I had never been to the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho, but I had heard good things about the area. I was traveling with my van, with no campground reservations. I knew that most National Forests allow “Dispersed Camping,” meaning that if I could not find a site at a campground, I could stop at almost […]
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Susan and I took a trip to Tucson in Winter 2020. I had two posts on the trip, here, and here. One of the places we visited was Kartchner Caverns State Park, where we took a tour of the cave. It was a great tour, but no photographs were permitted. When planning this trip,
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I visited Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, based on a strong recommendation from my friend Suzanne. The Monument is adjacent to the Mexican border. The campground was very nice, and there were nice hikes and good bike rides. Lots of quail in the campground. I did the Arch Canyon hike. The cacti were terrific. There
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I had always wanted to see a spring training baseball game and when I was near Phoenix I took advantage of the opportunity. Fifteen teams play in ten stadiums in the Cactus League. Harvest Hosts is a program that allows campers to camp overnight at wineries, farms, breweries, and museums. I found a place called
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I camped in a variety of places on this trip. Sometimes I camped on BLM or Forest Service land, using the iOverlander app. When we had the travel trailer I had read online about the high quality of the campgrounds in Arizona State Parks. I also learned that reservations can be reserved a year in
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I loved traveling with our trailer with Susan, but I sold the trailer when Susan could not travel any longer. I wanted to continue to go camping and exploring, but now solo, and I decided to get a van. I got a four-wheel drive van, suitable for going off-road on the BLM land that is
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We camped with our friends Bruce and Joyce in Castle Valley, which is east of Moab UT, in our two travel trailers. This was socially distant camping – eating outside at separate tables and wearing masks when needed. We decided to have the two trailers antiparallel so that the doors would face each other, and
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We were supposed to go to Japan last April, and we were planning a trip to France that would have happened now, in September. Sorry, no travels. Right now the world won’t allow Americans to enter their countries. Despite all of the advertisements saying that they do “deep-cleaning,” we are apprehensive about airports, airplanes, hotels, and
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In May 2018 we went to a Trailer Rally in Alabama, and I talked about it in this post. Beforehand Susan really did not want to go, but in the end, we met a lot of nice people and had a really good time. So, we decided to go to another Fiberglass Trailer rally, this
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We drove from San Luis Obispo to Snow Canyon State Park, near St George, Utah. I had read really good things about this park online, but WOW, it is really amazing. BTW, the name comes from the Snow family, not the weather. Our first night it rained like crazy. We were very glad we were not