Editor’s Note: This is my sixth and final installment on my spring break road trip saga. If you’ve been following along, thanks for sticking it out! The sun began to creep over the Providence Mountains at 5:30am and I awoke to our last day in the desert. Hard to believe the week had already passed…
Category: National Parks/Public Lands
Spring Break Road Trip Day 5: Paradise Lost, An Angel and Mojave Night Life
The wheelbarrows started passing by at about 5am with campers pushing their gear to the corral at the front of the campground to eventually be loaded onto horses for the trek out of the canyon. Even with ear plugs, that is what I heard first when the sky began to brighten the next day in the Havasupai…
Spring Break Road Trip Day 3: Lyin’ Down At Horseshoe, Tiger Beetles, and Bear Right At Wild Cows, Oh My!
Editor Note: If you thought Day 2 was a long day, get ready for Day 3. If you have only been following along to get to our visit to Supai and Havasupai Falls, today is when that adventure itself begins with camping at the trailhead. But there was a whole day of fun before we…
Spring Break Road Trip Day 2, Part 2: Queen of Bryce, Hoodoo Groot, and A Tarp
When I left you in Spring Break Road Trip Day 2,Part 1: Angel of Zion and More Weeping, we were leaving Zion National Park an driving towards Bryce National Park. We drove out of Las Vegas about 24 hours ago and our goal is to hit as many fun things as we can before our…
Spring Break Road Trip Day 2, Part 1: The Angel of Zion and More Weeping
As you can imagine, I was up bright and early today. Nothing over my head to block the brightening of the sky and sheer anticipation (dread?) of what the rest of my trip will bring. Do these things come in threes? I had told Denise the night before that I wanted to get up as early…
Spring Break Road Trip, Day 1: A Wave Alternative, 4 Wheeling In A Subcompact and My First Night Ever Cowboy Camping
Our trip began with a plane ride into McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada. There is just something about flying in Vegas that is unlike other airports. All the glittery people and cacophony of slot machines. The simultaneous release of breath that a vacation has started and the holding of that breath thinking about…