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Goodbye, freezing in tents: an affordable taste of the #vanlife is here

I have a confession: as much as I love camping, I am a total wimp when it comes to being cold. Even on summer camping trips, you’ll find me sleeping in a base layer, flannel pants, a long sleeve, and...

December 11, 2017

California Nature Road Tripping

Roadtrip to a Secret CA hot spring

Lake Tahoe and the surrounding northern California and Nevada regions are stunning and offer, to me, a quality of life that’s unbeatable and highly fulfilling. And one of the aspects I love most about this natural and stunning region is...

May 12, 2017
3 min read

Adventure Blog Road Tripping Texas Travel

A road trip through Big Bend National Park

Big Bend National Park has the kind of vastness that makes you wonder “how many years would it take anyone to realize I had disappeared out here?”I’m going to guess at least a week. It’s about two hours off the...

July 26, 2013
2 min read

Adventure Blog Road Tripping Texas Travel

Contrabando: Texas’ Hollywood ghost town

Contrabando looks so authentic that you’d swear it must be fake – and you’d be right, because it is. The small-but-well-preserved ‘ghost town’ was built in 1985 as a movie set up for the film Uphill all the Way, and...

June 5, 2013
3 min read

Adventure Blog Road Tripping Texas Travel

Terlingua, TX: The hippie ghost town time forgot

Ahh, Terlingua – where the temperature is so hot you’ll swear your AC is broken and cash is optional. That’s right – Terlingua is that rarest of towns, a ghost-town-turned-hippie-and-arts-commune-that-is-actually-still-kind-of-a-ghost-town. You know, one of those. There are a good amount...