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…
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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…
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…
2018 Road Trip – Part 2 – Canyonlands & Arches National Parks
The Moab Valley RV Resort Campground is a nice place in a great location with full hookups, essential for us in the summer heat of Moab. Each site has a little bit of grass, and the campground also has laundry facilities, Wifi (though unfortunately it was down the entire time we were there), showers, and…
2018 Road Trip – Part 1 – Grand Canyon & Four Corners Monument
We’ve learned that if the GPS estimates 8 hours, add at least 1.5 to 2 more for bathroom stops, lunch, and the fact that travel is always slower when you’re pulling a trailer. So, when GPS estimated travel to the Grand Canyon would be close to 10 hours, we decided to find a place to…
From Pop Up to Minnie Winnie!
For two years we have loved camping in our little 1994 Coleman Destiny Royale pop up trailer (ironically we named her “Minnie”), but we started thinking about getting a hard-sided trailer. We were a little weary of the set up and were hoping to find something that would be easier to set up and could…