Greetings from Twentynine Palms, CA—about 100 miles north of the Mexican border. We’re here to check out Joshua Tree National Park for a day or two, before heading east to finally make our way back across the country toward home.…
Yosemite is paradise on earth
Today is Day 51 of our cross-country adventure. It’s crazy to think that we left New York more than seven weeks ago! We have a new president and everything (ugh). We’ve managed to keep expenses to about $118 a day and…
Yosemite, day 2
For our second day in Yosemite National Park, we opted for one of the most popular full-day hikes: Four Mile Trail. The trail is oddly named, as a full round-trip hike will clock in at around 10 miles (10.12, according…
The grandeur of Yosemite National Park
We just finished another breathtaking day! Just when we thought we had seen all the best national parks that America has to offer, we found another gem. A little park named Yosemite. 🙂
A canyon of kings; a trainwreck of an election
We spent the day at Kings Canyon National Park, which is awesome. But I’m not going to write a full recap, because we just spent the whole night unable to tear ourselves away from the US election coverage (yikes, America!).…
Sequoia, oh boya!
We were back in Sequoia National Park today for another dose of absurdly large trees. The smog we saw yesterday was mostly gone today, so it was nice to see the trees and other sights against a backdrop of mountains and sky instead of…
Walking among the ancient giants of Sequoia National Park
Today we ventured into Sequoia National Park to pay homage to the great kings of the forest. Not lions or tigers or bears (thank goodness)…but the ancient trees that give the park its name. Billy and I visited the California…
A (very) dry drive through California
Hello from ultra-crispy California! Today was a travel day from the Death Valley area to a hotel convenient to Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park. We are looking forward to the extra hour tonight to catch up on…
Death Valley is hot
Today we drove from our little inn on the Nevada/California border to Death Valley National Park. We encountered nothing but empty desert on the 35 minute drive to the park, which was unfortunate because we were hoping to top off our…
Everything is awesome in Las Vegas!
Greetings from Amargosa Valley, Nevada (also known as “the middle of nowhere”)! We left the Las Vegas area this afternoon and checked into the closest hotel we could find to Death Valley National Park (and we are still more than 40 minutes…