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Leaving the Enchanted Forest

Leaving the Enchanted Forest

Even as we are decamping here in Burlington Campground we are scouting out the best campsites for our next visit. Perhaps it will be 50, just adjacent to where we slept last night. It's got a great tree with a goose pen, meaning it has been hollowed out by a series of...

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Burlington 25

Burlington 25

We scored! Back in 2008 when we were here in The Redwoods we camped in a grove of redwoods in our little tent. We remembered that it was in one of the state parks along The Avenue of the Giants but we couldn't remember which campground. Yesterday we visited three...

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Chimney Tree Grill

Chimney Tree Grill

Trying to find a restaurant for a birthday dinner turned into an adventure in and of itself. It wasn't until the third try that we found folks we really wanted to serve us. For a while it seemed as if the answer to Paul Mc Cartney's query, "Will you still feed me,...

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Zion Canyon

Zion Canyon

Park Service Introduction Video Zion defies description. We were told it was very different from Bryce Canyon and that is so very true. Besides the fact that you get to view the canyon from below, the formations are so huge! There's so much here! And we have so little...

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On the Ridge!

On the Ridge!

Driving west on Utah's Scenic Byway 12, one of the most spectacular stretches of road there is. The section between Escalante and Boulder is superlative. As you drive along a narrow ridge, the views on either side are breathtaking. You feel compelled to be continually...

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Grand Staircase-Escalante

Grand Staircase-Escalante

See Park Video At the Cannonville Visitors Center the ranger suggested we travel Utah's Scenic Route 12 as today's adventure! The scenes are breathtaking. Around every corner we encounter more stark beauty. And we're having fun bantering with fellow travelers as well...

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Bryce Canyon

Bryce Canyon

See Park Video As we drove through the arches on Scenic Highway 12 where Utah Governor Dern once proclaimed that he believed in fairies, we were admitted to the fairyland that today is Bryce Canyon National Park. It's truly unlike anything we've ever seen. Yes, we can...

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Paunsaugunt Plateau

Paunsaugunt Plateau

It's just incredibly, this plateau created by gear seismic activity 16 million years ago. On the other side of this 8000+ foot high formation is the legendary Bryce Canyon. We came to this part of Utah to visit Bryce but now are discovering so many more possibilities.

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Vermillion Cliffs

Vermillion Cliffs

We'd heard about the Vermillion Cliffs when chatting with neighbors in North Carolina last year. Now we are within sight of them! The are composed of Navajo Sandstone laid down about 180 million years ago when this part of the world was at the bottom of a sea. The...

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GSENM

GSENM

We stopped at the Big Water Visitors Center for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and received a grand education! Since it's creation by President Clinton in the 1990's this park has been the site of extensive paleontological study and the discovery of...

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Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.

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Leaving Our Comfort Zone

Leaving Our Comfort Zone

One of the goals of our international travels is to expand our range to get ourselves out of our comfort experience things we’d only dreamed of before. Today we’re officially there in Paris! Adventures to follow!

The Florence Nightingale Museum 

The Florence Nightingale Museum 

By the end of the Crimean War Florence Nightingale had come to be known as the “Lady of the Lamp” for her competent and compassionate care of British soldiers. She went on to reform nursing education leading to nursing as a profession. The Florence Nightingale Museum in London tells the story of this remarkable woman.