Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
“North Country winters keep a-getting me down . . . I ain’t turning back to living that old life no more” – Old Crow Medicine Show Day 24 and we’re over halfway gone. Sad to think that three weeks from now this will all just be memories. As a bit of consolation I did make […]
Read More Wagon WheelToday we got up at 6:40 we packed up camp again and went back to the visitor center. We went to the porch in the back and waited for a ranger to take us on the 8:15 tour of the cliff dwelings. The hike started with down down down. We stopped several times to learn […]
Read More Day 24 and I can not believe that we are already half way over with our trip and I can not wait ✋ for arches😝Waking up at camp is never fun. Before even being able to stretch or brush teeth, we have to get right to work. We are all responsible for packing up our sleeping gear inside the tent: sleeping bag, sleeping mat, and camping pillow. Seems easy but each of those items has to be shoved into […]
Read More Day 24: Navajo National Mounument and Canyon de ChellyToday we got up at 8:00. We did not have a lot plans for today so we slept in. After getting ☝ we packed up our room. We had a wood cabin. It was made of wood. We had pop tarts. Then we drove four hours to State 48 which we had lunch at. I […]
Read More Day 23 and we did not do a lot at least I did not because I do not feel that good😋“dam . . . Otter Creek / and all the water backed up” – Live Today may go down as the best dam day of the entire trip. Although that isn’t saying a lot because I think it might be the only dam day. Last night we decided to use today mostly for recovery from […]
Read More … Dam … Otter CreekToday we woke up in our hotel just a couple of hours just away from the dam visitor center. After a stop for Dam Coffee we were on our way. As we were near the Dam Visitors Center we drove through a cute town. It don’t know the name so I’m just going to call […]
Read More The Dam Visitors Center and CampingThis morning we woke up from camping at 6:40 and we arrived at the visitors center by 8. Our tour started at 8:15. Our ranger was very informative and talked about what her family and ansestors used all of the different plants for. The hike decended about 1,000 feet over 1.5 miles. When we got […]
Read More Navajo National MonumentDay 23. The half way point. Considering all that we’ve learned and experienced thus far, it’s crazy to think it could double. We woke up late at the Bryce Canyon Log Cabins. It was a much needed rest day, so we slept in until 8. After grabbing coffee we started a three and a half […]
Read More Day 23: Glen Canyon Dam, Horseshoe Bend, and Navajo National Monument