Tag Archives: Camping
Oh Canada! Glacier National Park
Last summer we camped for two nights in Glacier National Park, British Columbia. In many ways camping here was much more enjoyable than the more popular nearby Banff National Park. […]
Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park
The Grand Canyon Fall 2013 photos
During our Cross Country road trip last year, we stopped in The Grand Canyon in late September for two wonderful, albeit cold, nights in the North Rim campground. Going mid-week […]
The government shutdown forced a change in plans
Smoky Mountains for a night We left Mobile Monday the 30th at 8am en route for the Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee. As everyone in the US who’s watched […]
Tourette Syndrome in Glacier National Park
We just finished a four day three night backcountry trip through Glacier National Park. After nearly 5,000 feet of elevation gain, an incident with poison ivy, and being drenched in […]
3 Parks in One- Olympic National Park
Olympic National Park is a g 922,651 acres park on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington. The NPS website boasts “Three Parks in One”, and while I tend to take these […]
Ben the Good Samaritan- An Environmental Rant
A month into our road trip and we’ve visited 3 States, 3 National Parks, and 8 State Parks. While the scenery has varied somewhat there have remained two constants: people […]
Olympic National Park
Hello from Rialto Beach on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. This area was made famous by the Twilight series, but thus far we haven’t seen any vampires 🙂
The Four Seasons of campgrounds: North Pines, Yosemite
After “roughing it” in the woods for 4 days Ben and I headed down to Yosemite Valley to meet our friends at North Pines Campground for the weekend. We arrived […]
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