice RV resort with cabins, so we booked her into one and dry camped outside it again (although there was an outlet on the outside wall of the cabin we were able to take […]
We headed from Bad Axe, Michigan to the northwest suburbs of Chicago, where my parents live. First we stopped at my Dad’s, had dinner at the local waterfront dining establishment and hung out. Then we visited my mom/baby brother’s family, again street camping (A got to sleep in the houses). The van has certainly afforded […]
When A tried to enter Canada six months prior, as mentioned, her van was stuffed to the gills with her belongings. The border agent looked at her and said, “Nope, looks like you’re trying to move here.” So she rented a storage unit in Buffalo, NY and unloaded her van before successfully crossing over again. […]