After our unplanned extended stay in Apache Junction to button up the motorhome repairs, we finally made it northwest toward Las Vegas for just a couple of days. Our route followed U.S. Highway 93 up through Wickenburg, with most of it being four-lane divided highway. We were only here for a couple of nights, but we accomplished our lists. Continue reading From Repairs to Red Rock: Our Las Vegas Layover
After leaving the Washington, D.C. area, we headed to new-to-us areas of Virginia and North Carolina. With a short one-night stop in Williamsburg, we made our way to North Carolina for a week. Along the way, we visited a very disappointing museum and met up with dear friends in the elusive “East” Carolina area. Continue reading Colonial Williamsburg and on to North Carolina
Our motorhome spent 10 days in a Phoenix repair shop after damage from a Colorado windstorm. We lived out of an Airbnb guesthouse, counting down the days—where we distracted ourselves with a new Jeep Badge of Honor trail by conquering the trail to Crown King. Continue reading Repairs, Airbnb Blues, and a Badge!
From flooded camps to border cows—follow our New Year’s escape into Big Bend, our favorite way to ring in a new year and another year of blissful marriage! Continue reading Border Views, Badge Trails, and a Busted Step: Hello, 2025
There is a small window of time during the summer that the passes in Colorado are open for offroading and we were able to hit that! We had a great time, a really challenging trail that ultimately caused a few bruises on the Jeep that needed to be fixed, and we did not leave Colorado without damage to the motorhome because of a freak windstorm just west of Monarch Pass. With our new Thousand Trails Adventure membership we checked out the recently added Blue Mesa Thousand Trails park between Gunnison and Montrose, Colorado. Continue reading More Jeep Badges of Honor in Colorado, Summer 2024
We may have a new favorite national park now! In this blog post, an Escapees Off-Roading HOP adventure in Moab was our final spring 2023 destination before returning to Wisconsin. While the event itself was only 4 days, we were in Moab for a total of 14 and were able to get out on many trails. There had been talk for years that trails would be closed by the Bureau of Land Management and since we were there some of these trails are indeed now closed. Continue reading Spring 2023: Escapees Off-Road HOP
Honestly, we were skeptical of our time in the Branson area and we were very surprised by how much we liked it! Continue reading Turkey Creek Area of Branson
We expand more on our opinion about Glacier National Park after having previously sparked some controversy on Instagram and Facebook with our post about being disappointed with Glacier National Park. Continue reading Wagons East! to Glacier National Park
We had not originally planned to stop in Moab this trip, but we thought it would be a shame if we would not have at least checked it out for a few days. Continue reading Moab – 2 More Badges!
We conquered two more Jeep Badge of Honor trails in Ouray, Colorado, the self-proclaimed Switzerland of America. Continue reading Switzerland of America – Ouray, Colorado
