Over the last few years, we’ve been to 18 national parks as we spent a few years living in a Honda Odyssey on a neverending road trip (before settling down here in Portland, Oregon). As you might imagine, one of the questions we get asked most often – both online and in person – is…
Yellowstone was around the middle of our big national parks road trip in 2020, where we hit 13 amazing national parks over the course of 12 months. Needless to say, it was an incredible year. It was both of our first times in Yellowstone National Park, and while it wasn’t our favorite (that honor goes…
The Grand Canyon is unbelievable. When you walk up to the canyon rim on a sunny day – preferably with a bright blue sky and puffy white clouds – the reds, oranges, and yellows of the canyon look fake. The way that the canyon changes as you traverse the rim is also fascinating. At some points,…
Half way through our year long road trip, we were sitting in Seattle trying to decide where to go next. All of a sudden, Alysha ran into the room to tell me that she had gotten camping reservations at Yellowstone, which you might know are some of the most hard-to-get reservations in the country. From…
How were we so late to the Arizona party? Despite both having been to Arizona MULTIPLE TIMES before, we were radically unprepared for the sheer beauty that we experienced over the course of our Arizona road trip. We spent around two weeks in Arizona, and already started making plans for our return. Because there is…
To be honest, we weren’t quite sure what to expect on our first trip to Death Valley National Park. Just about the only thing I knew was that parts of Star Wars were filmed here, notably some of the Tatooine scenes, which meant I was anticipating big expanses of desert and sand dunes as far…