Day Trips
A fall trip to Bodega Bay is always nice.
We took a long weekend trip to Union Valley.
This report covers several winter trips with friends.
This report covers several short trips into the mountains.
<The fall wildflowers were even great in 2005 on a trip to Dizzy and the Dogs. that spring.
The fall wildflowers were even great in 2005 on a trip to Yankee Reservoir. that spring.
The wildflowers were great in 2005. So a trip to Death Valley was in order. that spring.
A trip toLaguna Beach allowed us to cool off for the weekend. that spring.
2005's spring was wet, so we found a lot of wildflowers. We took several Day Trips that spring.
We tried to find the Joe May Trailagain.
A winter trip to Valley of Fire and Lake Meadand a late spreing trip to Keyhole Canyon are documented here.
We took our first class at the Zzyzx Field Station.
Three winter trips took us on the Bitter Springs Trail, Nelson's Landing and Teutonia Peak.
We took a short afternoon hike at Red Rock Canyon. to stretch our legs.
I looked for fall color near Cedar City. while seeing a Shakespeare play.
We took a short day trip to Nelson's Landing and Keyhole Canyon. It was a revisit for us.
We took a short day trip to Bryce Canyon National Park after seeing a play at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. It was a revisit for some of us.
Cabin Spring has neither a cabin nor a spring, as far as we can tell.
We took day trips with our friends Sandy and Jody to the Lucy Gray Mountains and to Chloride, AZ.
We ended the summer of 2002 with a camping trip to Lone Pine.
On a weekend away from home I went to Antelope Island
I have wanted to go to the Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve for a long time.
Winter is a time for short day trips. We drove to Alamo the Hard way, Bonelli Bay and Keyhole Canyon
We took Paul to his new home at Oregon State University and then returned through Eastern Oregon
An early fall camping trip took us to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. It was the first time we camped with the dogs.
A weekend trip to the West side of Death Valley took us from springtime to winter in a two day period.
Three quick day trips with our friends Sandy and Jody to Cranes Nest Wash, Ash Meadows and Wilson Ridge for hiking or walking.
Where are Carp and Elgin Nevada? They are remnants of town in Eastern Nevada near Caliente.
Death Valley is a close enough for day trips and also far enough away for a weekend camping trip. The only activity you might not find there is skiing.
Valley of Fire is about an hour from Las Vegas. It has camping, climbing and hiking and is close to Lake Mead and the Lost City Museum.
There are a number of "ghost towns" in northwest Arizona. We visited Chloride and Oatman, as well as the Christmas Tree Pass area east of Laughlin, NV and Grand Canyon Caverns in April, 1996.
Just before Memorial Day we went to the Southern Paiute Powwow at Snow mountain.
We went to Pahrump the short way - over the Spring Mountains in our new Pathfinder
The Mormon Well Roadwas used to travel to California by the southern route. It provides a good drive in the desert.
One unusual highlight or our trip to the Utah Shakespeare Festival was the early morning drive with a falconer
Just before Paul started high school, we took a camping trip into the mountains behind Beaver, UT.
This spring (1997) was dry, but there were sill plenty of Wildflowers to be found if you went remote enough. A 4WD vehicle helped.
Paul and I wen camping at Chimney Creek
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