Category: Old Adventures
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Kamp Klamath: The Final Entry
July 5 – July 18, 2021 We decided in early June to finish our trip at the end of July, drive to Golden to fix up and sell the trailer, and move on to the next thing in life with no idea as to what that was. We also decided to take the last few…
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California Edition 6: North Coast Culinary Caravan with the Clan
June 17 – July 5, 2021 The Northern California coast is remote, rugged, and beautiful. It is visually stunning with its coastal mountain ranges, lush rainforest, and tall trees that all abruptly end in a dramatic scene where they collide with the Pacific Ocean. It is at this point that the ocean sends the force…
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California Edition 5: Monterey, Big Sur, and the Collector
June 15 – 17, 2021 Lysette likes to say I am a collector of things, to which I disagree. My position is that a serious collector of things would have lots of things, more like Fred Sanford of Sanford & Sons amount of things. A serious collector of things is way more disciplined and organized…
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California Edition 4: San Simeon State Park and Pismo Beach
June 9 – 15, 2021 This bogisode covers our first of what will be many stops along the California coast throughout the rest of June and half of July. The Hunt family interlude represents a big portion of this blog which is a slight stray from the nature stuff but a large portion of what…
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California Edition 3: West to the Coast
June 4 – 9, 2021 This blogisode is one of our shorter editions, as we left the Sierra’s south and west across the state to the coast. An area of Caifornia that doesn’t get the California love as it is mostly agricultural, ranching, and hot (no Elvis surf movies were ever filmed here). It does…
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California Edition 2: The Upper Eastside
May 23 – June 4, 2021 This blogisode features highlights of our wanderings through the Sierra Nevada’s along the 395 northern corridor including June Lakes, Lower Lee Vinings Campground, Tioga Pass Road, Yosemite National Park, Bridgeport, and Grover Hot Springs State Park. Rest assured that we are chronicling our journey daily through words and photos…
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California, The Lower Eastside
May 15 – 23, 2021 The Owens Valley River Basin lies between the White Mountains and the Sierra Nevada Range and at one time was a lush agricultural and ranching hub with ample water flowing from the snow melt off the Sierra’s. There is a complicated history of the area formed around the battle over…
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Nevada
May 12 – 15, 2021 On May 15, 2020, we left our home in Golden, Colorado with basic necessities and a few toys. Our toys included an inflatable stand up paddle board, two bikes, and running shoes. The requirement for bringing stuff was that it first should meet Maslow’s hierarchy of needs pyramid of basic…
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Highlights from our Adventures in the Desert Southwest
April 21 – May 9, 2021 Since we’ve fallen way behind on our blog entries, we sought a way to catch you up without eliminating too much of the good stuff, so we are going to provide ONLY the good stuff. This blogisode eliminates the descriptive turns, brodies, trees, foliage, and details on the many…
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Lee’s Ferry
April 16-19, 2021 I recently read the book, Under the Banner of Heaven, by John Krakauer. This book was recommended by a frequent reader of the blog so I bit after previewing the free sample. It explores the history of the Church of the Latter Day Saints while using their past as a pivot to…
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Grand Canyon National Park
April 13 – 16, 2021 The Grand Canyon has history of exploration and profit seeking, from hotels along the rim that no longer exist, to tolls charged for using trails, and camps constructed for tourists along the Colorado River. Early explorers such as García López de Cárdenas of Spain never got to the river as…
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Homolovi State Park to Flagstaff, AZ
April 8-13, 2021 This Travels With Toohey blogisode features our camp at Homolovi State Park where ancient Native Americans left us lots of ruins, a visit to Petrified Forest National Park to witness really old trees (now rocks that look like the old trees), and to Meteor Crater where the most eminent danger was not…
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Life Beyond the Moki Dugway
April 6 – 8, 2021 This blogisode features action packed adventures at Goosenecks State Park, Valley of the Gods, and Johns Canyon, all tucked neatly between the frightening white knuckle descent down the Moki Dugway through the arid land smattered with amazing named eroded rock features to Mexican Hat, Utah. On a personal note, being…
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Natural Bridges National Monument
April 4 – April 8, 2021 We left Fruita, Colorado for our southerly jaunt into Utah on this day, Easter Sunday, 2021. We decided last night that Natural Bridges National Monument would be our destination. The journey took us along I-70 for a few miles to exit 204 towards Cisco, a town which might no…
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On the Road Again
Fruita Colorado, Colorado National Monument, Rabbit Valley March 29 – April 3, 2021 Yes, we’re back at it after our 3 week hiatus. We left Golden with some sadness in our guts as we said goodbye to friends, familiarity, and, of course, modern comfortable working fixtures. But knowing full well the journey was calling with…
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Golden
March 7 – March 31, 2021 Home is where you feel at home and are treated well. Dalai Lama This blog is short on content but big in meaning. The time out taken from travel over 3 weeks in March was a much needed reprieve from our new normal to one where we took care…
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The Bee-line to Golden
March 2 – March 7, 2021 The Rio Grande river starts at over 12,000 feet in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado where the snow melts producing pure fresh water, the nectar of life. From there it drops, flowing through Colorado’s San Luis Valley providing water for growing crops in an otherwise dry land. It…
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Texas Episode 6: Big Bend National Forest
February 26 – March 2, 2021 Many people we’ve met along the way have reported to us that Texas has a really low percentage of public to private land ownership. This fact impacts our travels as it becomes difficult to find camping spots other than private RV, state, and federal (national park) campgrounds and limits…
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Texas Episode 5: Crossing the 100th Meridian
February 22 – March 2, 2021 The TWT team would like to thank all of you for your comments. We get many in the blog itself but more who send us text, emails, and even call from time to time. We have one friend from Savannah who is an engineer for a business jet manufacturer.…
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Texas Episode 4: Stormy McWinterstormface, 2021
February 10 – 22, 2021 We have the ability to travel anywhere in the world but we ended up stuck here, smack dab in the middle of a natural disaster. The Kemp I finished reading the book, Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne during our first few day in the hill country. I…