We hope you enjoy our travels!
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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…
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