Adventures including visit(s) to National Park Site(s)
And…a Check Engine Light! Camped just 2 nights in Bakersfield before driving north on 99 to Visalia, where we spent 8 nights. That is 3 more days than originally planned, due to that Check Engine Light on Friday afternoon. At least it didn’t happen on a long drive, or towing, Read more…
More Ancient Dwellings & Historic State Parks We camped a bit south of Sedona, Arizona in Camp Verde, to be close to our intended National Park visits. We planned extra days, as we thought we would also visit Sedona and the Red Rocks Area of Arizona. We did make it Read more…
And more Cold and Snow! Who knew there was a Volcanic Field in northern Arizona, covering 1,800 square miles, containing 600 volcanoes? Not us! The San Francisco Volcanic Field is an area of volcanoes north of Flagstaff, on the southern boundary of the Colorado Plateau. The highest peak in the field is Humphreys Peak, Arizona’s highest, at Read more…
Stunning vistas, multi-colored crystals, an old Trading Post OH! And let’s not forget Route 66 and Dinosaur Fossils! That’s what we experienced here in Holbrook, Arizona. That, and hunkering down, staying an extra day (5 nights instead of 4), waiting for I-40 west to Flagstaff to open after the snow Read more…
Camping at another Texas State Park Texas may be almost 96% privately owned (an anomoly for the US), but the % we’ve seen in state parks (not to mention the 1.7% in National Parks) is very nice, including this campground in Davis Mountains State Park. There was no cell service Read more…
In Big Bend National Park (#60-Revisit) One of our favorite National Parks, so far (top 5?), a place in Far West Texas where night skies are dark as coal and rivers carve temple-like canyons in ancient limestone. Here, at the end of the road, hundreds of bird species take refuge Read more…
Two stops along the Mexican border… …with a few Border Control Checkpoints and wide fluctuations in temperatures. First stop, Laredo, where it was ~90, the day we arrived, but didn’t break 50 the 2 days we were there. Next stop, Del Rio, where it started warming up and even broke Read more…
Near the mouth of the Rio Grande Just east across the bridge from Port Isabel, we camped near the southern end of the island. South across the bay is Boca Chita, where one can find the Southeast point of Texas, the SpaceX Launch Site, and the mouth of the Rio Read more…
Looking across the lagoon at Padre Island About midway between downtown Corpus Christi and Padre Island National Seashore, the two places we visited from here, twice each in 4 days. It was pretty windy during our time in Corpus Christi, with temps that broke 80 the 1st 3 days, and Read more…
As deep as we’ll get this trip, outside Austin We camped a bit east of the Capitol of the Lone Star State, where the stars at night were big and bright. We took a couple of trips into Austin and a day trip 50+ miles west to the Hill Country, Read more…