Tag: truck camping
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Dry, Dusty, Beautiful
There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. Read more…
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Reaching the Mountains
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. ~John Muir After driving across the high plains for several days, we finally saw the sharp peaks of southern Colorado reaching for the hazy skies (fires in Wyoming brought smoky skies Read more…
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Heading West
The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it. ~Chris Humphrey Two days before departing on our journey, we finally made plans to head toward Colorado. Why not, right? We had been there last year about the same time and it was beautiful, but this time Read more…
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Wait, What, Again?
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ~John Steinbeck Yeah, we did it again. A mere two weeks after we returned from our first Read more…
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Heading Home
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected… ~Ann Patchett We were up early on our last morning, hoping to get to nearby Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge at sunrise. The refuge was originally called Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, but was changed in Read more…
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The Detour
Sometimes, the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take. ~Angela N. Blount Driving away from the grandeur of the Tetons, we passed through some impressive landscapes along the Hoback River valley. Once we broke out of the mountains, the landscape shifted dramatically to an almost flat, endless expanse of Read more…
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All Roads Lead To…
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. ~Lewis Carroll When they heard we were planning this trip, a few friends automatically said they knew where we were going. We insisted we had made no definite plans and would let the road lead us wherever we needed to go. Read more…
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It’s Better in The Bighorns
Roads were made for journeys, not destinations. ~Confucius Looking at the maps, we hoped to find another area of national forest within a days drive of the Back Hills. An article I had found online on scenic road trips had mentioned an isolated mountain range with the appealing name of Bighorn Mountains. In looking at Read more…
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Badlands and Beyond
My favorite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been. ~Diane Arbus There is a lot of flat land out there in the middle of the country. And not many national forests to disperse camp in it turns out. But, after leaving IL, we drove up along the Missouri River corridor and stopped Read more…
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Getting Started
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. ~Byrd Baggett Okay, now to cover some of the highlights of our journey. We had roughly 3 weeks and dispersed camping was a high priority, but, other than that, not much else was planned. We had kicked around some destination ideas and the last thing Read more…
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