Our trip criss-crossing California has brought across many of the places where the nations vegetables are grown. It’s clear that the industry relies on two things, irrigation and cheap labor, both of which are quite concerning. Driving through the valley’s it is clear it is dry here, everything that isn’t a field is brown, bare and dusty. Tractors and semis churn up...
We hit the Pacific first at Bodega Bay, we struggled in this little town to find a spot to park with the RV, but after stopping we found the couple restaurants not exactly what we were looking for, they had seafood, but that was not the star. So we resigned ourselves to eating sandwiches and headed out to Bodega Head for a view during our lunch. What we stumbled on...
We had some time to visit Napa Valley which was a nice changeup from the national park scene. We got a campsite just outside of the town of Napa, as options are few and far between. The campground was quite nice, and reachable by Uber, so we were able to explore town a bit. The tasting rooms in town seemed more like bars, where it seemed more normal to just get a...
Yosemite, Sequioa and Kings Canyon After our Death Valley foray we headed into the Sierra Nevada. Not many roads lead across this rugged land, so we rounded them on the south side. We made a stop in Kernville Brewery to break up the drive, neither the food or the beer was good, so I wouldn’t recommend it. North of Kernville there are dozens of small campgrounds along...
It all started when I was late getting back to the RV in Arches National Park, I ran into this Irish guy who was quite talkative. He was clearly set up to take photos, and waiting for the time of day to get just the right light. He told me about his time getting lost in Bryce Canyon and staying over night because he had stayed out for the evening light...
Sitting outside after dark, listening to a fellow camper giving an impromptu concert, the warm breeze cooling us from the 90 degree day, I can’t imaging a better setting. Death Valley is a unique place, coming west from Las Vegas, after a short climb up one side of mountains, you descend, and keep descending, long past you think you have dropped below sea level. At...
The second half of our Utah adventure started in Capitol Reef NP, this one hadn’t been on my radar, but it happened to be along the route so we decided to check it out for a day. The “reef” is a result of an uplifting of the crust, so on the east you have gentle sloping hills, to steep cliffs facing the west. The main attraction here are the canyons that were cut...
We have been travelling for the past two weeks through southern Utah, canyon country. I have had the National Parks of Bryce Canyon, Zion and Arches on my list for quite some time, but along the way we added a few more national parks and a couple National Forests to the list of must see places. I wasn’t prepared for the amount of sights and variety of each of the...
We happened to catch some early winter weather, with lows in the 20s inside the park. With the previous heater issue still a question mark, and not knowing how the tanks would hold up to freezing temperatures, we took the conservative approach of staying in a campground with electric. So we did two nights near Cody, Wyoming which I thought was just outside of the...
Oddly enough we ended up in Ten Sleeps exactly 10 sleeps from setting out on our journey. Ten sleeps was named because that was the halfway point between Fort Laramie and Yellowstone that was a journey of ten sleeps for the Sioux Indians. We ended up here after avoiding the cold of the Bighorn National Forest, we originally intended to stay up in the Bighorn...