Category: 11,000 MILES

After weeks of driving, exploring, and introducing Rylan and Roman to their country, Tina and the kids had had enough of spending their summer days watching the miles tick by in the truck. For them, the adventure was over and it was time to go home and get ready for a new school year. With…

In the moment, we thought nothing of the distance; but in retrospect, this was a terrifyingly long way from Florida. The grand finale of our trip was the farthest point from home, in Wyoming. Yellowstone is as expected – beautiful, remote, serene. Okay, I lied about the “serene” part. During the height of the season…

On the long trip from Kanab to the Sacramento, Tina and I stopped here in the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine and Mount Whitney to do some legitimate boondocking for the first time on this trip. I’ve been here before, and it’s one of my favorite places in the country for it’s solitude and beauty.

We didn’t spend a lot of time in Death Valley, since it was one of the hottest days on record. We did our best to safely tow the trailer up Death Valley Pass toward Lone Pine. In retrospect, this was probably the dumbest route we could have taken, and it was the only part of…

The road from Kanab to Alabama hills was interrupted by Sin City, so we decided to stop and spend a night at the Bellagio. It was nice to get out of the heat for a day, and did I mention that the kids tagged along with Silvana and Don for this leg of the journey?…

The next stop for us was Kanab, in Southern Utah, at Dark Sky RV Campground. If you’ve been following along with these posts, you’ll notice I haven’t called out any of our campgrounds by name. Most of them are pretty much the same, with the basic amenities – electricity, water supply, and a place to…