Tag: Capitol Reef National Park

  • Going Back Down South

    Going Back Down South

    And having fun with free camping. I won’t lie. I cried as I drove through Capitol Reef National Park on Highway 24. I hated to leave. A solution came to me while I was still in the Park: when I get home, I need to go through all of my Utah pictures. ALL of them.…

  • Weird, Wonderful Utah

    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…

  • Dinosaur Tracks!

    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…

  • Missing Utah

    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…

  • Isolated, beautiful southern Utah

    Moving on from Capitol Reef was hard, but we had a shipment to pick up in Boulder, UT. See, a while back Michael had sent his beloved Blundstone boots in for a warranty evaluation. They sent him a brand new pair of boots. Of course, they sent the boots to our mailing address, which is…

  • Stunning Capitol Reef

    Happy Halloween, everyone! Today’s recap: Capitol Reef National Park. If you’ve never been, you’re missing out. Sunday October 23rd we ended up camping outside of Loa, Utah,empty-handed as it were, since the only grocery store in town was closed. Actually, everything in that town appeared to be closed. Was it a Mormon thing? At least…