6/13–6/20/21 Just want to see the pretty pictures? Click here. Sunset Campground Having left my sister and her boyfriend in Briceburg, I drove south. I passed through Fresno and then headed east to Kings Canyon National Park. A heat wave had just hit California, so I found a campsite at a higher elevation, within…
6/6–6/13/21 Just want to see the pretty pictures? Click here. Lower Lee Vining Campground With legs still sore from the previous day’s 31 miles in Ansel Adams Wilderness, I sat at a campground just outside of the small town of Lee Vining, CA, checking the speed of my phone’s data connection. A man pulled…
5/30–6/5/21 Just want to see the pretty pictures? Click here. Vaccinated I left Joshua Tree early Sunday morning and headed north for the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Along the way, I managed to fit in an appointment for my second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, which I was relieved to have. I’m not going…
5/23–5/29/21 Just want to see the pretty pictures? Click here. One Month I stood there at Lipan Point for a while, enjoying resting my legs at the end of my 3.5-day, 57.5-mile trip through the Grand Canyon, when finally I realized that today, May 23rd, marked exactly one month since I had left Pennsylvania…
5/16–5/23/21 Just want to see the pretty pictures? Click here. First Glimpse The sun slowly setting in the western sky, I stepped out of the car at Grandview Point and looked north. It was then that I caught my first glimpse of this geological wonder. The low angle of the sun cast bright light…
5/9–5/16/21 Just want to see the pretty pictures? Click here. Smithsonian Butte On Sunday I arrived at my BLM spot for the week: a tucked-away place, five miles down a bumpy dirt road, in the shadow of Smithsonian Butte. After some searching around, I found a good campsite, and was immediately awe-struck by the…
5/2–5/8/21 Just want to see the pretty pictures? Click here. Factory Butte & Capitol Reef National Park I decided to take a slightly more scenic route than Google’s choice from Moab to Bryce Canyon, stopping briefly at Factory Butte and driving through Capitol Reef National Park. Factory Butte is just a 6,302’ plat-topped peak…
4/25–5/2/21 Are you like millions of Americans who suffer from a hatred of reading? If so, click here to just see the pretty pictures. Arrival At last I arrived in Thompson Springs, Utah, on Sunday, April 25. I had booked a room at the Desert Moon Hotel & RV Park for a couple nights…
By late summer of 2019, I was feeling increasingly discontent with my work, life, and the imbalance between them. I had been working as a blacksmith/fabricator in Illinois, typically putting in 50+ hours per week at the shop, plus another 10+ hours per week working on my own projects (creative development, you could say)….