Continuing the road trip we headed off on Route 66 to get our kicks. Ultimately, we arrived at Flagstaff where we stayed at a hotel as camping was getting a little old. We spent most of the next day hiking the south rim of Grand Canyon National Park. I had a distance goal for the weekend of 10 kilometers and that was a perfect distance for an out and back from...
I had originally had planned a few days off for EDC Las Vegas but that has been postponed. Having sheltered in place since March 12, I wanted to go out camping and try “boondocking” or “Dispersed Camping” in a national forest or on BLM land. A few years ago I started learning that many of the western united states were mostly public lands...
I’ve made it folks. My 3400+ mile journey is complete. At least…this one is… Tomorrow, I will jump on a jet airliner to go work for a week in Brazil. I did not get to visit the Grand Canyon, but it is now only 6 hours from my new home so it won’t be long until I see it. Perhaps my next road trip will include following historic route 66. Here...
Day 7 started with some exploration of Arches National Park and then finished with a long drive to Arizona. While I was hoping to visit the Grand Canyon, I am going to have to do that some other time. Ironically, I got stuck on State Route 160 in a road construction traffic jam. After sitting there for 45 minutes, I back tracked and drove through the Navajo...