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Weird, Wonderful Utah
Adventures in both slot canyons and BLM camping My odd little campsite outside of Capitol Reef National Park may have been within a stone’s throw of somebody’s house (okay, a loooong stone’s throw) but nobody bothered me at all. It wasn’t too cold and the wind died off for good around midnight. I poked my…
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Capitol Reef – Solo
(Part One) I drove north towards Capitol Reef National Park under clear skies. Once I got off the Interstate the highway climbed quite a bit and for a while there I could see snow all around me. Apparently Utah had a wet winter, just like California. Utah’s high country reminded me a lot of Colorado…
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Dinosaur Tracks!
After a successful day on BLM land surrounding Fort Pearce I slept well at my little campsite. Although I woke up in the night to the sound of rain and high wind, by morning the clouds has mostly blown away and I made coffee and breakfast in bright sunshine. When I packed up my camp…
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Fun At Fort Pearce
Where I debate my toughness (or the lack thereof) In my last post I was camped in the parking lot of Parowan Petroglyphs, about 15 miles from the Utah town of Cedar City and at an altitude of almost 6,000 feet. The overnight low was 38o, or so the Weather Channel told me. I slept…
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Missing Utah
When faced with the possibility of a solo trip OR a trip with Michael… I chose both The urge has been coming on for a while now. You know what I mean. The urge to get out, go be a gypsy, go live in the truck again. Unfortunately being a full-time traveler isn’t quite in…
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The last day: Yosemite National Park
I was pretty sad to see the trip come to an end. I had such a great time and took so many photographs! But I’d been looking forward to Yosemite, and driving Tioga pass, pretty much since day one. When Michael and I passed through Yosemite in May of 2017, California was on the tail…
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Sunrise At Mono Lake
After such a fabulous day up at Bodie Ghost Town, I was pretty excited to get some sunrise photos at Mono Lake the very next day. That is, I was excited, right up until moment my alarm went off at 5:30am. Okay, maybe not that exact moment. But definitely the moment I realized I’d have to…
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Best. Day. Ever.
When I left off from my last post, I was sitting in a booth at Bishop’s Denny’s and hoping my phone would ring. That the random stranger who’d picked up my solar kit would call me so that I could come get it. About 10 minutes later, my phone did ring. When I put on…
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The Adventures Continue (Hwy 395 Edition)
I woke up on Tuesday morning to find the sun on the truck and the super glue on my cut finger holding fast. A good sign! Taking my time packing up, I enjoyed coffee and a light breakfast. Of course, “packing up” didn’t take very long. All I needed to do was put the computer…
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Sunrise Adventures at Death Valley National Park
Set up at my Death Valley NP campsite, I crawled into the truck sometime around 9:30pm on Sunday. It was still pleasantly warm (maybe 70 degrees?) and the curtains I velcro’d in place gave me all the privacy I needed. I’m not sure why I didn’t sleep all that well. I just know that I…
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The Big Solo Adventure – Part One
Wow, it’s been a while since I posted. And yes, that means it’s been while since I’ve had any adventures. Adventures of the overlanding type, anyway. I planned my first solo trip in a long time around photography. I wanted sunrise photos, and that generally means getting up long before the crack of dawn. I…
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The shipwreck Point Estero
I talked to my sister the other day, and she asked me what the heck happened to the blog. “It’s like you dropped off the face of the earth!” she said. Well…I guess she’s kinda right. I started GoGoTacoNegro so that our friends and family could track our adventures, and for a while there, those…