Island Park, Idaho, Family Trip
Forest, Hot Springs, Lake/Reservoir, Mountains, National Park, River, Star Gazing, Wild Flowers, Wildlife
Trip Date: June 9, 2018
This is another trip that I didn’t write the story for until some 4 years later. That’s how it goes. Sometimes we travel a lot, or the trips are somewhat close together and I don’t get to the story writing right away and then a couple more trips happen, and then they just get left…
Wood Cutting Day Trip, El Dorado National Forest
Trip Date: January 30, 2018
Sometimes a day trip can be just what the doctor ordered. Big long adventures are great for the soul. Short trips to not too far destinations are just perfect for those times, and a day trip with almost no packing or preparation can also make you feel spectacular. This has been a raging week or…
Oregon Coast I, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park
Trip Date: September 17, 2017
I was at the Smith River once before, having come up to camp while I was going the Humboldt State back in the early 1980’s. It is an incredibly beautiful place with massive old-growth Redwoods and the Smith River. They filmed the speeder bike scenes on Endor, home of the Ewoks in 1983’s Return of…
Mojave National Preserve I
Trip Date: January 9, 2017
A January Winter trip has become somewhat of a tradition these last few years. I believe it was perhaps January 0f 2014 Bob, Steve, and I wentto Carrizo Plain National Monument for our first big winter trip. The following year, Tom joined us to go to Red Rock Canyon State Park. January of 2016, Bob,…
Mendocino National Forest above Clear Lake
Trip Date: May 5, 2016
This was essentially a bachelor party for Vince as he is scheduled to take the big step sometime in mid-June, so the boys figured we should have a gathering of fools in his honor. There were a couple of other dates and destinations proposed, but as conflicts emerged and time passed on, Vinny settled on…
Big Hill, El Dorado National Forest
Trip Date: April 1, 2016
It just doesn’t have to be complicated, but sometimes it is. This was Caesar Chavez weekend and at one point in time, it was destined to be a big trip, since the holiday fell on a Thursday, and Friday was my RDO. That big trip never materialized so it was thought to have gone by…