Where did April go?! The end of March and April involved more traveling around and we didn’t do a great job of keeping up. Here’s a recap of what we’ve been up to the last 45 days before we embark on our journey back east! So, the day before we were supposed to leave Utah for Colorado we had our […]
We love the backcountry and Utah has some of the best backcountry around. Why Utah? The snow stays fresh longer, the approaches (flat hike sections) are shorter, and there are huge expanses of (relatively) avalanche safe, skiable terrain. Plus, the weather is great and it’s on the western edge of the MT time zone (giving us an extra hour of […]
About 1.5 years ago (December 2022) we started pet/housesitting. In writing this I realized we need to write one or two more posts related to why we started pet sitting, but for now I’ll just tackle the “how.” We pet sit through two programs – TrustedHousesitters (TH) and Rover. In both programs pet sitters and owners have profiles, and like […]
Park City was so nice, we’re doing it twice! Back from Vegas and in maybe our best house sit yet. Casa y Gatos The house we’re sitting is dope – 4 bed, 6 bath, and 4,500 sq.ft. Other than the obvious amenities of a gorgeous mountain chalet (like a nice kitchen, large master bed/bath, and a hot tub), there is […]
We had the weekend off before starting our next pet sit, so we took a quick trip over to Las Vegas for three nights to meet up with my dad! The flight from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas is just a little over an hour of flying time, with several direct flight options. We stayed at the OYO hotel, […]
After the snowstorm we had some time to explore some of the attractions around Park City. The Sundance Film Festival is held in Park City every year in January. It lasts about two weeks and during that time most of the movie theaters around Park City and also Salt Lake City show movies entered in the festival. Most tickets go […]
We made it to Park City for our first pet sit on Thurs., Jan. 11th. It was a 7 hour drive and some of it was through a pretty nasty winter storm. Stacey drove for about 6 of those hours before switching off with me for the final stretch (she must have been a truck driver in her past life). […]
We spent about two weeks in the mountains of Colorado between Vail and Beaver Creek ski resorts. We more or less went straight up to about 7,500 feet above sea level, and we both felt the effects of the elevation and humidity change for the first few days – dull headaches and drinking a ton of water but never feeling […]
We made it! We left North Carolina 37 days ago, and this morning we dropped the camper off in storage outside Denver. Our journey was a little over 3,500 miles and we stayed in 12 states along the way. Fun fact – the average cost of gas over the course of our entire trip was $3/gallon (least expensive was Kansas […]
We’re not in Kansas anymore. But we were for a while. Kansas is among the less exciting sections of the US and we’ve crossed it quite a few times on our way to CO or back to NC. Nevertheless, we always find new things to explore. On our way through Kansas, we stopped off at the Brown v. Board of […]