Archive for August 2017
Joshua Trees and Other Strange Desert Plants
From Death Valley, we headed south towards the next destination on our Tin Sheets in the Desert trip, Joshua Tree National Park. En route we traveled through huge expanses of, well, nothing but desert. We’ve been through different parts of the Mojave on previous trips and we knew there was a lot of desert, but until you’ve driven…
Read MoreFrom Badwater to Borax: Visiting Death Valley
After a brief, but neon-tastic stay in Las Vegas, we hit the road early, en route to Death Valley National Park. Having never been to Death Valley, we envisioned the area to look like the pictures most often associated with the park, Badwater Basin and the Racetrack Playa. To our surprise, Death Valley was so much more…
Read MoreLand Cruiser 2.0: The Sequel
If you’ve been following our adventures over the last year (holy cow, it’s already been a year?), you know that we like cars. Maybe too much. It’s not that we enjoy buying cars, it’s just that we’re constantly trying to find the right one. Call us Goldishocks (see what we did there), if you like.…
Read MoreBright Lights, Sin City: 12 Hours in Vegas
If you’ve read our Long, Long, Too Long Trailer post, you know that upon returning from our initial trip in Stan the Airstream, we had a huge realization- we are not RV people. For years before we sold the winery, we talked about how cool it would be to buy an Airstream and travel the country. And…
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