“Happy 70th Birthday Bruce Kahn!!” We arrived in Phoenix on Monday, October 5th, staying at the Pueblo El Mirage RV Resort & Country Club for a week. The timing worked out perfect. As we are so excited to be able to help Bruce celebrate his 70th birthday in Sedona. We drove D Beast (jeep) to…
North Rim of Grand Canyon
The North Rim offers a serene and enthralling Grand Canyon experience, more remote and less developed than the South Rim. It was a 2 hour drive from our RV Park in Virgin, Utah to the North Rim and it’s 40 miles from Jacob Lake to the North Rim Visitor Center. After we arrived we hiked…
Cedar Breaks National Monument
The Zion Park Scenic Byway (SR-9), is the road in and through Zion National Park, which never closes, except when we arrived because of a huge rock landslide. RV’s and buses must only travel this road when escorts are present due to the two tunnels and six tight switchbacks. Finally the road opened and we…
Narrows Hike – Zion NP
The north fork of the Virgin River, called “The Zion Narrows” is probably one of the most legendary canyons to hike in all of Zion. This was our next hike we chose to conquer in Zion but first we had to rent water boots, neoprene socks and a walking stick to be able to hike…
Zion NP and Angels Landing Hike
We are staying at the Zion River Resort and Campground in Virgin, about 10 miles from the entrance to Zion NP. This is a beautiful park and we are excited to be here for two weeks while we explore the Park. First, a little history about the Park, which has become one of our favorite…
Cody, Wyoming
We had heard so much about Cody, WY and its namesake “Buffalo Bill” Cody, that we had to take a drive there to see what it’s all about. We drove through Yellowstone NP stopping for pictures along the Yellowstone River, to the East entrance. President Theodore Roosevelt called the stretch of highway between Cody and…
Beartooth Scenic Highway
The Beartooth Scenic Highway opened to automobile travel in 1937, and is a National Scenic Byway, 68 miles in length winding through southwest Montana and northeast Wyoming. We left West Yellowstone early to avoid the traffic in Yellowstone and drove through the Park to the northeast entrance at Silver Gate where we stopped at the…
Heart Lake Loop Trail, Yellowstone NP
We were able to get our backcountry permits ahead of time for a small fee but at least we didn’t have to wake up early and stand in line, not knowing if we would be able to get the permits that we wanted. We did purchase 3 nights hiking around the Heart Lake area located…
Quake Lake, Montana
“it was a beautiful moonlit night, August 17, 1959, when one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in the Rocky Mountains struck the Madison River Canyon.” We drove to the Earthquake Lake Visitor Center, not far from West Yellowstone, to learn about the earthquake, see the landslide from the Vista Room and take a…
Yellowstone NP
We are staying at a beautiful park in West Yellowstone, the Yellowstone Grizzly RV Park, for three weeks while we explore all what Yellowstone NP has to offer for hiking and sightseeing. We visited Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces where mineral-laden hot water from deep beneath the Earth’s crust finds its way to the surface and…