Our daughter spent the summer of 2023 working as staff at the Boys Scouts of America’s Philmont Scout Ranch High Adventure base in Cimarron, NM. As soon as we heard she was planning that, Reedi and I planned a trip around visiting her. We started our trip by flying to Albuquerque, NM, then driving to Sante Fe to meet with Ari. We spent two days in the Sante Fe/Taos/Cimarron areas eating and exploring this section of New Mexico, which is…
Many of the trips we’ve taken over the last few years include SUV camping. As in, Reedi and I pack a mattress, a cook kit, an SUV tent, and some other items and hit the road in our SUV. No hotels, no reservations. Sometime we fly to a location and rent an SUV to camp in. During this trip in January of 2023, we travelled to nearby Dunn’s Falls Park in Enterprise, Mississippi, then to Clarkco State Park in Quitman,…
In August of ’22, we made a trip to the Pacific Northwest. We flew into Lake Tahoe, made our way west to Northern California, then spend a week traveling up the west coast through California, Oregon, and Washington. During that trip we visited Lassen Volcanic National Park, Lava Beds National Monument, Crater Lake National Park, The Oregon Coast, The Columbia River Gorge, and Olympic National Park. Many nights of the trip were spent SUV camping, with the occasional hotel room…