HikeBikeFlyRV Blog

Our time in the west was drawing to a close. After a night at beautiful Lone Rock Beach NP Campground at Lake Powell in Utah, we drove through Monument Valley and visited Goosenecks State Park. Unfortunately it was rainy as we drove by Monument Valley. I'm sure it must be much more impressive than what we saw! Goosenecks was an unexpected surprise. ...

Twin Falls was a terrific stop. We enjoyed great scenery, got Check's bike fixed at the local Trek store, and had cheap hookups at nearby Jerome Fairgrounds. It was time to move on, though, and the local guy-in-the-RV-that-lives-at-the-fairgrounds (there's always one) warned us that there would be a "Mexican Rodeo" that coming weekend and ...

We were planning to head south out of Idaho, but we got stopped in our tracks at Twin Falls. What a gorgeous place! I'm pretty adverse to visiting any city and we certainly didn't plan on spending any time here, but we couldn't resist. It is pretty smoky here due to the wildfires in California and Colorado, and it's also very hot this week. ...

We've been in Idaho most of the summer now. One thing I really wanted to see while we were here was some wildlife. You know, the kind that grows in the northwest. Elk, moose, caribou, mountain goats, that kind of thing. We've hiked Elk Mountain, around Elk Loop, through Elk Meadow, we ate lunch on Elk Bridge dangling our feet over Elk Creek, and ...

I saw a bumper sticker yesterday with the Grateful Dead's line "What a long strange trip it's been" and it made me laugh. It's certainly been a long strange summer. This is our first summer in Weepy and COVID-19 has really turned it upside down. When everything shut down early this spring, I thought that meant that the summer would be quiet ...