Category : road trips

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Last Summer: A Not-Solo Road Trip

Posted on: 7 November 2015 /
Categories: road trips, Travel

Then there was the family reunion up in Jackson Hole for some reason. I took this picture there: It was the most meaningful one I took. Then it was time to drive to Oklahoma, except then two of my nephews were going to come with me sort of, part of the way, before being passed off in

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Last Summer: Driving, Hiking, Fishing the Beartooths

Posted on: 25 June 2015 /
Categories: Hiking, road trips, Travel

The Beartooth Highway is probably the prettiest drive I’ve ever been on and it’s not for lack of trying. This is the best photo I have, but it’s not that communicative of the vast excellence of the drive. So there was that. The Beartooth Mountains are in southwestern Montana, south of Bozeman a ways, a little

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What I Did on My Summer Vacation (Last Year): In Washington

Posted on: 24 June 2015 /
Categories: road trips, Travel

Oregon gives way to Washington. BTW, this, all this last summer stuff, was part of a homelessness-inspired road trip I took in 2014. My house in Pittsburgh sold way faster than I meant for it to sell and — well anyway. Starting June 8th or something I was on the road. Went from Pittsburgh to

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Last Summer: Bend, Bachelor, and Broken Top

Posted on: 23 June 2015 /
Categories: Food, Hiking, road trips, Travel

I had never been to Bend before since I skipped out on the family reunion that had been there. There’s less threat of golf when visiting solo I think. I went to a really good Thai place there and had the Kao Soi: The very next day, I drove up to Mt. Bachelor to see

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Last Summer: Lava Beds National Monument

Posted on: 22 June 2015 /
Categories: road trips, Travel

Getting out of Lake Tahoe’s ugly Bay Area traffic and into the beautiful State of Jefferson was a nice transition. Was trying to work my way up to Bend, Oregon. On the way was Lava Beds National Monument, of which I had not prior to this trip heard. Maybe. I can’t remember. It’s been a

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California, Holiday Weekends, and Tahoe Traffic

Posted on: 20 June 2015 /
Categories: road trips, Travel

Picture > many words. There was no accident, there were just this many people. At which point — how is this a vacation for them? It was a good reminder of California. For reals, though, it took 3 hours to get from South Lake Tahoe to Tahoe City, which — man. I really should have

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I Know What I Did Last Summer: Eastern Sierras

Posted on: 19 June 2015 /
Categories: Hiking, road trips, Travel

I had planned to do this Thousand Islands Lake hike and had permits for it and had borrowed my brother’s bear canister. I didn’t go, though — I think I got sick instead or something. Probably from that stupid too-fancy sandwich place in Bishop, the one with the world’s worst parking lot. I ended up

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Cedar Breaks National Monument = Bryce Canyon – (.5 * Bryce Size) – (.95 * Bryce Crowds)

Posted on: 19 July 2014 /
Categories: road trips, Travel

Basically Bryce Canyon, but not as big and definitely not as crowded. Similar hoodoos though. I was there on June 22nd, driving from SLC to San Diego. Later that night I slept at a rest stop on the California side of the CA-NV line. I-15. The idling semi trucks were like white noise. The person whose

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Mills Lake Hike and Rocky Mountain National Park

Posted on: 6 July 2014 /
Categories: Hiking, road trips, Travel

This happened a long time ago. Before I did my dissertation defense. Before my niece even got married. A long time ago. Rocky Mountain National Park is a National Park located in Denver. There are a ton of people since in Denver (fine, “in Denver”, where “in” means less than 90 minutes away). The Mills Lake

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Climbing Pikes Peak (in a Car)

Posted on: 2 July 2014 /
Categories: road trips, Travel

Pikes Peak is super-close to Colorado Springs. It’s a 14,000+ peak to which you can drive. It is the highest elevation to which I have ever driven. It’s sort of like a toll road operated by the NFS. At the edge of civilization before you start climbing up to the pass toward where the entry

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