Our visit was in June 2019, before Covid. Below is a description of each of the falls included in the video. Here’s the full YouTube video ! Or if you prefer, check out a few of the pics below. (But there’s a lot more in the video 🙂) FIREHOLE FALLS:We had just entered the park…
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
For a video version of this blog, click here to take you to the YouTube video. Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area is about 20 minutes outside of Las Vegas in the Mojave Desert and is on BLM (Bureau of Land Management) Land. If you have an America the Beautiful National Parks pass, you can…
West Yellowstone Campgrounds (2) Review!
Our first campground, Holiday RV Park (Click for link) (If you prefer the video version of this review, CLICK HERE!) A beautiful campground right on Lake Hegben! It’s about 10 minutes from the city of West Yellowstone, and about 12 miles from Yellowstone’s West Entrance. Open Memorial Day through the end of September (weather permitting), the…
Yellowstone-Part 1 – Campgrounds en route: Riverside Adventure Trails Bullhead City AZ, Ruby’s – Bryce Canyon NP, Century RV Park Ogden UT
Whenever planning a road trip, it’s not too difficult to find a place to stay at our ultimate destination (like a National Park), but finding a campground along our route is often “look at a map, close your eyes, and point!” I thought it might be helpful to share a few places we stayed along…
Tapo Canyon Campground and Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA
Simi Valley is in Southern California, just north of Los Angeles. The campground is small with just 16 sites, and our group occupied 12 of them. They have full hookups, but no cable, and no cell coverage whatsoever. Well, some said they were able to get a text to go through by standing near the…
Yosemite for Thanksgiving – November 2018
The day before Thanksgiving we headed out at 4:30am, hoping to beat the holiday traffic and the storm that was coming to Yosemite, stopping only for a potty break and Starbucks, then lunch. We arrived at Upper Pines (site 228) around 1:30 PM, the earliest we’ve ever made it! We also beat the storm. As…
24 Hour Trip to Yosemite & Hite Cove – April 2018
Our original plan was to stay in Monterey for 2 nights (see previous post), but when I realized my other family members were only staying 1 night, I proposed the idea to Scott of cancelling our 2nd night at the Lodge (no cancellation fee) and taking a spontaneous trip to Yosemite for one night. He…
A Short Trip to Monterey, CA
As I mentioned in my last blog, we planned to return to Monterey, CA in a few weeks for my sister-in-law’s Memorial Service. We decided not to take the trailer this time so we could travel more quickly, and chose instead to stay in a local hotel. I was also able to find a wonderful,…
Marina Dunes RV Resort – Marina, CA
In early April 2018 we got word that my sister-in-law, who had been diagnosed with ALS less than 6 months earlier, was deteriorating quickly and may not have long on this earth. We quickly packed up and drove up to Marina, CA with our trailer in tow, just Scott, me and our dog Mickey. We…
2018 Road Trip Last Stop – Yosemite!
After a quick breakfast in Tonopah, NV, we set out for Yosemite. The drive just to the border of NV/CA seemed like forever, but once we got across the border it wasn’t too long until we started seeing prettier scenery. As we entered Yosemite from the Tioga Pass entrance (9945 elevation) well, it just keeps…
2018 Road Trip Part 4 – Little Fish, 600 Clowns, & a Cemetery!
We had planned to try to squeeze in at least a short visit to Bryce Canyon National Park before we left Utah, but it would’ve been an hour each way, just to mostly drive through it. We were tired and decided we didn’t want to get up at the crack again just to do that….
2018 Road Trip Part 3 – Zion National Park & Panguitch Lake, UT
This will not be the normal, happy, “amazing!” blog. Though we did have some of those moments, we also had quite a few challenges. Before we get to that, the campground… On Wednesday, June 13, we drove from Moab to Panguitch Lake Campground in UT, a 5+ hour drive. There was a lot of nothing…
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