So far, Capitol Reef NP has been the surprise of the trip for me. Driving in, I quite honestly was questioning my sanity for wanting to visit and really questioning anyone who actually was going to make a homestead here. It was the most desolate landscape I have seen outside of the Saudi deserts. Once we got in though, things changed quite a bit...
La dia antes de ayer nosotros despierto en 4 en la mañana para ir a la Parque Nacional de Canyonland para ver el amanecer en la centro de un arco famoso. Era hermosa, pero en la tiempo entre 5 (era un maneja de un hora) y 6, yo tiene más de 20 picaduras de mosquitos. Ellos eran en todos lados! Eran loco! Después de esto...
We spent Saturday and Sunday in Mesa Verde National Park, in the southwest corner of Colorado near the Ute Mountain Reservation. Mesa Verde is a fascinating park, in part because it was created to protect a cultural resource and not a natural one per se. It was created in 1906 to protect the cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo people. The parks founding is an...
Spent the night in a fantastic state park about 30 miles south of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. We were all up first thing and headed to the Canyon for a guided ranger tour. I freely admit that I knew little about this National Park so was excited to have a ranger available for questions. Turns out, I knew even less than I thought...
Ayer fuimos a la Great Sand Dunes National Park. Fue muy divertido. Ava y yo rodó por las colinas de arena y estábamos muy mareados cuando nos pusimos de pie. Mis padres estaban de excursión. Pero Ava y yo estaban un poquito triste porque hay una cosa que llamado Sandboarding y no pudimos conseguir un sandboard porque necesitas viajar 3 millas y mis padres no quiero...
(as usual… starting with Spanish – scroll down for English) Esto mañana nosotros despierta muy temprano en la mañana para ir a un caminata de 6 millas en los Montanas Rocosas. Nosotros tienen desayuno y ir a el carro. En el carro yo tienen un blanketa y tratar a dormir. Pero solo un corto pedazo de tiempo después...
Why does my image of home start with fabric? Because if you know me well, you know I have never met a house that can’t be renovated – or at least redecorated. I am weirdly domestic for an ardent feminist. The next question is why am I renovating a brand new RV? That is the question Dan asked on repeated occasions. Easy answer – this is HOME for a...
I offer my sincere apologies to the State of Kansas. Ever since a cross country trip in my 20’s I have panned Kansas as flat and uninteresting. Turns out I was making the classic mistake of assumption based on the tiny snippet of Kansas I saw racing past my window on I-70. Pure laziness on my part! Yesterday, we had an opportunity to travel most of the state...
Today we got up early and headed to downtown St Louis and the Gateway Arch National Park. We got exceedingly lucky and were able to get tickets to ride up to the top. The best part for me; I have not done that since I was probably Hazel’s age. And to make it even better, the elevator/tram has not changed at all. Still ridiculously small, crazy...
[note from Carolyn: as some of you surmised from Ava’s post yesterday – we (the evil parents) are making the girls write some of their blog posts in Spanish to keep their skills fresh. Feel free to reply in Spanish and offer tips if you are a Spanish speaker… neither of us speak much. This parent in particular is limited to “uno cerveza por...