Redwood can be an overwhelming and confusing park with state parks mixed in with different national park districts. I've been to a couple different areas and thus far Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park is my favorite. First highlight was the camping. One of the things that sets Redwood apart from the other big tree parks …
...And Big Bend National Park Important Big Bend Tip: When you're driving this close to the Mexico-U.S. border, you will be stopped multiple times at border patrol checkpoints. They will ask if everyone in the car is a U.S. citizen. If the answer is yes they will wave you on, if the answer is no, …
Sharing something you love can be one of the most rewarding experiences, so when two of my friends asked me to take them on a trip to teach them how to backpack I was over the moon, I was so excited. I was going to take them on the most amazing trip of their lives, …
I thought the beach before this was full of sea lions, but Espanola was next level. Not only full of sea lions but the sand was perfectly white, it was like having a sea lion photography studio! The best part was we had all afternoon to hang out at the beach, but everyone except me …
Back to the Galapagos! I'll try to move faster through these so we can get back to more of the hiking and camping, I just have all these crazy photos I want to share and it's hard to cut them down, so we'll focus more on just the photos. At Punta Pitt we went for …
I'm interrupting our regularly scheduled program of me trying to get through all my trips from last summer before the next summer travel season starts because over the long weekend we took Stella on her first camping trip! This is one of the moments that I am so glad I live in Texas, because we …
Wow I am definitely missing some pictures from Day 4 as well...this was the day of Olallie Lake and Resort so I will also be updating this post with an addendum at a later point. This is also why I'm posting it so soon after Day 3...there's not much to see.
Day 2 started the same way that Day 1 ended, totally socked in and surprisingly chilly. This was already a very different hike than our idyllic Washington section where we had nothing but blue skies and sun for 100 miles.
As I always do in the summer, I will be traveling extensively, and for 85% of the time I will not have access to either my laptop or wifi, and I just don't have a good enough data plan to use my phone for blog updates. So the plan is to schedule some posts on …
After the price for Balcones Canyonlands and Wild Basin Preserve (free), the price for McKinney Falls was a bit steep, but also justifiable since we didn't pay for any other parks. It's also different that the other parks because its much more recreational and developed as a park. Trails are paved, and the falls are …
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