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Glen Canyon & Lake Powell
We spent a warm and sunny first week of April at Lone Rock Beach on Lake Powell, a man-made reservoir on the Colorado River created by the Glen Canyon Dam, that straddles the Arizona/Utah border. This sprawling lake and land to the north are part of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The land south belongs to the Navajo Nation. I’m happy to report that we never got stuck. However, we watched other people get stuck multiple times every day and that was equally entertaining and horrifying. During his explorations, John Wesley Powell named Glen Canyon for the now legendary glens, grottoes, and sandstone formations he saw carved into this…
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Lee’s Ferry & The Colorado River
We didn’t even realize how much we were missing the sight and sounds of water until we got to the Colorado River at Lee’s Ferry at the end of March. Upstream from this point is Glen Canyon, the Glen Canyon Dam, and Lake Powell. Downstream is 277 river miles of the Grand Canyon. Lee’s Ferry is also where rafting trips that travel through the Grand Canyon are launched, and after watching groups leave all week, now we want to go! Our RVing adventure was supposed to check things off of our travel list, but instead, we keep adding to it. We stayed at Lee’s Ferry Campground for a week, at…
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Route 66 To The Grand Canyon
With Spring just about to spring, we decided to try our luck with good weather at the south rim of the Grand Canyon. At 7400ft, we knew it was a gamble, but the Grand Canyon is worth gambling on. From Joshua Tree to the spot we had picked out for boondocking was 6 1/2 “Google Maps” hours which was more than we like. Wanting to break up the trip with a laundry and grocery stop, we stayed at Fort Beale RV Park in Kingman, AZ for a week. The following Sunday, we packed up and continued on. From obsessively checking the weather, we were expecting 1-3 inches of snow on…
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Nature’s Rock Garden: Joshua Tree National Park
We arrived at Joshua Tree National Park a day earlier and left a week later than originally planned. That’s how excited we were to visit and how much we loved this National Park. We also needed more time because a few days were so windy we couldn’t leave the camper for fear it might blow away while we were gone. We had two very convenient home bases provided by the BLM, one 5 minutes from the southern entrance and one 20 minutes from the northern entrances of the park. Unlike the campgrounds inside which are so adorable that they sort of made us want to go tent camping again, these…
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Tucson: Outdoor Edition
After leaving our newly beloved first boondocking site at Las Cienegas NCA, we circled the city of Tucson for a few weeks. I say circled because we never really went to the city. When you are in the world’s Covid-19 hotspot while it is the hotspot, you don’t take any chances. Urban streets and museums went unexplored. Breweries and restaurants remained not visited. However, we did not waste any opportunity to enjoy the area’s parks and trails. Or to spend time with all our new cactus friends. Frenemies? We started out in the Tucson Mountains west of the city at Gilbert Ray Campground, inside Pima County’s Tucson Mountain Park. It’s…
