Tag: Camping across the country
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Finding solitude in a National Park during the busiest season – Great Basin NP
Bringing our dog on this trip has been the best and worst thing. She’s not allowed on any of the trails in the National Parks, so we have to take turns hiking and exploring. We certainly would have been able to do more in the parks without her here, but we also wouldn’t have been…
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Camping in Grand Teton NP
The National Parks are my Disney world. Driving down roads lined with thousands of pine trees that open up to blue lakes, canyon rivers, and unbelievable mountains, we get swallowed up in it all. We lose ourselves. Finding solitude without going into the backcountry is nearly impossible, but it doesn’t matter. There’s something about being…
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Grand Teton NP
We’re all looking at these mountains like they’re an abstract painting we’re trying to comprehend. Am I just one dot in this pointillistic picture or am I everything just as the peaks are everything and we are all everything? Did we make it too easy to bask in wonder at this view or is this accessibility exactly…
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Zion NP and Bryce NP
These 2 parks weren’t even on our list of stops. We had grand hopes of entering the lottery to see The Wave, a surreal, gorgeous sandstone rock formation in the Paria Canyon – Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness. When else would we be driving in this remote area? It seemed sacrilegious to not try, which is why…
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Overcoming anger at silly things – Camping across the U.S., Day 1
My anger at not being able to find packing peanuts at the fucking post office stiffened my limbs and overtook the space in my head that previously held excitement about our upcoming road trip. I have no excuses for why I waited to go to the post office until the day we were leaving. But I…
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