Colorado Mountain Towns: Telluride & Ouray
Entering Colorado definitely marked a new phase of our roadtrip. Goodbye, desert. Helloooo, mountains! As I know I’ve said before, I really loved the southwest. Nonetheless, I was jonesing to see blue...
View ArticleNew Year, New York
File this one away as another long overdue life update. Sooo… remember that time I said I was moving to California? It turns out that the state of California had no interest in employing me (not...
View ArticleArches National Park, Utah
Hello hello! First, a few pieces of housekeeping: I’ve created a new page on the blog called Roadtrip USA so that all of these posts are organized and easily accessible in one place. It even has a fun...
View ArticleMore Colorado Mountain Towns: Vail & Breckenridge
After our brief dip back into Utah to visit Arches National Park, the next leg of our roadtrip itinerary took us straight across Colorado, from its western border to Denver. We moseyed eastward along...
View ArticleBeer & Bison in Golden, Colorado
I was so excited to finally get into the heart of Colorado. We spent our first few days around the edges, but finally dove deep into the center of the state to immerse ourselves in mountain life. No...
View ArticleRoadtrip Postcards: Boulder, Colorado
For the most part, I’m really pleased with how we planned and executed our roadtrip. We took months of scheming and dreaming and, in the end, actually whittled it down into a feasible itinerary that...
View ArticleRocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Nowhere gives you that quintessential “on the road” view through your windshield quite like northern Colorado, huh? After skirting the town of Estes Park and taking a quick peek at The Stanley Hotel,...
View ArticleThe Lost Day
Alternate title: Ya Got Trouble, My Friend (Right Here in Rapid City!) Remember our disastrous roadtrip to Cornwall which turned out to be a great lesson in the worst misadventures making the best...
View ArticleBadlands National Park, South Dakota
With Mother Nature having thwarted our plan of visiting Badlands the previous day, we tried again the following morning, treating our recently-repaired campervan with extra TLC. The temperature was...
View ArticleRoadtrip Postcards: Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore could only be a “postcards” post. Despite the face-numbing temperatures we encountered in the Badlands, it was even colder at our next stop. We couldn’t be outside for longer than a few...
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