Travel

After spending several nights camping, we were so grateful to be invited by the Best Western Plus Canyonlands in Moab to spend a few nights.  Rolling up to the hotel, we were pleasantly surprised.  It was much nicer than any other Best Western we had ever seen or stayed at. The rooms were great – […]

Leaving Capitol Reef National Park felt a little bittersweet…all of the fruita, all of the pie…sigh.  But, the show must go on, and so we did.  We started our drive out of Capitol Reef and towards Moab with a planned stop along the way (another great suggestion by a fellow camper). We had never driven […]

After a goods nights sleep, we both woke up feeling ready to explore Capitol Reef.  Luckily we had been tipped off by a fellow camper, so we knew exactly where our first stop would be.  About 30 feet from our camping site sat the Gifford House. No longer used as a house, but as a […]

Having escaped the snow and cold, we were more than ready for some milder temperatures.  As we drove into more of a desert climate, we enjoyed the scenery that accompanied it. We decided to break up our driving for the day with a hike, so we stopped at the Calf Creek Recreation Area to hike […]

After waking up to pretty frigid temperatures and finding our tent a bit frostbitten, we decided to pack up camp, explore Bryce Canyon, and then move on to sunnier destinations.  We hurried ourselves over to the Visitor Center to get some advice on which hikes would be best for us…only to find out that since […]

After finishing our Narrows expedition, we decided on one more hike for Zion.  The decision was actually quite simple – since I am pretty afraid of heights, Angels Landing was out of the question, but Observation Point sounded doable.  But in all honestly, I felt a little bit like a horse who needed blinders on […]

Being thoroughly exhausted from the Narrows, we decided to celebrate our hiking success with a little happy hour at our campsite.  We didn’t have a whole lot of options, but we were able to throw together a nice antipasti and rustle up some local beers.  And the view wasn’t too bad either!

If you are going to Zion National Park, you are probably going to hike the Narrows.  But maybe ‘hike‘ isn’t the right word…what exactly would you call walking upstream in a river for several miles?  Well, whatever it is, if you are going to do the Narrows, you first stop will be the Zion Adventure […]

We just got back from a great road trip to Utah.  In fact, I should be more clear.  We just got back from a road trip to Utah where we camped and hiked!  Honestly, I don’t think that I ever pictured myself being the camping type (although there was a hotel mixed in the middle […]

Trip planning and prepping is something that I really love to do.  The excitement of thinking about what we will be doing and where we will be going always gets my heart pumping.  But I also know that planning isn’t for everyone.  A few times recently, friends and family have commented on how our trips […]