Category: National Parks

Outside of Houston

February 10, 2017

This morning I was in the men’s room of the Walmart in Cleveland, TX.  I didn’t want to be there but you do what you have to do.  (For the record, this is Traci not Scott…. ) When we left San Antonio, we expected to travel an hour or 2, find a nice state park…

Padre Island National Seashore

January 31, 2017

The kids and I got the boot at 9:00am. Scott was antsy to start work and the kids were being… you know… kids. I threw together our beach bag, snacks and bathing suits and headed to the beach. What more could you want on a nice January day than sun and sea.  Besides, what trouble…

White Sands National Monument

January 26, 2017

Making our way through southern New Mexico has been a trip!  We aren’t used to border patrol check points.  The first time we pulled up to one Scott had no idea what was happening and neither did I.  We alternated between, “In America?!?!!?” and “This doesn’t happen in America… this could be a trap.  Be…

Joshua Tree National Park

November 27, 2016

Leaving LA we headed for Joshua Tree National Park for no other reason than we had no where else we wanted to go, it’s in the direction of AZ, and Yosemite is just too cold right now. It really is a @$%$# phenomenal lifestyle. I highly recommend it. We used compendium.com and freecampsites.net (we are…

Four Out of Five

October 27, 2016

There are 5 national parks in Utah. We managed to hike in 4 of them. I’ll take it – 4 out of 5 is pretty decent. But let’s call a spade a spade: we did 1 day hikes in Bryce and Zion and I wouldn’t really call our time in Capitol Reef legendary. We left…