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 interfered, and we finally made it there. The park is not easy to access under the best of conditions. Located […]
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 provide the backdrop; a few barns here and there add a bit of vertical interest. This is the Palouse. It’s a […]
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 this journey. But what we didn’t anticipate is that our travel bucket list is getting longer instead of shorter (this […]
In late May, we spent a few days in Boise, Idaho. It turned out to be one of the most delightful cities we’ve yet visited, a nearly perfect combination of culture and nature (and great food). We biked along the lovely riverfront trail every day, discovered wonderful restaurants and cafés, explored the attractive downtown, and […]
As of mid-June, we’ve been on the road for three years full-time. Our blog is lagging behind, but before life gets too much more away from me, I want to share a few thoughts about how it’s going. I’m writing this from the sofa, where I’m propped up with pillows and heat packs, anti-inflammatories and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Snow Canyon just as enchanting the second time around. We hiked through stands of blooming yucca, admiring the magnificent red cliffs of Navajo sandstone […]
Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument offers up some of the most stunning landscape we’ve seen in our travels. Cliffs striped in crimson, orange, and violet stand tall against a cobalt sky. Cinnabar colored hills rest against pillowy white clouds. And giant red and white rock toadstools rise from a lunar setting. On a brilliantly sunny […]
Buckskin Gulch—the longest, deepest slot canyon in the Southwest—has long been on our hiking bucket list. Located in the Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness in southern Utah, the canyon is an undulating, narrow, 13-mile long corridor of sculpted sandstone. We enjoy challenging hikes. But when I happened across an article in Backpacking Magazine that described Buckskin Gulch […]
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