Hello all, Brian here for this week’s update. As Kate mentioned in the previous post (Here) I’ll be covering from 7/15 to 7/21 and then after that we’ll try to get back into slightly more frequent and shorter updates rather than these mega-posts that take longer to digest. A brief overview: We were spoiled this week and got to stay with friends and sleep in beds! In houses! The morning after sleeping at a rest area along the sunrise highway…
Howdy y’all! It’s been forever since we’ve updated so it’s time to play catch-up. This post will deal with everything we’ve done from 7/09 (the day after the last post) up to 7/14 – the 2nd Sunday of the trip. Next post we’ll fill you in up to 7/21, the 3rd Sunday, and after that we’ll try to stay more on track…ish 😉 We camped at a “free campsite” that night, which was actually just a dirt road on BLM…
Well, as most of you are aware, the blog had died. For those of you who are curious for a bit more information what had actually happened is that my home server (where this blog is hosted) had one of its hard drives fail. This didn’t crash the server initially but when I had performed an upgrade and went to restart the server it didn’t come back up. Seeing as we were on the road and not at the house…
Hello lovemuffins, Kate here. It’s been exactly a week since we hit the road so I thought it was time for another quick update! We had our first major(ish) change of plans/route this week due to our poor planning around 4th of July weekend…oops. We decided that, instead of killing time all weekend to get into Yosemite on (hopefully less busy) Sunday, we’d head away for now and make a visit back to Yosemite when we’re done with this trip….
We lucked out and found a spot in Yosemite to camp the night of the 3rd! But when we opted to move camping spots for the second night, we realized the full extent of what Independence Day in Yosemite National Park meant… There were just SO👏many👏people👏. There was nowhere to park, let alone camp, so we spent the last night in an adorable little campground just outside the park entrance called Summerdale. There was a stream running behind the campground…
Well we made it out of town. On the day we expected to as well. Sure, we had to replace an alternator and water pump before we left but we did it. These first few days have felt a little surreal. It was tough to say goodbye to everyone and the last few days before we left have all started blending together because they went so quickly. Death Valley is hot. We took a handful of pictures before hopping back…