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…

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Donut Digest: Bizmallow Caramel- Amy’s Donuts, Colorado Springs, CO

Donuts, donuts everywhere! While there actually aren’t donuts everywhere (we can dream though…), our move to Colorado Springs certainly felt like we’d stumbled into the magical land of donuts. In Grand Junction, we had a great go-to for our donut cravings at the locally-owned Home Style Bakery; but sadly, they were closed on Sunday and Monday, so we…

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Donut Digest: Churro Donut- Tourist Home, Flagstaff, AZ

Donuts are this girl’s best friend. I can’t identify when my love of donuts began, but one of my fondest childhood memories involves time spent visiting my dad and the trips that we took to Ye Olde Donut Shoppe just up the road from his house. I can’t remember what the inside looked like or if it…

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Donuts, Descents, & Drives: 3 Days in New Hampshire

After spending three days in one of our new favorite places, Vermont, we hooked up Stan the Airstream and headed east to New Hampshire. When the idea of Tin Sheets was conceived and we started planning our first trip, Jay stated that he wanted to see the fall colors in New England. Spending nine years in…

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