When we started planning our summer road trip we had a plan to drive from Texas to California, up the coast to Washington, visit the San Juan islands and then somehow make it down to Crater Lake National Park, which we had not visited since our 4-month road trip in 2009.
It’s been awhile since we visited Death Valley Valley National Park, and by “awhile” I mean nearly 9 years. The last (and only) time we visited Death Valley was in April of 2009, during the first couple weeks of our four month road trip around the United States. We drove in from Bishop one day, camped overnight, and drove to Las Vegas the following day. I can’t say we spent much longer in the park on this go around. We […]
I finally caught up on some of my American the Beautiful coin art projects so I convinced Travis it was time to visit another! We decided on a weekend trip to North Carolina, mostly to drive the Blue Ridge Parkway. We also stopped through Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Blue Ridge Parkway is 469 miles long and extends from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. We met up with the Blue Ridge […]
Colorado wanderings: visiting Vail and revisiting Rocky Mountain National Park
The Tioga Pass was finally open, and we were excited to see the parts Yosemite which had eluded us on all our previous trips.
Our final new coin art park of our mini road trip – Great Basin National Park.
Our overnight trip to Bryce National Park — we’ll have to go back when we have more time.
A quick sampling of Mesa Verde National Park on our way from Durango to Moab.
Day 1 & 2 of our mini-road trip and trip to Great Sand Dunes National Park.











