Over Memorial Day weekend we decided to go camping. I started looking for a place to camp a few weeks prior to the weekend, and found that there are a lot of places to camp in Idaho, but there were a few issues we had to figure out: I found that near to Boise there…
Category: Travel
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A Visit to Baker City, Oregon
It is March and with kids that means it is the time for Spring Break. Back in AZ that meant we would travel to our cabin up north, but we are in Idaho now and no cabin. ”B” still wanted to do something, the only issue was that I am teaching at 3 colleges and…
“Element”al Differences
During our families last couple visits to Arizona (Thanksgiving and Christmas) we have stayed at two “Element” hotels: one in Moab, UT and one in Chandler, AZ. Boy were they different. We stayed in the Moab location on our drive back to Idaho during the Thanksgiving trip. It was very nice. They had a hot…
Time Back in AZ
This last week we ventured down to AZ to visit friends and family for the Thanksgiving holiday. The kids and I all had the week off from school (that is when they do fall break), and B was able to remote work Monday and Tuesday. We chose to drive down because of 2 reasons –…
Vacation on Our Way to Idaho
So we decided to make the move to Idaho a week long vacation as well. We decided to go to California and hit Monterey and San Francisco. We started with a quick stop at a random truck stop along the way. It was an 8 hour drive day. We ate at Panda Express and then…
Quick note – And a Beach
We are traveling to our new home in Idaho. I am working on a long write up of this vacation and will post it once we are in Idaho. I am also working a write up of our last week of seeing people before we left. I hope to get those up with pictures sometime…
Taking Pictures – Waterfalls
This posting is all about one of the things I have always enjoyed taking pictures of: waterfalls. Specifically I am talking about taking pictures with my large format cameras. Looking back through all my pictures over all the years I have been using a large format camera I have found that I quite often take…
A Trip to Death and Trees – Part 5
It got COLD and WINDY overnight. The temperature when we got up was around 35 degrees F, and the winds were gusting up to 50mph (from what we heard). It was brutal. The sunrise was nice. We managed to get breakfast made and the tent down (only one night here), and we then headed to…
A Trip to Death and Trees – Part 4
The next day we headed into Joshua Tree NP. We hit the ranger station first and got some info on hikes and Jr. Ranger books for the girls. Then we headed in. We did a couple short hikes before lunch: the Hidden Valley Loop and the Barker Dam Loop. Both were nice and we saw…
A Trip to Death and Trees – Part 3
We packed up camp the next morning, the girls became Jr. Rangers at Death Valley (#40 something), and we drove out a different way then we came into the park. We went to the sand dunes and played in that a little, and then headed to Mosaic Canyon to do a hike. This was a…