finally. it was time to start our long trip across the country back to north carolina. derek and isaac took the rv with the plan to travel in small increments in the evenings after work, and the girls and i took a different route, with a plan to squeeze in some adventures and visit friends. […]
national parks
observation point. zion national park.(my last hurrah).
when i found out we were returning to the general vicinity of zion national park, i had high hopes for lots of epic adventures. but, while we were there, we first made the executive decision to head home to nc at the end of our stay, and then amended that to leave about a week […]
zion, with friends.
our cedar city-ish campground (from early november, yes my blogging is way behind) just happened to be about an hour from zion. so the big kids and i made plans with our st. george friends to meet up in at the visitor center for lunch and then a few small hikes and adventures. firstly, we […]
cedar breaks national monument. (fail).
our post salt lake city campground was just outside cedar city, utah. as we drove, i realized we were pretty close to cedar breaks national monument, which i had heard good things about. so, after we had settled in, we bundled all up and i whisked the kids away for a quick little adventure. maybe […]
arches and canyonlands with new gramma.
obviously, i am once again a million years behind in blogging. it’s been a crazy month of whirlwind travel, which will be detailed in great length in a later post. for now though, i’ll pick up where i left off a month ago, just outside salt lake city, where my mom flew out to visit […]
great basin national park.
initially, we were pretty sure there was no way we were going to squeeze in a trip to great basin national park. it’s a little off the beaten path, and the internet isn’t so hot, so with derek starting his new job, it wasn’t looking like a possibility. then, we had the bright idea that […]
crater lake national park.
way back when we were making our way up the coast, we had plans to go to crater lake national park, but we canceled them at literally the last minute, because of wildfires and smoke and the worry that it would be a pretty big letdown. then, when we were making plans to get back […]
mount rainier hiking and camping extravaganza(mom and anna adventures).
most of our time at mount rainier was sort of overcast and cloudy. we could view the mountain from our campsite, but most days it was covered up by clouds and fog. but on one of the days during our time there, we awakened to clear blue skies and a great view of the mountain. […]
mount rainier days.
our last stop on our tour of pacific northwest national parks and big cities was mount rainier. after our time in monroe and visiting seattle, we made our way south to packwood, washington, which is just outside of the national park. as we were settling in, i noticed that i had a slight tickle in […]
sauk mountain & north cascades day two.
on our second day at north cascades, we knew we wanted to find a fantastic hike. derek researched for awhile and we settled on a hike that isn’t actually in the park, but just outside in the national forest, on sauk mountain. the road to the trailhead was very rustic. bumpy, winding, internetless. as we […]
