I first visited Eugene (pronounced /yoo-JEEN/) in 1997 while driving around the country, I’ve told that story before in my post about the Oregon Country Fair. But the short version is that we happened to be driving through Eugene…
Day 546 – West Coast Road Trip – Southern Oregon Coast
June 11, 2021
Driving Highway 101 up the southern Oregon coast. 201 miles From Klamath, CA to Florence, OR. For the third part of our west coast road trip we continued north along 101 along the southern Oregon coast. It’s similar to…
Day 540 – West Coast Road Trip – Northern California Redwoods
June 4, 2021
Driving Highway 101 north through The Avenue of the Giants and Redwood National Park. 153 miles From Leggett to Klamath, CA. After the first leg of our west coast road trip up highway 1 from San Francisco, we connected…
Day 538 – West Coast Roadtrip – Northern California Coast
May 27, 2021
Driving Highway 1 from San Francisco to its northern terminus. 204 miles From Muir Beach to Leggett, CA. From Visalia we drove to Petaluma just north of San Francisco and camped at another KOA. Coming down towards the coast…
Day 529 – A Desert Casino on the edge of Nevada.
May 20, 2021
Stuck at a tiny casino in the middle of nowhere a few yards from the Nevada border on the edge of Death Valley. High wind warnings flash on my phone. We can track the destruction along the entire path…
Day 529 – Death Valley National Park
May 14, 2021
From Page, AZ, we drove back down through Las Vegas and up 95 to Amargosa Valley, turning left towards a Casino/Hotel/RV Park a few yards from the Nevada/California border. Home base for our visit to Death Valley for a…
Day 527 – Vermillion Cliffs, Horseshoe Bend (Page, AZ)
May 7, 2021
From Zion National Park we headed over the Kaibob plateau in a full snowstorm and into the Vermillion Cliffs Scenic Byway (89a) towards Page, AZ. Ominous banks of clouds loomed like celestial beasts grazing on the red dirt expanse….
Day 525 – Zion National Park – (Springdale, UT)
May 1, 2021
The area surrounding Zion National Park was originally inhabited around 8000 BCE by groups of the native Anasazi, or Ancestral Puebloans, who were also responsible for the more famous cliff dwellings found throughout the four-corners region of southeastern Utah,…
Day 524 – (Desert Roadtrip Part 1) – Driving the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas
April 29, 2021
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive. …” And suddenly there was a terrible…
Day 464 – The city of Joshua Tree, CA, and the high desert.
April 22, 2021
We stayed in the Joshua Tree area for two months, the first month in a house in Yucca Valley, the larger town to the west, and a month in a small house a couple of blocks from the heart…