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The Great (Smokey) Basin
The Great Basin covers most of Nevada and parts of Utah, Oregon Idaho and California. It’s unique because none of the water that flows into the basin ends up in an ocean. It sinks into the ground, flows into lakes, or evaporates – leaving flat, featureless dry and salty lake beds between the many mountains.…
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The Great Salt Lake
A half-dozen trips to Utah and we finally saw the Great Salt Lake. We’ve been to Arches, Zion, Bryce and Canyonlands at least a couple of times each. We’ve been to Dinosaur, Capitol Reef, Goosenecks, Goblin and even Hovenweep. But never to the Lake. The lake is an interesting curiosity, but the Bear River Migratory…
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D. Tickner Was Here…
… and apparently so was A. Freeman. We didn’t actually plan a route on this trip. We had a general idea that we wanted to stay as far north as possible without hitting cold weather, and we wanted to spend time in places that are new to us. We like agenda-less travel, even to the…
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Rush Hour in Wyoming, Camping in Idaho
Started the day with a bit of rush hour traffic. I’m not sure why, but they all decided to go to work at the same time. Just like in the cities. The ranchers waved us through the crowd and we were on our way. West to Idaho After a short stop at Fossil Beds National…
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Meeks Cabin
The plan for the day was to get somewhere near the Great Salt Lake without getting tied up in the metro Salt Lake City area. We crossed Wyoming on I-80, caught up on gas and fresh water, and I (not we) picked a National Forest campground for the night. I’m not familiar with camping in…
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Trail 793
Back on the road, at least for a couple weeks. We started week or so late, mostly because the time that it took to recognize that our refrigerator wasn’t working, compounded by the delays in getting a warranty replacement from the factory in B.C. Fridges ship freight, not Fed Ex or UPS. New (refurbished) fridge…
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Michael Janke 