I haven’t spent much time driving further west than Albuquerque so when an opportunity presented itself to go on a road trip to Arizona, I jumped at the chance. A friend of mine who has […]
It’s time for the next edition of the hiking, camping & the great outdoors roundup. If you’ve come across an article you recommend, please share it with me! Happy reading. National Parks Sierra Club – […]
March can be a tricky month – winter and spring are struggling with each other for dominance and humans are placed in the middle of a battle between goliaths. Although the weather wasn’t quite as […]
The National Park Service officially turned 100 on August 25th, but they’ve been celebrating the entire year. To encourage folks to go and visit our beautiful national parks, they are waiving entrance fees on certain weekends, […]
Colorado Bend State Park was as beautiful as we hoped it would be. We visited in late January (yes this post is super late) and recently spoke with friends who visited in May, and it […]
The last time we went to an REI garage sale, we were total rookies. We showed up a little before 9am (the sale started at 9) and by then, there were a couple of hundred […]
Prior to beginning our grand Texas state parks travel adventures, I had no idea that Texas was home to four national forests. A lot of our road trips took us west rather than east, which […]
Every so often REI has garage sales, which are a pretty big ordeal apparently. My partner has a membership at REI and receives updates about when these garage sales take place. We showed up shortly […]
This is too cool to not share many times, in multiple days. To celebrate their centennial in 2016, the National Park Service is offering 16 entrance-fee-free days this year so that people can get out […]
The idea to create this blog came to me long before today. This blog is the result of a lifetime of experiences being active, traveling and – specifically – doing things that are “outdoorsy.” From hiking […]
