

Beaver One's first trip to FL 🌴🐊
Welcome to Clearfield Florida! If you're unfamiliar, this is where the Phillies do their Spring Training. The girl in the front...
Mar 2, 2018


🎼On the road again! 🎶
So the Beaver Lodge has taken to the road again! This is us ready to go but, like everything else with this van, there is a bit of a...
Feb 24, 2018


Even the Beaver Lodge goes home for Christmas.
Happy Christmas to you all from us and the Clydesdales and Dalmatian at Budweiser. 🎄🎁🎄 ...Oh, and the Leaf Cutter Ants at the St....
Feb 8, 2018


Who told Old Man Winter he could come for a visit?
Welcome to Great Basin National Park. Don't feel bad if you've never heard of it because if you list all of the 59 National Parks by...
Dec 18, 2017


Rim to Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon
I hope you caught the next-to-last photograph of my last post because this is the view from Kaibab National Forest. It's imperative that...
Dec 6, 2017


The park less traveled makes all the difference
This is Little Finland, it is our second favorite place of the whole trip... more photos later in the blog! If you are in Las Vegas and...
Nov 30, 2017


Indoor hiking? Only in Sin City.
Once we left the PCT, we wondered where to go. What could we do that didn't require Mike to walk too much while his knee rested? We left...
Nov 21, 2017


The Pacific Crest Trail calls
We boarded the Greyhound bus this morning in Phoenix to take us to the beginning of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). Unfortunately you...
Nov 8, 2017


NM, AZ & UT 2.0
We've now said goodbye to Texas and are headed north and west again into New Mexico. Our first stop is White Sands National Monument. ...
Oct 30, 2017


Big Tex or just Big Texas??? You choose...
Meet Big Tex. He is a 55-foot tall talking statue and marketing icon of the annual State Fair of Texas. Since 1952 Big Tex has served as...
Oct 22, 2017







































