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Wonderfully Remote Great Basin National Park

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Monday, August 8th, 2016

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 a national park in Nevada couldn’t possibly amount to much. But this remote, little-visited national park has become one of […]

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Categories : National Parks, Nevada, Travel
Tags : Great Basin National Park, Whispering Elms RV Park

Great Basin: The Loneliest National Park

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Thursday, July 31st, 2014

Anchoring one end of “The Loneliest Highway in America,” Great Basin National Park has become one of our favorite parks. The hiking is spectacular, the spring and summer wildflowers abundant (in the fall, the leaf colors are equally stunning), the night skies for star gazing are among the finest in the country, and there’s even […]

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Categories : National Parks, Nevada, Travel
Tags : Great Basin National Park

Great Basin National Park

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Monday, September 17th, 2012

Unlike every other national park we’ve visited, there’s no entrance fee for Great Basin National Park. We were surprised by this, but then figured it’s because: 1) the park is in the middle of nowhere 2) it’s in Nevada 3) visiting a national park in the middle of nowhere in Nevada is not high on […]

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Categories : National Parks, Nevada
Tags : Great Basin National Park

Heavenly Angel Creek: Wells, Nevada

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Friday, August 19th, 2016

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, and were more than surprised by the beauty we discovered. Mountains? High alpine lakes? Aspen groves? This was not the […]

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Categories : Nevada, Travel
Tags : Angel Creek campground, Angel Lake

Home Again, One Year Later

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014

After one full year on the road, we didn’t anticipate just how unsettling it would feel to return to our hometown of Ashland, Oregon. We love Ashland. But as we entered the gravitational pull of the Rogue Valley, I felt a disquieting mix of excitement and anxiety. Returning Home It was odd to be returning […]

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Categories : Musings, Oregon, Travel
Tags : Ashland, Grizzly Peak, Lithia Park, Mt. Ashland, Rocky Point

Traveling The Loneliest Highway

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014

In July 1986, Life Magazine published an article about Highway 50, dubbing it “The Loneliest Road in America.” The American Automobile Association warned, “It’s totally empty. There are no points of interest. We don’t recommend it. We warn all motorists not to drive there unless they’re confident of their survival skills.” In our experience, Highway […]

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Categories : Nevada, Travel
Tags : HIckison Petroglyphs, Highway 50, Sand Mountain, The Loneliest Highway

A Farewell Tour Of Apalachicola

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Monday, April 24th, 2023

We returned to Apalachicola in mid-March, just long enough to pack up our belongings from our storage unit before heading north on our new life adventure. Driving along the Gulf on Highway 98, we felt the tug to make the turn onto Magnolia Bluff, toward our former sweet home on the bay. That’s when the […]

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Categories : Florida, Musings, Travel

High And Low Tides: Kouchibouguac And Fundy National Parks

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Monday, June 28th, 2021

The Bay of Fundy, located in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, boasts the highest tides in the world. Touted as one of the seven wonders of North America, it’s in league with the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Niagara Falls, Yosemite, the Everglades, and Denali. In mid-September of 2019, we headed to Fundy National Park, the […]

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Categories : Canada, Maritimes, New Brunswick, Travel
Tags : Alma New Brunswick, Fundy National Park, Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park, Kouchibouguac National Park

Halifax And Peggy’s Cove: Nova Scotia

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Sunday, December 13th, 2020

I don’t mean to give you whiplash, but our blog is heading back to the Maritimes now. We will be in Florida at least through next spring, and I’m determined to get our blog caught up before we get back on the road. (Hope springs eternal, and all that.) Picking up where we left off […]

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Categories : Canada, Maritimes, Nova Scotia, Travel
Tags : Art Gallery Of Nova Scotia, Dilly Dally Cafe, Five Islands Provincial Park, Halifax, Halifax Public Gardens, Maritime Museum Of The Atlantic, Maud Lewis, Peggy's Cove, Polly's Cove, Shubie Campground, The Bicycle Thief, Two Doors Down

Spectacular Hiking, Friends & Holiday Tamales: Phoenix & Tucson

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Monday, April 15th, 2019

When we were contemplating taking to the road, I anticipated exploring beautiful places and having grand adventures. But I never imagined the wonderful people we would meet, and how our community of friends would expand. Last December in Arizona, we experienced the best of this traveling life—we met up with old and new friends, stayed […]

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Categories : Arizona, Travel
Tags : Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Granite Mountain Loop Trail, Harris's Hawks, Lost Dutchman State Park, McDowell Mountain Regional Park, Musical Instrument Museum, Seven Falls Trail, Taliesin West, Vivace
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