We’re sleeping in the trailer about 95 percent of this trip. It’s so comfortable, we don’t really need stints in hotel rooms to break up six weeks of camping (if you can even call sleeping in a pop-out bed in a trailer “camping”). However, there are a couple of resorts along the way that I’ve [...]
Photo Friday: Arches National Park, Utah
June 3, 2011 By 37 Comments
I had been at Arches once before, in 2002, driving a huge van of campers from my ranch where I worked, Orme, in Arizona. I have memories of long games of Mad Libs and singalongs to some song about tomcats (called “Look Me Up” by BR549, my co-counselor Addy just reminded me on Facebook!) but [...]
Into the Canyonlands
May 31, 2011 By 41 Comments
The purpose of our six-week road trip across the West was twofold: 1) To see many of the states and national parks neither of us had seen and 2) to visit places that were hard or expensive to fly into and, thus, only readily accessible by car. I’ve been asked why we aren’t hitting up [...]
How I Came to Sing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
May 29, 2011 By 43 Comments
This is a story of how the Internet can make what you didn’t realize was—but, in fact, is—your wildest dream come true. While in the throes of planning our time in Salt Lake City, I was emailing with girl-about-town Heidi, who said if we were around on a Thursday night we should stop by Temple [...]
Photo Friday: Bonneville, Utah
May 27, 2011 By 29 Comments
The plan originally was to drive from Elko, Nevada to Salt Lake City, Utah without stopping, but that’s until I saw photos of Bonneville Salt Flats on Heidi’s blog. I needed to go there. Prior to researching for this trip, I’d never even heard of Bonneville before; I’m not big on racing—have never actually seen [...]
Salt Lake City: Friendliest People, Crappiest Weather
May 25, 2011 By 30 Comments
In the beginning, Salt Lake City was meant to be merely a stopover point to driving from California to Utah’s Canyonlands, to break up the drive a bit. But one day quickly turned into four, thanks to Heidi being the city’s greatest ambassador and all the great tips she sent us to activities in the [...]
