By the Numbers
There are always some fun numbers after a trip like this. There are more numbers that I have filled in later, like "pictures kept" and ...
Blog: 2018
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The Final Leg
The last day of the trip started in Dayton with a visit to the National Museum of the USAF. The museum is on the Wright ...
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More Arches
Today's stop was at another national park. It's currently the newest park (added February 2018) and smallest park at less than 100 acres. It's also ...
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Back to the Salt Mines
Today's goal was to get across the rest Kansas (most of it) and half way or so across Missouri. That would take me through Lawrence ...
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The Long Drive Home Begins
Today the trip homeward started in earnest. I will need to drive 8-9 hours east each day to get back to PA. However, a few ...
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Cliff Dwellings
Last night it was windy. It blew hard all night, which is pretty noisy when you're in a tent. I will admit I slept very ...
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A Land of Canyons
Today I headed for Canyonlands. I did some research online to pick my hikes, and found out that Canyonlands is really separated into three areas: ...
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Arches, Arches Everywhere
Today was the trip to Arches National Park. This one is not subtle about how it got its name; there are some 2000 arches in ...
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A Reef in the Desert?
Today I toured Capital Reef. The whole area is so different from the Northeast that it is constantly surprising me. I suppose that if I ...
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No Caves For You!
Great Basin is a smallish park and the only one in Nevada. It has Wheeler Peak which is about 13,000 feet and Lehman Caves. Unfortunately ...
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The Turn East
Today I started back home. Apparently California wasn't too keen on the idea; when I got up Google told me that the road I was ...
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California Dude!
Leaving a campground you have to yourself is always a little bittersweet. But I got up as usual at 6:00 and got ready, moving the ...
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Crater Lake
This morning I headed off to Crater Lake. Now that I've left the land of the Squatch, the sun was shining and the skies were ...
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Heading South
Today was a relocation day. The primary task was dropping my girlfriend off at the airport in Seattle (since some of us have to work ...
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It's Always Sunny in Seattle
Today's journey took our intrepid travelers a few hours east to Mount Rainier National Park. We crossed the Tacoma Narrows bridge on the way. That's ...
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Beach Trip
Today's hike was a triangle out at Ozette. I don't think it was specifically a rain forest but it has the usual quantity of ferns, ...
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Rainforests
"This does feel rainforest-y." "Because we're in a forest and it's raining?" After living in your car for a couple weeks, adding another person is ...
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Driving Day Heading West
Today was a repositioning day as I drove to Seattle to meet my girlfriend at the airport. Hopefully the addition of someone with a better ...
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Glacier National Park
My friend Adam was enthusiastic about huckleberries during his time in Montana, so I really wanted to try some. If you've never tried huckleberries that ...
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A Day Off?
Today was a planned day off. It sounds really weird to talk about taking a day off while on vacation, but sooner or later you ...
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Back on the Road
While I will grumble about the long traffic jams caused by viewing wildlife, I understand that is what a lot of people are most interested ...
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Yellowstone
I chose to spend some additional time in Yellowstone because there is so much to see, and because a lot of other people are trying ...
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Adjacent Parks
I spent last night in a hotel. I had originally planned to camp, but checking the weather a week back it was supposed to be ...
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Heading West Again
Today was mainly a travel day. I had to get all the way across Wyoming, and they don't have a turnpike so it was maybe ...
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Caves and Towers
Waking up in Rushmore just made me feel touristy so I was itching to hit the road. I called an audible and toured through Custer ...
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So Much to See in this Area
Today started at 6:00 AM like most of my mornings. It took about 40 minutes to break camp and eat breakfast. Afterwards I headed to ...
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Keep Moving
Today my schedule consisted of two things: hike at Theodore, and drive to Badlands. For the hike at TR I opted for the Petrified Forest. ...
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My First Park
It's day 2.5 and I arrived at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. As Julius Caesar would have said, "Theodorus est divisa in partes ...
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Another day driving
Day 2 is the longest planned driving day on the trip. Because I decided that the trip really begins in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, I ...
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And so it begins
Friday night I loaded up the car with all the stuff I've packed. No doubt too much of it will never be used, and yet ...
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Sleeping - the other half of camping
I mentioned previously that the things which make camping different than just a normal vacation are eating and sleeping. Once you're fed and ready to ...
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Picking a Route
I knew when I was going to travel, and for how long. By coincidence, September 2018 starts on a Saturday and ends on a Sunday ...
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Learning to Camp
Before I head off across the country I needed to learn how to camp. I will just be car camping so I don't need to ...
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Before the Trip
What is he thinking? I am going to take a month off and visit some of our National Parks. I decided to camp as much ...