Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
Death Valley National Park is actually home to four separate valleys which collectively make it the largest park in the contiguous United States. More than 90% of the area of the park is designated wilderness which means it is an ideal hiking destination for us. Although it will certainly be busy in late March, it […]
Read More SBXX: Death Valley NPWhile we’re all excited for and eagerly counting down to RTXX (128 days), there is an even closer event that we need to start getting ourselves psyched up for – SPRING BREAK! Just 51 days from now we’ll depart for for southern California for a week of hiking, backpacking, and of course a bit of […]
Read More SBXX: OverviewBeen traveling these wide roads for so long… Take me to your river Leon Bridges Today was our cave day. It was bound to happen. Our original plan was supposed to take us home through South Dakota and Wind Cave, but with the extra stop at CO Home at the end, that was scratched from […]
Read More RiverA week or so ago when we were in Yosemite NP I promised a video. We’re in Medford, OR tonight and finally have internet fast enough to get it uploaded. In case you’ve forgotten, let me refresh your memory. We had just checked into The Diggins and were enjoying a glass of whiskey. We heard […]
Read More The Video You’ve Been Waiting ForYou should’ve said no, you should’ve gone homeYou should’ve thought twice before you let it all go Taylor Swift As I’ve explained here previously, we very intentially skipped San Francisco this trip. Not only did we not want a repeat of RTXVII, we didn’t even want to be in the city where it happened. We […]
Read More Should’ve Said NoIt’s not some message written in the dark,Or some truth that no one’s seen,It’s a little bit of everything. -Dawes For a day with no plan we managed to pack in an awful lot! In fact it was so much that I’m really not sure where to start, so I think I’ll do this top […]
Read More A Little Bit of EverythingAnd you would say something has gone wrong. Toad the Wet Sprocket That something is snow. We’ve known for a while that backpacking wasn’t going to work out for us at Lassen Volcanic NP. What we didn’t comprehend until today was just how much snow there still was. There was so much that the road […]
Read More Something’s Always WrongAnd we love and we shove it aside Aside -Dispatch I think we’re ready to declare the Day 14 curse officially lifted. The only real negative of the day for me was that I only slept about two hours in the yurt last night. Between the people showering, cleaners cleaning, babies crying, and bears prowling […]
Read More Curse and CrushWe can never know about the days to come But we think about them anyway – Carly Simon Since we need to plan our trips over a year ahead of time there is no way to take weather into account. There’s almost no way to take climate into account! As I’ve mentioned the Western US […]
Read More AnticipationAnd we walked off to look for America – Simon and Garfunkel One last meal at Kerouac’s and one last long drive West today. We made it to California after traversing the alternating ranges of mountains and broad valleys that make up central Nevada. Breakfast was the most notable party of the day. We shared […]
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