Category: Travel
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Congaree
We’ve spent the last few days camping in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Part of my half-thought out plan for this trip was to check out one of the few National Parks in the Eastern US, Congaree National Park. The park preserves thousands of acres of hardwood bottomlands, some of which are old growth. In…
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Trail of Tears
Or … how ’bout y’all start heading west. To Oklahoma. On foot. We’re back on the road, this time heading generally southeast, a first for us. We’ve been west many times, but to the east/souteast only once – the Everglades. We’ve never set foot in the Carolinas, the Virginias or Alabama, for example. Part of…
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Revisiting the BWCA, Minnesota’s Wilderness
Minnesota is home to a million-acre tract of undeveloped, protected wilderness area called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It’s located along 150 miles of the US-Canada border, adjacent to the even more-remote Quetico wilderness area in Canada. Travel is by canoe, portaging between lakes & camping in designated lakeside campsites. The BWCA is a…
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Thoughts on the Desert Southwest
Driving the one hundred miles of uninterrupted Mojave Desert from 29 Palms to Parker I spun up a few thoughts about the southwest. I’m a cheesehead who graduated to Minnesota, so I have no ‘born-with’ knowledge or notions about the desert. I first traveled the southwest a couple of decades ago, and at the time…
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Tuzigoot National Monument
Note to self. Highway 89A from Prescott to Clarkdale is not a shortcut if you’re driving a nine-thousand pound dually campervan. The hint we missed was when Google maps said it was 20 miles and one hour to Cottonwood. And yep, it took an hour to go up and over that mountain. A bunch of…
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Joshua Trees
Hint: They aren’t actually trees. They’re a species of yucca. Joshua Tree National Park straddles the boundary between the Colorado and Mojave deserts. The east half is Colorado desert & much like southern Arizona. The west half, where the famous Joshua trees reside, is Mojave desert. You can see the transition as you drive north-south…
Michael Janke 