Oregon Coast 4
Creek/River, Forest, Lake/Reservoir, Mountains, National Forest land, National Monument, National Park, Ocean, River, Wildlife
Trip Date: September 20, 2021
I believe this was our 4th trip up the Oregon Coast in 4 successive years (except last year because we went to Death Valley with Haley and Brett to look at a possible wedding venue), if you count the first trip, which was technically to Jedediah Smith State Park, but we did cross the border…
Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument, National Park Service
Trip Date: April 19, 2021
This trip was some 45 years in the making. In high school, or maybe even grade school, I became interested in the SouthWest. Maybe it was the cowboy and Indian stories and TV shows I watched as a kid, and certainly an early trip to the Grand Canyon with my parents cemented the area in…
Death Valley with Haley and Brett
Trip Date: October 23, 2020
I believe this trip was billed as a pleasure visit to Death Valley, a place I have been to many times, and the kids have too. My daughter Haley especially loves it and she wanted to share it with her fiancé Brett for the first time. They invited us to go, and I was all…
Saline Valley, Death Valley National Park
Trip Date: January 28, 2019
2019 it is; holy fuck. This is perhaps our fourth consecutive January trip; first heading out to Carrizo Plain, then the Panamints, a bit South of Saline, then 2 consecutive jaunts into the Mojave. We will return to the Mojave in a couple months but we want to get up into the New York Mountains…
Pinnacles National Park (Tom’s Retirement Party)
Trip Date: November 7, 2018
This was another in a series of retirement party trips; this one being for Tommy Two Tone. Tom was already back in his home town of San Luis Obispo so we wanted to camp somewhere sort of in between us and him. It was fun to search for options, although there were not that many…
Obsidian Trip; Inyo National Forest
Above 7000 Feet, Forest, Hot Springs, Mountains, National Forest land, National Monument, National Park, River, Star Gazing, Wild Flowers, Wildlife
Trip Date: September 20, 2018
I don’t know why this is called the Obsidian trip and I am writing this story 4 years after the trip so all I have to go on are the photos. I don’t see any Obsidian in them and I don’t know why we wouldn’t have camped closer to the Obsidian, or right at it…