Categories Adventure Travel Domestic Essays Hiking River reconnection: backpacking the North Fork Skokomish River Trail in Olympic National Park Posted on Posted onAugust 23, 2023March 9, 2025By Heather Why would any sane, rational human being leave the comfort of their home with air … Continue ReadingRiver reconnection: backpacking the North Fork Skokomish River Trail in Olympic National Park
Categories Domestic Travel Tips Voyageurs National Park in Northern Minnesota Posted on Posted onAugust 8, 2022June 9, 2024By Heather It appears that 2022 is the year I visit national parks experiencing extraordinary flooding events. … Continue ReadingVoyageurs National Park in Northern Minnesota
Categories Domestic 1% of 1% of Yellowstone National Park Posted on Posted onMay 29, 2022January 28, 2025By Heather June 15, 2022 – Yellowstone National Park Update: I published this story just two weeks … Continue Reading1% of 1% of Yellowstone National Park
Categories Domestic Hiking Western Kitsch: The Black Hills, South Dakota Posted on Posted onMay 21, 2022March 15, 2025By Heather We daydreamed about visiting Badlands area for years. We were drawn by the mystique of … Continue ReadingWestern Kitsch: The Black Hills, South Dakota
Categories Domestic Hiking Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge Posted on Posted onMarch 20, 2022September 10, 2023By Heather I have been setting my sights on day trip destinations near Kansas City. I’m seeking … Continue ReadingLoess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge
Categories Domestic Hiking The Sonoran Desert & Saguaro National Park, Arizona Posted on Posted onMay 13, 2021August 25, 2023By Heather The types of cactus and landscape change as we approach Arizona from New Mexico. The … Continue ReadingThe Sonoran Desert & Saguaro National Park, Arizona
Categories Dog-Friendly Domestic White Sands National Park, New Mexico Posted on Posted onApril 20, 2021August 25, 2023By Heather The last time I saw White Sands was more than two decades ago, when it … Continue ReadingWhite Sands National Park, New Mexico
Categories Adventure Travel Domestic Hiking Bryce Canyon National Park Posted on Posted onJanuary 12, 2021August 25, 2023By Heather Bryce Canyon in southern Utah is the last of the four national parks I visited … Continue ReadingBryce Canyon National Park
Categories Adventure Travel Domestic Hiking Capitol Reef National Park Posted on Posted onDecember 19, 2020August 25, 2023By Heather Capitol Reef National Park was the major destination on my 3-week long national parks road … Continue ReadingCapitol Reef National Park
Categories Domestic Autumn in Rocky Mountain National Park Posted on Posted onNovember 11, 2020August 25, 2023By Heather I have long hoped to string together a series of national parks to form a … Continue ReadingAutumn in Rocky Mountain National Park
Categories Domestic Mount Rainier & Ashford, WA Posted on Posted onAugust 11, 2019August 24, 2019By Heather Mount Rainier has called to me since the first time I saw it with my … Continue ReadingMount Rainier & Ashford, WA
Categories Adventure Travel Domestic Hiking Desert Hiking Trip to Moab, Utah Posted on Posted onOctober 10, 2017August 25, 2023By Heather This was the second leg of my annual solo hiking trip to Utah. I spent … Continue ReadingDesert Hiking Trip to Moab, Utah
