I spent a single gusty, dusty night in Goosnecks State Park. My tent shook all night long like it was Tina Turner’s fringed skirt. I woke up through the night with dust in my eyes, sand crunching between my teeth, a gritty sheen of Utah shellacked on my skin. But, man, was it pretty! Goosenecks is surrounded…
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Monument Valley National Park
I had my heart set on Monument Valley from the beginning. It was July when I set out on my “road trip to end all road trips” (until the next road trip, that is.) July in the Southwest kind of sounded like insta-sunburn while sitting in an oven. I had to wait. I kept myself…
Chaco Canyon National Historical Park
Chaco Canyon was an amazing place to be. More ruins than you can imagine, and if you hike the Peublo Alto trail, you can see almost all of the ruins from the top of the Mesa. Pueblo Bonito was the largest of the great houses and the center of the Chacoan world. It was lived in from…
Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde. What can I say? That we have the opportunity to stand in a home built by Ancestral Pueblo people built in the mid-1100’s and look down the same canyon is…I don’t have the words. What’s the world that encompasses wonder, curiosity, admiration, humility, reflection, joy, stillness, connection, respect and energy? What word do…
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Black Canyon of the Gunnison is impressive. There is just something about canyons. By this point in my trip – about 3 months in – I had seen a few. Black Canyon of the Gunnison is a straight up stunner. “…no other canyon in North America combines the depth, narrowness, sheerness and somber countenance of…
Rocky Mountain National Park
I entered Rocky Mountain National Park at the Grand Lake Entrance Station on the west side. My campsite was aaaall the way across the park at the Moraine Park campground on the east side. That meant that I had to cover nearly the whole length of the 48 mile Trail Ridge Road, cross Milner Pass at 10,758…
Cisco, UT – The Creepy Ghost Town Everyone Talks About
I was driving through eastern Utah on the way to Carbondale, CO when I saw the sign for Cisco pop up. I was in the mood to stop and walk. This was the perfect opportunity. I read about Cisco in my recent past; probably while doing route research for the road trip. Everyone who had…
Where to? Why not? 