Feb 25, 2018
🎼On the road again! 🎶
So the Beaver Lodge has taken to the road again! This is us ready to go but, like everything else with this van, there is a bit of a...
Feb 8, 2018
Even the Beaver Lodge goes home for Christmas.
Happy Christmas to you all from us and the Clydesdales and Dalmatian at Budweiser. 🎄🎁🎄 ...Oh, and the Leaf Cutter Ants at the St....
Dec 19, 2017
Who told Old Man Winter he could come for a visit?
Welcome to Great Basin National Park. Don't feel bad if you've never heard of it because if you list all of the 59 National Parks by...
Dec 6, 2017
Rim to Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon
I hope you caught the next-to-last photograph of my last post because this is the view from Kaibab National Forest. It's imperative that...
Nov 30, 2017
The park less traveled makes all the difference
This is Little Finland, it is our second favorite place of the whole trip... more photos later in the blog! If you are in Las Vegas and...
Nov 21, 2017
Indoor hiking? Only in Sin City.
Once we left the PCT, we wondered where to go. What could we do that didn't require Mike to walk too much while his knee rested? We left...
Nov 8, 2017
The Pacific Crest Trail calls
We boarded the Greyhound bus this morning in Phoenix to take us to the beginning of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). Unfortunately you...
Oct 31, 2017
NM, AZ & UT 2.0
We've now said goodbye to Texas and are headed north and west again into New Mexico. Our first stop is White Sands National Monument. ...
Oct 23, 2017
Big Tex or just Big Texas??? You choose...
Meet Big Tex. He is a 55-foot tall talking statue and marketing icon of the annual State Fair of Texas. Since 1952 Big Tex has served as...
Oct 3, 2017
Oklahoma, with an appetizer of Texas Panhandle
Oklahoma... nothing at all like the 1955 musical movie!! Sometimes when I'm in Texas I feel as though I've been living in a bubble. We...
