Author Archives: teresa

Our campsite is right on the Virgin River, so we slept to the sound of rushing water all night.  We received a gift from the campground gods… 2 bottles of propane for our camp stove, left near registration with a … Continue reading →

We left our BLM campsite this morning.  I noticed the water was rising due to snow melt.  A small sand bar in the river was visible last night is now gone, under water.  Rocks on the sand bar were still … Continue reading →

Next stop- Valley of Fire State Park, adjacent to the Lake Mead Rec. Area.  The Valley of Fire is lots of Red Rock formations which would have been a lot cooler if we hadn’t just come from Red Rocks Canyon.  … Continue reading →

Burning the candle at both ends is catching up with us.  While camping, we go to bed shortly after dark, maybe 8 or 9.  For the last several days, we haven’t been to bed before midnight and we’re still getting … Continue reading →

We went out to Red Rocks Canyon National Conservation Area.  We hiked a trail out to a seasonal lake (a tinaja) and a little further to a cliff that overlooks the valley and the city of Las Vegas.  We had … Continue reading →

The sun is up and Andrew and I are up… it doesn’t matter that we didn’t get to sleep until 2 am.  We soaked in Joyce and George’s hot tub for a little while, worked on the computers and had … Continue reading →

Joyce wanted to take us out to brunch this morning at Red Rocks Casino.  The casino buffet is quite famous for it’s size and quality and we were not disappointed.  I had never been in a casino before and pretty … Continue reading →

We left our remote BLM site and headed toward Las Vegas.  We stopped in Pahrump, NV to check email for a minute and on our way out… it happened again!  We were driving along, minding our own business, and a … Continue reading →

We started this morning before daybreak and drove to Zabrinski Point for the sunrise.  The day started kind of cool, but warmed up quickly.  We did a longer hike, about 5.5 miles, at Golden Canyon-Gower Gulch loop.  The loop took … Continue reading →

A beautiful cold morning on a ridge, with a snow capped peak on one side of us and the salt basin of Death Valley on the other side.  We did some foraging, we gathered pinion nuts (pine nuts) to roast … Continue reading →