Home on the Range
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… Read More
Photo Friday: Arches National Park, Utah
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… Read More
Into the Canyonlands
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… Read More
How I Came to Sing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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,… Read More
Photo Friday: Bonneville, Utah
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,… Read More
Salt Lake City: Friendliest People, Crappiest Weather
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… Read More