Category: Travel
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Point of Rocks
After spending a few days in a BLM campground in the Lake Mead recreation area, we looked into heading north to the part of the Great Basin that’s in central Nevada. Unfortunately it looked like the weather would be below freezing at night at the places we wanted to visit. So instead we’re heading a…
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We Went To The Zoo The Other Day…
…or what’s otherwise know as Horseshoe Bend. It’s a popular stop off for tourists (by the thousand) and Instagram selfie queens (by the dozens). Hard to appreciate it when you can barely see it. Some places – though very beautiful – are simply too popular to enjoy. Compared to Goosenecks State Park – which is…
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Camping Style, A, B, C and T
We spent a few days on the bluff above the San Juan and at Gooseneck. The weather was good, the view was spectacular. It’s a place where you can find the whole gamut of camping styles, short of the backpackers. In a few days we saw high end A’s – the kind that cost more…
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From the Rio to the San Juan
Whatever New Mexico’s strategy is for maintaining highway 64 across northern New Mexico, it’s not working. I think our campervan got it’s suspension broken in though. Our route took us across the Rio Grande north of Taos to the San Juan river in the desert of southeast Utah. The easternmost leg was through flat, dry…
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Dunes and Canyons
Travelling across Colorado, we ended up in the San Luis Valley. The valley is the remnant of an ancient lake: flat, broad and dry, ringed with mountains. It’s deceptively large too. You can see across the valley, so when driving through it seems like you’d be across in no time, rather than the hours that…
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Trails and Tears
The legacy of the American West is one of hope and opportunities, greed and conquest, trails and tears, broken promises, racism and genocide. For the settlers who looked to the west with the hope that hard work would bring opportunities for them and their descendants, the west was a bright light on the horizon. For…
Michael Janke 