Road trip budgets can be all over the place. Taking a road trip in a campervan has even more variation. So it’s important to know that traveling in a campervan can make your road trip cheaper – because camping and cooking your own food lowers costs – but it doesn’t always work out that way. […]
Las Vegas makes a good starting and ending point for a road trip to national and Navajo parks in Arizona and Utah, and it helps that my best friend lives there. So after our short visit to Zion National Park, we began our drive to Vegas, where we spent a few days on the strip […]
Andy and I planned on camping at Zion National Park, but that drastic drop in temperature really plagued us while we were in Utah. So we made a last minute decision and found a hotel for the last night of our road trip. We were also running out of steam for the whole trip by […]
Many years ago, I visited my best friend in Vegas, and since she had to work part of the time while I was there, I decided to rent a car and take a side trip to Bryce Canyon National Park in southwestern Utah. But this was in 2007, in the days when MapQuest was still […]
When we left Moab to drive to Tropic, UT, where we were staying to visit Bryce Canyon National Park, we could’ve taken I70 for 90 miles and then a few state highways. But exiting I70 earlier and taking a different route went right through Capitol Reef and then along Scenic Hwy 12. This sounded like […]
Our original idea was to visit Mesa Verde National Park in the southwestern corner of Colorado after our time in Monument Valley. But with the colder temperatures, and the fact that Mesa Verde is in bear country, we decided to skip it. This meant we had one night to play with, and it made sense […]
You might not know of Monument Valley by name, but I bet you’d recognize it in photos. It’s one of the iconic landscapes used in general when mentioning the southwestern US, and more specifically, Monument Valley is the backdrop to many famous western movies. Andy and I knew this had to be a stop on […]
After a very rainy drive from the south rim of the Grand Canyon, we arrived in Page, AZ ready to see some gorgeous sights and get back to camping. Luckily the rain eased up in the afternoon, though we were still worried about potential flooding that could cancel our Antelope Canyon tour. Here’s how we […]
The Grand Canyon is one of the most popular national parks in the US, and for good reason. It’s mind-boggling how big it is, and it’s incredibly gorgeous. I visited with a couple of friends in 2003 but Andy had never been there, so I insisted we add it to our US road trip itinerary. […]
Death Valley National Park is the hottest, dries, and lowest US national park, and the idea of it has always fascinated me. It was high on my list, and luckily it’s not too far from Las Vegas, where my best friend lives, so it was an easy park to add onto our western US road […]