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Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
I always find driving through Oklahoma a bit worrisome. I check the weather forecasts; read up on what to do should we encounter ominous conditions—in short, I obsess about tornadoes. The logical part...
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A Kayaking Extravaganza: Florida Springs
I don’t think there’s any more beautiful place to kayak and swim than the spring-fed rivers of Florida. Crystal clear waters—often an astonishing hue of aquamarine—wind through stands of palms and...
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Kayaking With Manatees
“There’s one!” I call out to Eric. An enormous grey blob rises slowly to the surface of the crystal clear river, exhales loudly, and sinks again to the sandy bottom. It’s a West Indian manatee, a...
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Slowing Down On Dauphin Island
We’ve been talking for a long time about slowing down our travels. In a couple of months, we’ll have been on the road fulltime for three years. Since we pulled out of our hometown of Ashland, Oregon in...
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It’s A Long Way Down: Carlsbad Caverns
While perusing the website for Carlsbad Caverns National Park, we decided to make reservations for a guided tour. We knew we wanted to visit the Big Room, the main cavern that’s open for self-guided...
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Back To Hiking: Oliver Lee Memorial SP
The last “real” hiking we did was back in the fall as we were making our way cross-country to Florida for the winter. We spent the winter and spring doing a lot of biking, kayaking, and what passes for...
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Colorful People & Places: Silver City, NM
As we started our hike up the trail overlooking Silver City, a man appeared on the path, seemingly out of nowhere. He wore a pair of slides reinforced with silver duct tape (incongruous footwear for...
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Delightful Lyman Lake State Park
Every so often, even with our new and improved travel plan of slowing our travels way down, we still end up with an overnight stay here and there. It’s just how things work out sometimes—and honestly,...
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A Stroll Through The Petrified Forest
Ifirst visited Petrified Forest National Park about 20 years ago, in mid-August, at mid-day. It was scorching hot, the sky hazy, and the petrified logs were uninspiring brown lumps. As you can imagine,...
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A Week Of Adventures: Lake Powell, AZ
The first glimpse is surreal—a vast sapphire body of water shimmering against a backdrop of picturesque, orange-hued sandstone buttes. At 186 miles long and with more than 90 side canyons that snake...
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A Spectacular Hike In Buckskin Gulch
Buckskin Gulch—the longest, deepest slot canyon in the Southwest—has long been on our hiking bucket list. Located in the Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness in southern Utah, the canyon is an undulating,...
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A Technicolor Landscape: Southern Utah
It’s quite possibly the most stunning landscape we’ve yet seen. Cliffs striped in crimson, orange, and violet stand tall against a cobalt sky; cinnabar colored hills rest against pillowy white clouds;...
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Beautiful Snow Canyon: St. George, Utah
We first visited Snow Canyon about 15 years ago while on a trip to nearby Zion National Park. All these years, we’ve planned to return—and finally did, in mid-May. We found it just as enchanting the...
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Wonderfully Remote Great Basin Nat’l Park
Considering that it’s pretty much in the middle of nowhere, it’s kind of surprising that we’ve made our way to Great Basin National Park three times now. I resisted going there for years, thinking that...
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Heavenly Angel Creek: Wells, Nevada
Angel Creek is one of the places that made us realize that Nevada is much more than barren desert and glitzy casinos. We stumbled across this little jewel several years ago on a cross-country journey,...
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Coming Full Circle: Joseph, Oregon
When people find out that we’ve been traveling fulltime for three years, they often remark that we must have been everywhere and seen everything by now. We naively assumed the same when we embarked on...
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Family Fun In Pullman, WA
Located in far eastern Washington is a handsome countryside of rolling agricultural land. Fields of wheat and lentils are a verdant green in spring, fading to gold in late summer. Blue sky and clouds...
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Finally! The North Cascades
We’ve tried at least four times in the past few years to get to North Cascades National Park. Each time, we were foiled by mudslides, snowstorms, or wildfires. In mid-June, no random acts of nature...
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Another Summer On Lopez Island
As of mid-October, we’re back in Ashland, Oregon, taking care of a myriad of things that need to be completed before we can again resume our travels. This is a challenging part of fulltime RV...
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A Beautiful Autumn In Ashland
Autumn in our hometown of Ashland, Oregon is truly a thing of beauty. For a leisurely stretch of several weeks, the valley is painted with rich reds and golds, the weather is generally perfect, and the...
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