Big Bend, the second chapter
Big Texas Skies at Big Bend After our bad campground in an interesting little town, we headed to a primitive site inside the park. We had reservations for a [...]
Big Bend, part 1
The Park that Texas Claims is So Big, it Needs Two Posts We came into Big Bend expecting it to be “alright,” even though so many people had told [...]
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Beneath the Guadalupe Mountains Carlsbad Caverns National Park is situated next-door, or more accurately, underneath Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Despite their close proximity, Guadalupe Mountains National Park calls Texas [...]
Guadalupe Mountain National Park
Guadalupe Mountains National Park We left Las Cruces, NM and shortly thereafter we entered west Texas. Earlier in our trip we had driven across the big open spaces of [...]
Sledding in the Desert
White Sands: the 63rd US National Park White Sands was upgraded from a National Monument to a National Park early this year…just a few weeks before our planned visit. [...]
Saguaro National Park: a Tale of Two Deserts
Shelley comes to visit! We were all excited about Tucson because we’d get to visit Saguaro National Park, but even more because we would get to share how awesome [...]
An Oasis in the Desert
An Oasis in the Desert The drive from Las Vegas to Joshua Tree is about three hours, and two hours and 45 minutes of that is through the middle [...]
Life in Death Valley
Death Valley is Very Much Alive We headed to Death Valley from the Alabama Hills with mixed expectations. Wyatt expected it to be great because he'd heard it was [...]
Pinnacles National Park
Pinnacles National Park, what a treat! Pinnacles National Park is one of a handful of parks that wasn’t on our original itinerary but as we got into our trip [...]
More Big Trees…and the Grandest Canyon
More Big Trees…and the Grandest Canyon of them all Looking at the forecast and the mileage between our next few stops, we realized it would be wise for us [...]