Category: Travel

I’ve been to the Grand Canyon a few times, but this time was special because I got to share it with the kids, and they got to share it with their grandparents. We didn’t take very many pictures due to the crowds, but that made it even more special, since we were focusing on the…

I mentioned in a couple other posts that we ended up in this part of Arizona by accident. This National Monument had not been on our list, but since we were nearby in Camp Verde, we decided to go check it out. The monument itself is pretty neat. These cliff dwellings exist in a few…

Even after more than a week there, Flagstaff remains one of our favorite towns to spend time in. More than anywhere else in the country, we feel like these people are our people. And the town feels like our town. Unfortunately, the surrounding Coconino National Forest lands were completely closed due to wildfires in the…

We found ourselves in Sedona, unintentionally, because the nearby wildfires closed down the Cinder Hills in Coconino National Forest where we had intended to stay for a few days. Because of this, all of the Flagstaff area campgrounds were completely full, and the closest availability was down near Sedona in Camp Verde. We’re not much…

I’d like to start this post by saying that Dead Horse Point is so indistinguishable from the Grand Canyon that I have had serious trouble sorting the pictures now that I’m back at home. This place is absolutely spectacular, and it’s another example of an unscheduled stop that I really wish we had time to…

You know the place. It’s the iconic landscape of the American Southwest. It’s where Forrest Gump stopped running. We were only here for an overnight stop between Moab and Flagstaff, but we were graced with a herd of grazing sheep that wandered through our campsite, and shortly thereafter one of the most beautiful sunsets I’ve…

Rylan learned, during our stop in Moab, not to play in the dirt at RV parks. He came down with a nasty stomach virus that kept him confined to the camper for several days. To fill the void, the rest of us took an unscheduled trip to Goblin Valley State Park, and we were not…

We were unable to secure a reservation into Arches National Park, so we had to wait until after 6pm to get into the park. This meant we didn’t have much time to explore or do any long hikes. We did make it to the Delicate Arch trailhead and we were able able to see it…

At the top of the list of places that I personally wanted to go on this trip was the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. There’s beauty in the barren wilderness and the heat of the desert, and in the multicolored sandstone slickrock formations. And there are few better places to experience that beauty than…

After the hair-raising experience of towing the camper across the Rocky Mountains, we found ourselves in the beautiful town of Moab, Utah. Or, rather, a thirty minute drive North in Thompson Springs, Utah, since all of the campgrounds in town were fully booked. There were a ton of things to do in and around Moab,…