The beauty of Colorado continues to amaze and delight, as we explore the nearby towns of Telluride, Ouray, and Ridgway. Everyone knows Telluride as the place for great winter skiing, but it’s also spectacular in summer! We’re enjoying Colorado with our Phoenix friends, Ryan and Erin Weed and Family, who were with us last summer as well in Yellowstone...
Traveling from the low-country of Cortez to the high-country of Silverton, CO at 9,350 feet elevation, was a slow-going affair, but in order to get to views like this … …you have to endure a lot of roads with signs like this: That’s the Lucky Charm! Roaring by at 10 MPH! The reward, however, is the charming town of Silverton, set into a...
With the mercury hitting 115 degrees in Phoenix, it was time to hit the road for our annual 6-week RV adventure in the Lucky Charm: 2,911 miles round-trip throughout Colorado with a side trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota! A trip we have chosen to name “Rocky Mountain Highs!” Day 1 had us driving to Mesa Verde National Park just outside...
February, 2015: Our first official “RV Rally“ — not just any rally, but the biggest organized rally in the nation! And being held right in our own backyard this year, at Phoenix International Raceway! How could we resist? This sucker is HUGE, with more than 6,000 attendees. The infield of the track had hundreds of exhibitor...
Our final destination of the six-week trip was Yosemite National Park — a trip Philip has dreamed of since he was a teenager and mooned over famous photographer Ansel Adams’ beautiful black and white photos of this gorgeous area. We had a full day to see a mere fraction of the park … but boy were we glad we got there when we did. Because...
Week Five: we left Redwoods and the coast, and headed inland to Redding in far-northern California. Redding is nothing to get excited about in and of itself, but the nearby Shasta-Trinity National Forest and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area make this location the perfect base for things that interest us: great biking trails, cool breezes, and the...
The fourth week of our 2014 Western Adventure had us heading for Redwoods National Forest, in the far northwestern tip of California. The redwoods have been around for 65 million years and are the tallest living things on earth. Can you say BIG BIG BIG? Of course, how could we feel anything but small, small, small! While in the area, we gleefully...
Halfway through the trip, we left Hood River, Oregon, and headed to the northernmost and westernmost point of our trip … Chinook, Washington. From there, Philip’s plan was to ride his bike all the way down the Oregon Coast over the course of seven days! Three weeks into our six-week adventure, and 1896 of 3718 miles have been “LOGGED” on...
On our way to Hood River, Oregon and the gorgeous Mt. Hood. Leaving West Yellowstone and driving west through Idaho and eastern Oregon was a real mind-blower. Either we had become spectacularly lost, or God had a bad case of ADHD when creating these areas. How could the topography change so dramatically every 30 minutes through just a few hundred...
As an Arizona native, Fourth of July in Phoenix has always been a non-event for me. The jello salad melts immediately, the potato salad’s always at high risk for salmonella poisoning, friends look weird when viewed through a wavy heat haze. Everything is just **too darn hot**!! That’s why we were so excited at the prospect of a full-scale, old...