Tag: Travel
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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…
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Eighty on Eighty
The fastest way to drive across the northern plains is to hit one of the Interstate highways, set the cruise at 80, and zone out for a day. Much slower, but it far more interesting is to pick one of the even numbered US highways and drive through the small towns, past the farms, fields…
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Mako Sica
For many, the South Dakota Badlands are a drive-by on the way to the Black Hills or Yellowstone – a short detour off I-90 through what would have been wasteland in another era. The beauty of the Badlands isn’t fully appricated through a car window at 25mph. Hitting the dirt – hiking the footpaths and…
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The Coachmen Crossfit
Deciding to purchase a Class ‘B’ was hard. But surprisingly, picking the make and model really wasn’t. The Chassis. All class B’s are built on one of three chassis: Mercedes Sprinter, Ram Promaster and Ford Transit. Sprinter and Promaster are by far the most popular, but I really wasn’t enthused about either. Sprinters are the…
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A’s B’s and C’s
As we grew older, car/tent camping got old. My wife is a traveler at heart, not a camper, so the primitiveness of tents, having to cook outdoors, and the lack of a bathroom meant that we only tent camped as a last resort. Nothing that a small travel trailer can’t fix, so we bought one…
Michael Janke 