If you’ve been wondering why we haven’t posted a new blog in over two weeks, it’s because we’ve spent most of that time in the backcountry of the North Cascades and Olympic national parks without our laptop or internet access. We have mostly backpacked, but we also managed to use …
We pulled into Two Medicine Lake campground on the southeastern side of Glacier National Park at 6:30am on August 1 and scored an open campsite! “It didn’t used to be like this,” we heard over and over from veteran Glacier campers. For a week, I had been monitoring the National …
In the last three months, we’ve done dozens of hikes in five mountain states. You’ll have to wait a couple of weeks for the comprehensive report on achievements in the first 100 days of our trip (such an artificial benchmark, I know, but the pundits insist!). In the meantime, I’d …
We arrived in Colorado just over a month ago, on June 10. As the map of our travels on our homepage shows, we circled the western two-thirds of the state hitting some of the highlights but missing many, many more. During the month, we were rarely under a mile above …
After seven weeks on the road, we have seen a lot of toilets, those essential but under-appreciated devices that collect and dispose of our biological waste, without which we’d all live shorter and more brutish lives.
I have been a fan of toilets for a long time, even before living …
Some of our friends have reported that they are no longer receiving notifications when we post a new blog. I guess that’s the downside of learning how to manage a website without proper training… I probably deleted the function by accident while updating one of the features. In any case, …
18,000 cfs. That’s cubic feet per second, measured at the river gauge in Green River, Utah. It didn’t mean much to a couple of easterners new to the Green River—and hankering for a river trip—but we learned that it means the river is carrying a lot of water, and fast. …
We pitched our tent on a sandy beach of Lake Powell, just over the Utah state line on Thursday, May 11, and slowed our pace of travel. We had decided to blast across the country quickly in order to arrive in Utah by mid-May, ahead of the really hot weather.
We left Albuquerque about mid-day on Tuesday heading to Canyon de Chelly in the northeast corner of Arizona. Canyon de Chelly, on the Navajo reservation, was the most-mentioned must-visit destination at our going away parties last month. It is a national monument run by the Navajo nation, who operate a …
Tonight we are in Joplin, Missouri, birthplace of Langston Hughes. Checking the weather forecast this morning from central Kentucky, we found a large brightly colored weather-radar blob in our path and dramatic TV news pictures of large flooded areas in both Missouri and Arkansas. We had hoped to camp tonight …