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    Month: October 2018

    Western Sierras, California

    Stop 59: Western Sierra Foothills

    October 28, 2018 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We left Lee Vining, CA, and the Eastern Sierras for a wonderful and crazy drive up and over the mountain range into the western foothills — stopping first in Pine Grove and then continuing down to Mariposa. Our drive took us on Highway 88 through the Eldorado National Forest, located mostly

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    Yosemite National Park

    Stop 58: Yosemite National Park and Eastern Sierras

    October 23, 2018 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We traveled from Tonopah, Nevada, to Lee Vining, California, to spend several days in and around the Eastern Sierras, including visits to Bodie, Mono Lake, Inyo National Forest, Mammoth Lakes, and — of course — Yosemite National Park. We started the adventure by visiting the site of a once-booming gold

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    Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge

    Stop 57: Remembering Alamo… Nevada

    October 16, 2018 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    We made a stop in the lovely Pahranagat Valley — camping in a cute little RV park in the town of Alamo, Nevada… a little oasis in the middle of the Great Basin desert located about 90 miles north of Las Vegas (an area we never need to visit again). The

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    Autumn Aspens, Kolob Reservoir, UT

    Stop 56: Zion National Park, Our 25th Park

    October 13, 2018 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    This stop was mostly all about Zion National Park, though we were also happy to spend some time in St. George, UT, which was a great place to restock after being in lots of tiny towns for the last several weeks as we worked our way through the state. (We

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    North Rim Grand Canyon National Park

    Stop 55: Grand Canyon North Rim… Just Wow!

    October 11, 2018 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    When we visited the Grand Canyon (National Park #3 on our adventure) back in February of this year, the North Rim — the Kaibab Plateau — was unreachable because of heavy snow… so it has been in the works for months to make the trek back to this amazing natural

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    Monument Valley

    Stop 54: Monumental Adventures on Arizona-Utah Border

    October 8, 2018 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    Our hunt for more crazy sandstone buttes and towers led us to the Utah-Arizona border — and directly into Monument Valley and to a little campground at Gouldings (on the Utah side of the border) — a compound that started as a trading post for the Navajo people and now

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    Bears Ears National Monument

    Stop 53: Southeast Utah and Foray Into Three Other States

    October 3, 2018 JenRan Uncategorized Leave a comment

    As we make our way through the rest of Utah in a clockwise direction, we landed in the cute town of Blanding… the perfect stop to view two (or more if you have the time) national monuments and explore the Four Corners area (in which Utah’s border touches three other

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