Given our good friends and only granddaughter live in northern Phoenix (just north of Scottsdale), anytime we have the opportunity to pass through the area, we do! We typically stay with them on weekends but like to stay close…
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is the largest state park in California and I’d never heard of it! It’s located in the Colorado/Sonoran Desert of southern California, is about an hour and half from San Diego and essentially surrounds the…
I’m a huge U2 fan so I couldn’t resist the title of this blog. U2’s fifth album titled “Joshua Tree” is frequently listed among the greatest albums off all time and is one of the world’s best selling albums…
In July of 1986, Life magazine dubbed Nevada Highway 50 “The Loneliest Road in America” and the title stuck! The article claimed there were “no points of interest” along the route and warned readers not to risk traveling it…
During our first visit to the Olympic National Park in 2020 we visited the top sites and they’re phenomenal, so I highly recommend those if you’ve never been (see post here and here). I said it then, and I’ll say…
Boondock With Bailey Scenic Cycling Travel
Beating 2021’s Summer Heat and Bad Juju in Eastern Oregon
With 2021’s sweltering heat even in early July, we continued to look for camping at high elevation and near water. Believe it or not, Halfway, OR met our needs more than halfway. HALFWAY AND FISH LAKE Halfway, OR is…
Almost due east of Sisters, OR (post here) is Prineville. The drive from Sisters to Prineville is pretty in a central Oregon ranch land way, and just before you drop into Prineville there’s an overlook called Ochoco Wayside State…
From Canyonlands (link to prior post here), we headed east to Capitol Reef National Park. Following a great visit there, we took Utah’s scenic byway Highway 12 towards Bryce Canyon. The grandeur of this 125 mile connector between the two…
There’s no doubt that the “Mighty 5” in Utah (Canyonlands, Arches, Capital Reef, Bryce and Zion) are on your to-do list but in the next 3 posts I think you’ll see there’s a good case to be made that…
If you bust out your happy dance at the mere thought of Puebloan ruins then Wupatki National Monument better make your bucket list. The area was believed to have been a huge farming and trading community based on Hopi…
