This past Saturday morning we headed up to Bassi Falls up in the Sierra Nevada. The drive was pleasantly short at about 60 miles. We knocked out the majority of the driving from home with our Friday Night Halfway to FolsomWhile Bassi Falls was the main event for the day, getting there was part of the fun. The journey is part of the adventure. This ( Read more... )

Friday night was Friday Night Halfway in Folsom so it follows that Saturday morning was Saturday The Rest of the Way. Nevermind that after driving 141 miles last night with 60 left this morning means we were well over halfway; "We're slightly over 70% there" doesn't scan very well and certainly wouldn't have made Bon Jovi's 1986 song "Livin' on a ( Read more... )

Colorado Travelog #30
Cimarron, CO - Thursday, 7 Jul 2022, 3pm

Although we left Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park just after noon today after a bunch of short hikes this morning we're not done with it. We left the south rim. We're driving around to the north rim! The canyon is so deep this is one of those cases where the opposite rims are ( Read more... )

Incline Village, NV - Mon, 5 Aug 2019, 11:30pm

Today we drove 460 miles back across the Loneliest Road in America (US 50 in Nevada) - and that was after an amazing and tiring hike among the peaks of Great Basin National Park. And it was only a few days after driving 500+ miles on The Loneliest Road the other way! And when I say "we" I mean me. ( Read more... )

From Saturday, 3 Aug 2019

In my previous blog I wrote about the epic drive on "The Loneliest Road" from Fallon to Ely, Nevada. We left Ely after our afternoon snack at 4:20pm. We thought we were close to done for the day. But we double-checked the hours of the visitor center at Great Basin and realized we could just make it there before it closed ( Read more... )

From Saturday, 3 Aug 2019

In my previous blog I wrote about the first leg of our long roadtrip- 160 miles from Auburn, CA to Fallon, NV, where we joined US-50. East of here is where route 50 earns its moniker as "The Loneliest Road in America ( Read more... )

Saturday morning we set off on a drive that would run 520 miles before the day was done. For much of it we'd traverse US-50, "The Loneliest Road in America", before turning off for the tiny town of Baker, Nevada, and then to a remote lodge in the mountains for the night.

Though the drive today would be long it'd be even longer if we hadn't driven ( Read more... )

Last week I wrote that we'd already planned our next trip, to the Channel Islands, a scant day after returning home from the previous trip. Well, our next trip is still five days away but last night already we planned our next-next trip!

We've decided to extend our 5-day trip to Lake Tahoe in early August to 9 days. With the extra time we'll visit ( Read more... )

Carson City, NV - Sat, 8 Jun 2019, 3:30pm

After hiking at Sand Harbor and doing a bit of other sightseeing close to our condo in Incline Village we decided to drive over the mountain and down to Carson City, Nevada. Hawk had already identified a few bead stores there on her beadfinder app, and I figured, "Sure, why not?" We'd drive one scenic ( Read more... )

Sand Harbor, NV - Sat, 8 Jun 2019, 12:15pm

When we visited Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park at Sand Harbor today we didn't just visit the vistor center (previous blog). We hiked the trails, of course ( Read more... )