Not quite six weeks into our journey, we’re finally finding our stride. The emails and phone calls we’ve received in the past week from friends have helped immensely. So has meeting new friends in our travels. Everyone, without exception, has been generous in offering support and encouragement. Undoubtedly we’ll trip and stumble again—but that’s true […]
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I guess it had to happen at some point in our travels. The Monday afternoon after we moved camp from the eastern end of the Columbia Gorge to the western end, Eric said, “Every part of my body hurts.” At first, I attributed it to the strenuous uphill hike we had just completed at the […]
There’s enough going on in the Columbia Gorge to occupy a lifetime. We only had eight days there, so we took the smorgasbord approach and sampled a bit of everything that appealed to us. It was just the right way to experience what the gorge has to offer, and left us wanting to return for […]
While in Joseph, we took a day trip to the Zumwalt Prairie, a Nature Conservancy preserve about 25 miles east of town and even further out into the middle of nowhere. There’s a beautiful sign proclaiming that we had indeed arrived at the preserve, but there were no discernible trails. We flagged down the young […]
The main street in the tiny town of Joseph leads directly into the vast wilderness of the Wallowa Mountains. Tucked into the far northeastern corner of Oregon, Joseph is in the middle of high desert-mountains-nowhere. It was the perfect place to spend a week, allowing us the time and space to recover from the intensity […]
There are unexpected treasures in the Oregon high desert. Traveling along mostly deserted roads next to the winding John Day River, the scenery is a dramatic mix of mountains, river valleys, and the spectacular geologic formations of the John Day Fossil Beds. The Painted Hills and Sheep Rock Unit (both in the John Day Fossil […]
As of last Wednesday, June 12th, we’re on the road, traveling and living full-time in our 21’ Bigfoot travel trailer. (With the cat, but that’s another post.) Had we known what it would take to prepare for this adventure, I suspect we might have bailed on the idea. Over the past few years, we’ve fantasized […]
While camping at Joshua Tree National Park, Eric looked at me across the trailer dinette table one morning and said, “Looks like we both need haircuts.” A little background here: This is a man who does not notice details. When I have my hair cut at home, one week later he might say, “Did you […]
Didn’t mean to leave ya’ll stranded at Rockhound State Park. We’ve been home for three weeks as of today, and I’ve been intending to post a blog or two. With settling back into life in Ashland and the festivities of the holidays, I got sidetracked. But after receiving a number of emails from long-distance friends […]
We discovered this New Mexico state park several years ago on one of our cross-country trips, and always look forward to returning. It’s located in the Little Florida Mountains just outside of Deming, New Mexico. (You don’t know where that is? We didn’t either until we stumbled across it. My geography skills have vastly improved […]
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