Valentines Day, 2025: Kanab, Utah. We braved the wintry weather for its annual hot air balloon festival, Balloons and Tunes. We had a travel buddy in Connor, our 3-year-old grandson, who had never seen balloons before. For Connor, and therefore also for us, it truly was “Love at...
Our three-month 2022 Summer Trip started in southern Utah, with a whole bunch of BEST FRIENDS! Best Friends Animal Society – home to 1,600 critters! Set on 6,000 acres in the Kanab Canyon, BEST FRIENDS‘ motto is “Save Them All,” and here they work to do just that...
St. George, Utah, is a beautiful city in the far southwest corner of the state, set within a valley with soaring red rocks surrounding it. One of its outstanding state parks is located just 10 miles north of the city. This park was established for the sole purpose of...
Utah’s Grand Staircase has been a bucket list item for all of its geologic treasures, natural beauty and remote location –- so remote, in fact, that it was one of the last places in the U.S. to be mapped. With almost a million acres of public lands, it was yet another great place to...
Capitol Reef is the least-visited of Utah’s National Parks, commonly referred to as “The Mighty Five,” Bryce, Zion, Arches, Canyonlands, and Capitol Reef, and the last one we had yet to visit. It’s an odd name, Capitol Reef, an amalgamation of “Capitol”...
Eastern Utah served up three of our most memorable, enjoyable and just downright FUN hikes in seven years of RV’ing and hundreds of trails! Here, I’ve asked ALL the important questions! LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON AllTrails Link Best for: Skinny People Not for:...
A quickly revised travel plan sent us through Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, with its immense watery playground, candy-colored cliffs, towering 1,000 foot walls, and non-existent crowds. But before that, we were in Island Park, Idaho, just a few miles from the state lines of both...
Day 1 (of 146!) dawned clear and bright. This was it … the start of our longest RV trip yet, one we are calling (tah-dah ….) THE GRAND LOOP! Questions abound. Would we dislike being gone that long? Would we get homesick? Would we kill each other...
Our final stop of the 2018 Summer Adventure was in a relatively unknown but truly remarkable southern-Utah destination known as Cedar Breaks National Monument. The uncrowded trails, cool temperatures, and colorful rock formations had us jumping for joy! It ALSO had us gasping for...
The Lucky Charm’s 2016 Summer Adventure may end up feeling more like a Winter Adventure as we head north two weeks earlier than usual, to MUCH colder weather: Destination Canadian Rockies! But first, a stop at Utah’s utterly astounding Bryce Canyon National Park...