It’s a beautiful sunny day for a drive, we wanted to go over the McKenzie Pass on Rte 242, but the road was still closed. So we decided to go off the paved roads and take FS 1028 to the Skylight Cave. After some searching we finally found it only to realize that we need…
Smith Rock State Park, Oregon
On the road again driving through the beautiful countryside of central Oregon to Bend/Sisters Garden RV Resort, about 4 miles south of Sisters, Oregon and north of Bend. It is one of the most beautiful parks we have stayed with huge pine trees, paved pads, green grass between the sites and a pond with a…
Vale, Oregon – The Oregon Trail Murals
Today we drove RSherpa to Vale Oregon, located about 12 miles west of the Idaho border, on the Malheur River. We stayed at the Vale Trails RV Park for two nights. The community was the first stop in Oregon along the Oregon Trail, and was incorporated in 1889 as the Town of Vale. There are…
Craters of the Moon National Monument
On May 21st we drove Twin Falls, Idaho, where we stayed at the Anderson Camp RV Park just east of the city,for two nights. On Friday, despite bad weather, we drove in the jeep to Ketchum, Idaho, to revisit Sun Valley. We were surprised how different it looked in the summer without the snow. We walked…
Heber Valley, Utah
We left Moab to head north to Heber City, Utah, about a 4 hour drive arriving in plenty of time to enjoy the afternoon sunshine in this beautiful park, Mountain Valley RV Resort, looking across to the Wasatch Mountain Range. Heber City is a bedroom community for Orem, Provo, Park City and Salt Lake City,…
Backpacking in the Needles – Canyonlands NP
Day 1 Our backpacks are packed and ready to go, we leave at 8:30am to drive over 80 miles to The Needles District of Canyonlands NP to begin our hike for two days. We had to carry-in over 15 lbs of water because there is no water available in this area of the Park. We…
Arches National Park
Arches National Park, it has been 26 years since we visited this Park, and finally we are back exploring this amazing landscape. Only 4 miles north of Moab, containing the world’s largest concentration of natural stone arches, this 73,000 acre region has over 2000 of these “miracles of nature”. We started with a short hike…
Upper Colorado River Scenic Byway
Fisher TowersOur adventure today takes us on a driving tour of the Upper Colorado River Scenic Byway along SR 128. Just north of Moab on HWY 191 we turn off onto SR 128 and follow the southern bank of the Colorado River through a narrow steep gorge. Looking through the roof of the jeep up…
Dead Horse Point SP and Canyonlands NP
We left Durango yesterday in the rain and arrived at the KOA in Moab where we will be staying for a week. Today we are going to explore Canyonlands National Park and on the way we stopped to see Dead Horse Point State Park, situated on a high plateau at an elevation of about 6,000…
Pagosa Springs, Colorado
Today is a day of rest, so we decided to go to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, “Home of the World’s deepest geothermal hot springs”, about 40 miles drive north from our campsite in Bayfield. The Great Pagosa Hot Springs were first discovered by the Ute Indians, who named them “Pag Osah”, meaning “boiling water” or “healing…