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Water in the Wilderness
Tonight’s blog entry is going to be a little bit different. I will tell you about my visit yesterday to White Sands National Park, the last national park on my schedule for this year, in just a little bit. But first I feel the need to write about what else is going on in my…
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What Time Is It? Part 2
I was originally supposed to leave Utah on Thursday September 5, but as it turned out, my clients had some big deadlines on the 5th and the 6th, so I rearranged plans and pulled out on Friday afternoon. My target was Tucson, Arizona, which was a solid 8 hours of driving, so I broke it…
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Adios to Utah
Great Basin National Park was the last on my list to be visited from my Utah base camp, but I still wasn’t quite finished there. Having cut short my previous visit to Zion, I wanted to go back and do it properly. My plan had been to visit in the late afternoon when people were…
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What Time Is It? Part One.
I finished off my time in Utah with a visit to Great Basin National Park (actually in Nevada) and another short visit to Zion National Park. Great Basin National Park is in Baker, Nevada, almost right on top of the state line with Utah. Figuring out when and how to visit it was a bit…
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Half Visits
Good mortereve. Since last we met, I’ve visited Bryce and Zion National Parks, but each visit has been something of a “half visit” so I waited to blog them together. As I planned for these two parks, I knew I wanted to do something “different” in each of them. I’ve done an awful lot of…
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Capitol Improvements
On Saturday, I made my first national park visit from my new base at Camp Lutherwood. Capitol Reef National Park is actually almost exactly halfway in between my old site at Dead Horse Point State Park and the new one (I passed it on the way), but timing-wise, it worked out better for me to…
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Archenland
My first stop in Utah was my campground, a state park conveniently located at the entrance to Canyonlands National Park. Fortunately, it was a nice park with an electrical hookup for my RV. Unfortunately, the park’s name is Dead Horse Point State Park. Yeah, it’s pretty awful. The park is beautiful and deserves a nicer…
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Blue Table to Green Table
This part of the world has lots of steep-sided, flat-topped hills known as “mesas,” the Spanish word for table. Mesa Verde is Spanish for “green table,” while my last campsite was known as Blue Mesa. So I went from the blue table to the green table to see Mesa Verde National Park. Of note, as…
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Sands of Time
I’ll be honest, when I was thinking ahead about parks I would visit this year, Great Sand Dunes National Park in south-central Colorado didn’t top my list of places I was excited about. Beach sand is part of the seaside experience, and enormous inland piles of sand seem like a curiosity perhaps worth a few…
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Rim to River
As promised, I’m following my plan of working during the week and doing national park visits on weekends. This last week was pretty intensely busy, and next week looks the same, but I took time out yesterday to visit what is probably one of the lesser-known national parks, Black Canyon of the Gunnison. My first…
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