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2014 West then East

Grand Staircase-Escalante

Grand Staircase-Escalante

See Park Video At the Cannonville Visitors Center the ranger suggested we travel Utah's Scenic Route 12 as today's adventure! The scenes are breathtaking. Around every corner we encounter more stark beauty. And we're having fun bantering with fellow travelers as well...

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Bryce Canyon

Bryce Canyon

See Park Video As we drove through the arches on Scenic Highway 12 where Utah Governor Dern once proclaimed that he believed in fairies, we were admitted to the fairyland that today is Bryce Canyon National Park. It's truly unlike anything we've ever seen. Yes, we can...

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Paunsaugunt Plateau

Paunsaugunt Plateau

It's just incredibly, this plateau created by gear seismic activity 16 million years ago. On the other side of this 8000+ foot high formation is the legendary Bryce Canyon. We came to this part of Utah to visit Bryce but now are discovering so many more possibilities.

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Vermillion Cliffs

Vermillion Cliffs

We'd heard about the Vermillion Cliffs when chatting with neighbors in North Carolina last year. Now we are within sight of them! The are composed of Navajo Sandstone laid down about 180 million years ago when this part of the world was at the bottom of a sea. The...

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GSENM

GSENM

We stopped at the Big Water Visitors Center for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and received a grand education! Since it's creation by President Clinton in the 1990's this park has been the site of extensive paleontological study and the discovery of...

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The Ramble Resumes

The Ramble Resumes

After getting ourselves unpacked and repacked, we joined Bill for coffee at Las Chivas then re-provisioned at the market at The Agora. We bid Bill goodbye then headed north on US-285. We first planned to camp at Navajo Lake State Park, but wanted to log a few more...

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Amarillo Memories

Amarillo Memories

We've been here! Forty-one years ago on our honeymoon, the two of us camped at the KOA in Amarillo. Even before that Karen's family camped here in December 1965. They were traveling home to St Petersburg FL from a Christmas visit with family in Salt Lake City UT in a...

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A Low Key Day

A Low Key Day

Went for our 8.5 mile round trip walk to the coffee shop, so we all logged more than 20K steps today. Other than that, it was a day for staying close to home and getting ready for tomorrow's departure.

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Solstice Sunrise

Solstice Sunrise

It's the beginning of the longest day of the year! It's fun knowing that we'll celebrate it in Santa Fe. This evokes memories of a visit here at winter solstice when to go for a walk we had to bundle up against the cold and snow. Instead of that, today we will be...

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Cleopatra and the Flapper

Cleopatra and the Flapper

After our 18K step round trip walk to the coffee shop this morning and showers, the day for the three of us was centered around errands and communications with family members. We needed to locate a particular flapper (the plumbing kind) and a specialty battery for one...

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Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.

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Tromsø

Tromsø

A quick walking tour of Tromsø and and a great visit to Macks Ølbryggeri, the northernmost brewery in the world, gave us more insight into the culture of Norway.

Brugge

Brugge

It was an unexpected but delightful quick visit to the Historic Brugge City Center, a UNESCO World Heritage site.