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Hiking The Black Hills With Poppy the Mountain Goat

Misadventure Ensues When we adopted Poppy, we knew she had a lot of energy and loved to go for walks, but we weren’t sure how far she could go since she is on the smaller side (not quite 14 lbs). We started with the 1.5-mile Stockade Lake Trail loop to warm her and us upContinue reading “Hiking The Black Hills With Poppy the Mountain Goat”

Joshua Tree National Park, a Missing Campground & a 4wd Adventure

We’ve always wanted to visit Joshua Tree National Park, and it’s crazy that in all of the years that I’ve visited Palm Springs, I hadn’t. Well, that all ended during this trip. Although Joshua Tree is only about an hour away from Palm Springs, we arrived at the dispersed campground outside of the park’s southernContinue reading “Joshua Tree National Park, a Missing Campground & a 4wd Adventure”

The Search For Butane & Other (Mis)Adventures

If you read my previous post about our off-road, 4wd, rock-crawling adventure, you may see that we are two people who live by the seat of our pants and don’t do too much research or planning before plunging into something. The following post expands on that theme and follows our usual modus operandi. It startsContinue reading “The Search For Butane & Other (Mis)Adventures”

Home Is the Van

We woke up today, New Year’s Eve, in our new home, the van. After five months of waiting, it didn’t seem like it would ever happen. There were ups and downs. Mistakes were made. None of that matters now because we are finally starting out on the adventure we dreamt of. We picked up theContinue reading “Home Is the Van”

One Year Ago Today

One year ago today, we left on our first van trip. It would prove to be life-changing. As I type this, I am now retired, and we are flying out to Boulder to pick up our van from Anti-Sprinter, who has been “camperizing” it more professionally than we could have in such a short time.Continue reading “One Year Ago Today”