First Snow of the Year, Durango El Niño Winter Storm
We just had the first snow of the year which gave us a generous 8 inches of snow over the last 2 days! (maybe more if some hadn’t melted mid day). Sherlock can’t seem to find a place…
5 Dangerous Hiking Mistakes via Sierra Club
After this last summer hiking in the hot hot sun of southern Utah nearly every weekend, seeing in the paper articles of peoples dangerous hiking mistakes, it made us take our casual weekend…
Two Guns Arizona – A Favorite Ghost Town, Then and Now
So, in 2008, when we still lived in Portland, Ross, my friend Lisa and I went on a road trip around Arizona to a collection of Ghost Towns I researched and wanted to…
Williams, Arizona – A Route 66 Town in a Snow Storm
Since this weekend was part of the 75th anniversary of Arizona Ski Bowl, we knew that the ski runs would be packed – and between the Dew Downtown Flagstaff event and the new…
Quad State Weekend Jump to West Yellowstone
Friday On our last day in Breckenridge, we went to The Crown cafe to work and see our one friend in town (who we met last week). It was raining when we left…
Like an old RV in the cold
The Brougham is not made to be lived in long term, nor is it meant to be camped in the winter as we have learned. When we left Slab City (Salton Sea, CA)…




