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In the GSENM there is lots to see. - The Cosmic Ashtray. - Petrified logs. - Slot canyons. - Dinosaur tracks. - Devil's Garden. - Cottonwood canyon has fossilized oysters. See the following link for more ideas...

The Crack in the Ground might be fun for your kids to explore.

I think there needs to be a national educational campaign like the Smokey the Bear campaign. People don't understand that today's TP is strong and doesn't decompose rapidly. They don't understand that their waste has germs in it. We need easy to buy poop bags. I stopped in a large grocery...

I spent the month of May at City of Rocks and Castle Rocks, Idaho. I was a volunteer interpretive guide giving geology tours and explained the California Trail. I had a wonderful month. I wrote some blog entries, but none are full of adventure. There was lots of rain during the month which...

I'm at the City of Rocks and Castle Rock this month volunteering. I'm writing some posts to my blog, but the blog posts are truly uneventful. This is a quite place at the end of the pavement. What you may not know; is that, the City of Rocks campground is something special. Camp sites are...

I hope you blog on your trip. I enjoyed your writings and photos from your Alaska trip.

My favorite info is from ultimate campgrounds which includes boondocking locations. I've heard 3rd/4th hand that anyone can stop for the night at a truck stop, but don't plan on much sleeping because they are noisy. Maybe others have comments on this. What is your daughter's field work? Just...

An alternate to what was described by Alley Kat, take the Burr Trail. It heads east at Boulder. One of my all time favorite camping spots is on the road. See May 11, 2014 in my blog (link below). The spot is located on my map. A different way to see Zion is to drive north from hwy 9, east...

Thanks for sharing. I enjoy hearing/seeing about places I have never been.

Thanks everyone for your comments. I appreciate it. In a year or so, I'll report back. For now, I'll start visiting the stores and get the full information on cost and fees.

I need to get a new cell phone and plan. I’m retiring – no more company cell phone. :-) I’ve looked at the coverage maps for the western US and AT&T and Version look like they have similar coverage. I would appreciate any real life experience in coverage experience while wander the west that...

I have at 17.5 ft Bigfoot that I'm happy with. They make a 25 ft trailer. I had the axle flipped to give me more clearance. The trailers are expensive and there aren't too many in the US, but I just checked craigslist every day for about two months and then found one close to home at a...

I have two Trojan T-105 batteries (flooded). Last year I was in some cold weather. I started heating my trailer at 3:00 and kept it at 65 degrees until 9:00 then I turned the heater off. I turned on the heat for about 30 minutes in the middle of the night. The low temperature that night was...

I lived in Alaska in the 80s. ANWAR and the Porcupine caribou herd were thought of as being special when I lived there. I thought of chartering in to see the place and caribou but it didn't happen before I moved away. I have a strong emotional response against opening up ANWAR. Maybe a lot...

Thanks everyone for the good information. I'm looking at buying a new truck in the next year and have started to surf the truck sites and have found the information not clearly laid out (for me). I love the Ford product description document - information in one place.

Thanks for sharing and telling a bit about New Mexico that I didn't know about.

Somehow I missed this topic. But I will rectify that by making some recommendations. Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail. By Keith Heyer Meldahl. Great book that explains the hardship of traveling the Oregon Trail and explains the geology along the trail. And for...

If you want to take the back roads to McCall, note that FS Road 674 is paved starting at the Lick Creek Road southward. I'm not sure if it is paved all the way to Warm Lake. Most maps show it as a gravel road. The high elevations of Lick Creek Road shows lots of exposed granite. Very scenic...

Here is a good source I found about Nevada old stuff. http://www.forgottennevada.org/sites/index.html

Thanks for sharing. I watched the whole video and then started looking at google earth to see how I could access some of the area without horses. I'm wishing I didn't need to work for a living. There are so many places to explore.

I thought I had figured out a work around. I was using Google my maps and adding a layer for each day. But then I got to the 10th layer and Google said no more layers. Darn.

I need more vacation time. Thanks for the info. The Gravelly Range will stay on my to-do list.

Foy: Did you drive up to the Gravelly Range? Elk Lake Lodge is on my to-do list. I have a friend who loves it there. That is how I heard of Red Rock Lakes.

Does anyone know of a mapping software (preferably free) that can be used to record a trip? All the mapping software I find want's to tell me the most efficient way to drive and it changes the route and the order of my stops. It can't seem to handle the idea that one can spend multiple nights...

The blog posts are done. Enjoy. Now I need to start planning the next trip. https://searchingfor.blog/