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Heading to Grand Canyon NP

Our next park after Death Valley NP, will be Grand Canyon NP. We drove through Nevada to get to Arizona. Along the way we stopped at Area 51 for a meal with aliens. Stopped at Seven Magic Mountains, an art sculpture located about 30 minutes outside of Las Vegas. We got to get an upContinue reading “Heading to Grand Canyon NP”

Death Valley National Park PT. 2

Let’s see, where did we leave off? We’re on our way to Ballarat to explore an old mining ghost town outside of the park. We estimated about 2 hours to get to Ballarat by sun down and then we’d make our way back into the park to camp. We continue to drive along Coyote CanyonContinue reading “Death Valley National Park PT. 2”

Passing through the Mojave Desert

Next, we decided to go Death Valley National Park. We drove through the Mojave Desert to get there. There were 2 points of interest we wanted to see in the Mojave Desert: Mojave Road Mailbox and Mojave Desert Lava Tube. It was raining as we started driving up to the Mojave Desert. We passed throughContinue reading “Passing through the Mojave Desert”

3 days in Joshua Tree National Park

After the Channel Islands, we started making our way to Joshua Tree. We broke up the drive by staying a night by Lake Hemet in the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains. We did not expect snow there, but it was a beautiful backdrop to wake up to. I’ve been getting some questions about howContinue reading “3 days in Joshua Tree National Park”

Our day on Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands National Park

We made it to the Channel Islands! After leaving LA, we spent the night in the Ventura River Preserve in Ojai. We woke up with some frost on Yogi. After packing up the tent, we made our way down to Island Packers to catch our ride to Santa Cruz Island. Water conditions were pretty roughContinue reading “Our day on Santa Cruz Island in the Channel Islands National Park”

Off to a great start!

Hey everyone! It’s been about 4 days since we started the trip and things have been going great. After moving out of my apartment, we realized wehave way too much stuff. We successfully fit everything into Yogi but will definitely have to get rid of some items along the way. The first night out, weContinue reading “Off to a great start!”