Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
The Untangling Knotts blog is back!!! Like the rest of the world we’re itching to get back to something reseambling normality after largely spending the past 15 months cooped up at home in Illinois. We are now now just FIVE days away from the start of RTXXI! We’ll be hitting many of our old favorite […]
Read More RTXXI Is Coming!Sometimes as I’m trying to locate camping or lodging reservations it feels opaque and tricky to find prices and options. What is your process for determining where to stay and when to book? Our first step to planning our trips is to decide which hikes we’d like to do. This gives us a rough framework […]
Read More Reader Question – ReservationsDeath 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: OverviewI’m usually happy to jump on board celebrating made up holidays. Especially the lesser known ones like today’s “National Plan For Vacation Day”. Like most of these holidays, plan for vacation day is an invention of people with a vested interest in separating us from our cash. Its inventor, the U.S. Travel Association, is an […]
Read More Plan For Vacation Day“head for the next town running‘Cause I’ve got memories and travel like gypsies in the night” Alice Merton With only 18 days until we set out on RTXIX we’ve hit the point where we begin making the shift from theoretical planning to practical. This will be the 6th summer road trip we’ve taken and each […]
Read More No Roots (RTXIX Preview)I outlined our route in a post a few weeks ago, but didn’t really fill in any details about our plans along the way. While we have some major highlights of the trip tentatively planned (keep your fingers crossed that some of the snow in RMNP melts before we get there) there are still many […]
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