Planning and taking awesome vacations on the cheap
Camping Road trips are a great way to see the country. Campgrounds are plentiful and usually great places to stay. Car camping cuts the lodging cost significantly, leaving more cash to use for the fun parts of the trip: destinations and local food! Decent hotels often cost $100 or more per night, and hotels at …
The last two days of driving took us eleven hours from San Antonio to Pensacola and six and a half hours from Pensacola to Orlando, by way of Ocala. Our trip was uneventful. We started out the first day with a lovely breakfast taco meal cooked by our hostess. We left with full tummies and …
It is great sleeping in a real bedroom again! We are done with the camping part of our trip. After a good sleep we went out to eat with our Texas cousins Greg and Shell. The took us to an amazing Mexican restaurant called Rosario’s. If you are in San Antonio you should go there. …
The Carlsbad KOA is the nicest one we stayed at so far (other than the tarantula.) After a good nights sleep we headed to Carlsbad Caverns. It took about an hour to get there, which included the six mile park driveway. We bought the America the Beautiful pass before our trip so we didn’t have …
We slept well, recovering from our long hike experience. When I got up in the morning my legs didn’t want to work, and they stiffen up again at any opportunity. We packed camp and headed out for a ten hour drive to Carlsbad NM. With 300+ miles yet to drive in our 600+ miles for …
In the last two days we hiked for 14.5 hour covering 17 miles with a total altitude gain and loss of approximately 14,000 feet. We are EXHAUSTED! On Tuesday, June 19 we got up at three a.m. to catch the bus to South Kaibab trailhead. We were in a hurry and didn’t eat breakfast. After …
Today’s post will be short because I have to get to bed. WE GOT A PERMIT FOR BRIGHT ANGEL CAMPGROUND!!! More about that later. We spent the day driving along the canyon rim Road stopping at Overlook points. We also Stopped at that to see you o stopped at the Tusayan ruins the ruins of …
Page AZ to Kaibab National Forest: Ten X Campground AZ I woke with a start and sat up, searching for my phone, sure we had over slept and were in danger of missing our canyon tour. I was surprised when I saw the time: 4:55 am. The alarm wasn’t set to go off until 6:15. …
Holbrook AZ to Page AZ Day five of our trip, and we are getting close to our main stop, the Grand Canyon. When we went to bed last night the wind was blowing hard, making me worry about something falling from the tree overhead. Sometime after midnight rain came, but not the lightning that had …
Albuquerque NM to Holbrook AZ Packing gets faster every day. We had everything put away in 30-40 minuets this morning. Yay for teamwork! The Rio Grande river flows on the west side of Albuquerque so after a stop at Walmart we went down to a small park to see the river. It was beautiful, flowing …