Celebrating Earth Day happens yearly on April 22nd. Each year a theme is chosen; for 2022, the theme is Invest in Our Planet. While this day shines a light on the importance of doing our part to make positive impacts, you shouldn’t limit your activities to one day a year. If you’re like us, we want to do all that we can to educate ourselves and take action to preserve the precious resources we are fortunate enough to enjoy. Earth…
Visiting Puerto Rico recently was a fun adventure. We explored, relaxed, and ate a lot of good food. We highly recommend booking a trip and staying in and around San Juan. Here are some things we learned and places we recommend you visit. The Beach We stayed in the Ocean Park area so spent several days at the beach there, which was walking distance from our Airbnb. It is a popular location and you’ll see a lot of wind and…
When we camp, we prefer to do it away from a lot of people. On occasion we will camp in improved campgrounds that you can reserve – especially if we’re going to be in an area during a popular time, like a holiday weekend. Most of the time, we prefer to camp off-grid so we boondock. You might also have heard it called dry camping or dispersed camping. So what is boondocking exactly and what do you need to know…
Picture this: Sitting on the private deck of a cute cabin looking out over the Middle Fork of the Boise River. You start to get a little chilly so decide to warm up by climbing down into the hot tub that is fed from a natural hot springs source. Sounds like a pretty ideal spot doesn’t it? Well this is what you get when you enjoy a stay at the Twin Springs resort! Alex and I recently had the pleasure…
A weekend warrior is defined in the Oxford dictionary as someone “who participates in an activity only in their spare time.” That’s what Alex and I are. We LOVE traveling and going on adventures but we both have full-time jobs. Contrary to what some may think – we don’t get paid to travel (we wish!). Lately people have surprised me by saying something similar to, “you guys are so lucky to be able to go on so many adventures! I wish…
While in Sedona last summer, my sister-in-law Celeste, our friend Daryn, and myself wanted to get at least one of the more popular hikes in. We happened to be staying down the road from Oak Creek where the Baldwin Trail can be accessed. This is one of the ways you can get to Cathedral Rock. If you use the AllTrails app, you can find this particular route under Cathedral Rock to Red Rock Crossing. It’s a 4.3 mile out and…
Our adventures continued with a visit to the Honanki Ciff Dwellings about 15 miles outside of Sedona in the Coconino National Forest. If you have never been, we highly recommend taking the time to go! There’s just something special about feeling like you are taking a step back in time. I imagine we had a fairly similar view of the area as the people who occupied the cliff dwellings long ago. History has always interested me so I was pretty…
Alex and I were fortunate enough to tag along with the crew at E.M. Motors Boise & Launch Vans on their trip to Sedona for the 2021 Overland Expo (West). What an adventure it was! Neither of us had been to Sedona or the Grand Canyon so we were excited to experience all these places had to offer an adventurer. Add to that was the opportunity to get Vannah out on a long road trip as well! Our trip took…
Have you ever come across a mud puddle right in the middle of your hiking trail? What did you do….go around it or walk through it? Confessions: Personally if I encountered mud, I used to go around it. I mean, who wants mud all over their boots and clothes, right?! Turns out….traveling thru the mud puddle is the better of the two options because it doesn’t make the trail wider if others decide to follow your non-mud puddle route. Widening…
Have you ever thrown a banana peel or an orange peel into the brush while camping? Confession time – I have. “Why would you ever do such a thing,” my horrified self of today asks my oblivious past self?! I didn’t really think it was that big of a deal back then. I mean, after all, won’t some cute little squirrel appreciate an easy snack, I would ask myself? Or I might also think, it’s food – it will decompose…