Two Medicine for the Soul

On the 13th day of our 35 day trip we reached the mileage halfway point, Glacier National Park. The Two Medicine Campground is a first-come, first-served site with 100 spaces. Elena made the ultimate sacrifice by letting me wake her up early, so we could make the ~2 hour drive and get there to claim...

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Winnebago Travato Observations

After 15 days of ownership and 12 days of travel covering 2,500 horizontal miles and quite a few vertical miles, we’re starting to figure out our 2022 Winnebago Travato systems and our sequence of operations. We've been over the continental divide a few times and climbed to over 10,000 feet a few times...

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Yellowstone, Boondocks, and Beartooth

We spent Tue (7/27) driving through Yellowstone NP. It was crowded, as I feared it would be, but we avoided the Old Faithful Geyser area, which seems to be the most packed. We visited the West Thumb Geyser Basin. We watched the bison, and the Darwin Award candidates who exited their cars and walked...

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Moose, Hiking, and Bears . . . Oh My!

We often try to route ourselves to maximize nature and minimize human contact. We did want to visit three of the beautiful parks on our route: Grand Teton, Yellowstone, and Glacier. We knew they would be busy, but we dove in (drove in actually) anyway. We camped at Gros Ventre (translation Big Belly)...

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Bebop's Scratch 'n Sniff Museum

 As Paul and Elena have led me to so many interesting new smells in the Bebopabago, my only frustration is not knowing who left each smell. Bobcats and coyotes I know; I've seen them. But I keep encountering all these new calling cards by the roads and trails, and it makes me crazy not to know...

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Antelope Island - the Great Salt Lake

We came down out of the mountains and onto Antelope Island (which, due to low water levels, is actually now a peninsula). Our luck with the fire smoke finally ran out as there was a thick haze over the entire area all day.It was about 95ºF on the island in the middle of the afternoon. We are at a primitive...

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Cool at Last - and A Moose

Friday night (7/23) we camped at the Wasatch Mountain State Park. We did a nice evening hike, the settled in for a cool night at last. The low in the morning was 54ºF. We slept with the windows open and the camper was down to 59ºF by morning. Ahhhh! I wanted to hike the Lake Mary Trail on Saturday (7/24)....

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Nine Mile Canyon - Petroglyphs

On Thursday (July 22), we got away from everyone -- far away. We drove into Nine Mile Canyon in northern Utah. I don’t know what distance-challenged person named it, but we got as far as mile marker 46, and the road still went on from there. Nine Mile Canyon has some of the best petroglyphs in the world,...

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Bebop Blogging

I'm really glad my people bought this camper van for me so I can travel with them. Yesterday was more fun than the first 3 days of long drives. I saw my first deer. I didn't know what it was when it ran past. I thought it was a long-legged coyote. I got to hike up to an arch, splash and play in...

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Finally, A Slower Day

We caught up to our previous planned itinerary today and only had a short driving day. For picking out things we want to do here are our general likes: Nature, geology, Native American sites, mountains, great views, mild temperatures, hiking (Paul), water (Elena), being with Paul and Elena (Bebop)....

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