This is part of a series called COVID and Fire Tour 2020 In travel, sometimes change is thrust upon you, and sometimes you just feel like changing. Our plan was to leave the Vegas area and to spend 3-4 days up at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. We were doing that to kill…
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This is part of a series called COVID and Fire Tour 2020 There were lots of things that we wanted to see around Las Vegas, without actually going there (too many crowds and unmasked people). Our first stop was the second of our “discoveries” during the trip re-plan — Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument. …
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This is part of a series called COVID and Fire Tour 2020 After leaving Lava Beds National Monument, we needed an intermediate stop on our way to Devil’s Postpile and I had actually never seen Lake Tahoe before — or any of the other famous places like Squaw Valley. It seemed like a natural. A…
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This is part of a series called COVID and Fire Tour 2020 As we headed south from Newberry, the smoke became thicker in nearly all directions. At one point, Deb asked if we were driving into a fire. I suggested that they would have closed the road if that were the case. Having said that,…
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This is part of a series called COVID and Fire Tour 2020 After getting our truck’s air conditioner fixed, it was time to head down to the Newberry National Volcanic Monument — just a short drive from Bend, OR. Two very important things struck us as we pulled in: (1) the park was officially closed…
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This is part of a series called COVID and Fire Tour 2020 We started our trip to Mt. Hood with a detour to get the truck’s air conditioner fixed. We were actually quite fortunate to find a small diesel mechanic shop who could do the work since most of the dealerships and big repair shops…
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This is part of a series called COVID and Fire Tour 2020 It’s a little weird — we’ve lived in WA state since 2009, have been to the other national parks in the state multiple times, and yet this was our first trip to Mt. Rainier. I suspect it’s because you always see it in…
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This is part of a series called COVID and Fire Tour 2020 Since the COVID-19 outbreak in March, we have been quarantined — initially in Puerto Vallarta and now at our home in San Juan Island. During that time, we have had to postpone trips to the Galapagos, Machu Picchu, South Africa and Botswana, and…
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This is part of a series called East Coast Slam 2019 Since we were going to be back on the East Coast and had the better part of a week to kill, we debated where to go — especially since we had lived in the greater DC Metro area for 15 years and had seen…
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This is part of a series called East Coast Slam 2019 November saw us undertake one of our famous “slams” — a road trip with lots of locations in a fairly compressed period of time. There were two notable changes on this slam: (1) it was on the East Coast, and (2) we injected some…
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