As luck would have it, I knew a place to spend the week before making the leap over the Rocky Mountains. Rabbit Valley BLM is a large area of land straddling the Utah and Colorado state line. I have over-nighted here a few times in the past, but this time...
The original plan was to stay two weeks in the Zion National Park area, but family issues in Colorado have somewhat expedited our arrival. Although not super urgent, that need may arise at any moment, so a closer proximity to Colorado led us to take off a week early and...
We had other plans for boondocking near Zion National Park, but when Kerri found a few Instagram-buddies parked nearby at a totally unknown location (to me), we headed that direction. The Virgin Dam BLM area overlooks the Virgin River and the Dam below, with 360 degrees of desert awesomeness surrounding...
Ah Zion. Zion is one of my most favorite parks. I visited for my first time in 2010 the first year Big Blue and I got on the road. It was only a quick one-day trip but the fall colors blew my mind then and it is still the first...
Our week in the Mono Lake area has come to an end. A good week it was, with a good helping of hiking, sight seeing, and even socializing. Our week was spent with the most amazing view of Mono Lake on one side, the Eastern Sierras on another, and a...
Just over two years ago, I started following Kerri on Instagram (at the behest of two friends… I swear, I wasn’t stalking or anything) and soon afterwards commented on an image she posted of Bodie State Historic Park. That comment, although short, was our first interaction, and something we both...
Now that we are back out in the wild though, the outdoor activities are back on… so on our very first day we set out to a highly recommended hike around Convict Lake. The Lake got its name thanks to some escaped convicts from Carson City back in the 1871....
At the end of October last year, nearly 6 full months ago, Kerri and I pulled back into California from the Oregon side. We spent the holidays catching up with family, met up in Southern California with friends, then took to Baja for three months. Now that we have returned...
We are back in gold country to visit Kerri’s parents for a week before heading over the Sierra’s. In our last visit here we did not get out all that much. What little exploring I did (I say I as Kerri has been everywhere in this area) consisted of the...
Yea, we are back in Northern California, specifically to drop Big Blue off in storage for the rest of the year. A quick visit to my family, then off we went to Bodega Bay to get in one final week of ocean-life before heading inland for many months. Porto Bodega...
