Heading home from Vermont
Monday we awoke to a rainy morning. Our plan was to hike Haystack Mountain which is in Southern Vermont, about an hour closer to home. ...
Blog: 2022
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Heading to Vermont
We decided to have a long weekend in Vermont. It's one of the few states neither of us has been to, and Val was able ...
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Road Trip 2022: By the Numbers
I like to finish each road trip with a little introspection and some things to remind myself to think about for next time. One thing ...
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High Trestle Bridge
Gas is much more expensive this trip than previous ones. If you are wondering, I have paid anywhere from about $4.30 to about $5.30 a ...
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Starting Homeward
Today we started home. It will take three days to get back if everything goes as planned. It is once again hard to say what ...
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Theodore Roosevelt
It was windy this morning. Really windy. We got up at some time in the morning, but our phones couldn't agree exactly what time it ...
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Devils Tower
Today we left the Hipcamp site at 7:00 after sleeping in a little (to 6:30). We needed a little extra rest, and it was so ...
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Custer's Critters and the Badlands
We decided to start the day with a trip around the Wildlife Road. We saw Pronghorn Antelope, Buffalo, prairie dogs, and a lot of different ...
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Custer State Park
Today we started by taking the Needles Highway across the park. Since we were early in the morning, we got to see a lot of ...
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Custer's First Stand
Today is a repositioning day. We got up a bit later than usual, letting ourselves catch up on sleep. We also ate the "free" continental ...
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Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain is the big park on this trip, so we decided to stay four nights and have three days of hikes in the park. ...
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Maroon Bells
One of the premier hikes in Colorado is Maroon Bells, which was brought to my attention for this trip by my friend Chris who lived ...
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison
We started the morning with the Dunes hike that was postponed due to weather the night before. We hit the dunes early (driving this time), ...
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Great Sand Dunes National Park
Another early morning got us on the road before any traffic. We have had great luck (perhaps augmented with time zone changes) at waking up ...
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Hot Springs
Today was mostly spent as a driving day as we head west. We drove down to Memphis and west across Tennessee. Our planned walking stop ...
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Mammoth Cave
Today was all about cave tours. Mammoth Cave is the biggest cave system in the world, and the National Park has about a dozen or ...
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Heading West
Today we set off. We left the house at 7:00 AM heading for Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. The route took us acroos PA ...
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Planning the trip
I started planning the trip in early February by picking the key points of the trip. This trip is once again centered around National Parks ...
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Another Road Trip
I'm going to try another one of my road trips. All my camping gear has been dormant for the duration of the Covid, but this ...