Category: Van Life Stories
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The Hubris of Youth Encounter in Big Bend National Park
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As we were nearing the Chisos Basin parking lot from the Basin Loop Trail, two young men were making a lot of noise coming up the trail. It turns out they were loaded down with sleeping bags and full-sized bed pillows with their school backpacks and were pulling a cooler on wheels. Ah, the hubris…
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Logan River – Not all heroes wear capes
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Normally Lisa authors our blog posts, but I needed to tell this story. As we were making our way from Salt Lake City to Bear Lake in northern Utah we stopped at a roadside picnic area next to Logan River. There is still a lot of snow melt coming down from the mountains and the…
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Trouble in Paradise
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Feb. 16, 2023: Brownsville, Texas. What do you do when your house on wheels breaks? I guess the beach was just getting boring so we “needed” some new excitement. We were driving to Brownsville in search of a USB to USB cord for the Volta system on Usain when we got a red battery on…