Photo Blog with Waterfalls, Hiking, Outdoors, and other Adventures
Not much to see here – just a quick pit stop at the Oklahoma border sign as I was leaving Fort Smith. Another angle. Main reason for this post is to put a pin in my Geomap feature of the site, another reason is just because. Lat = 35.4012413 , Long = -94.4458847 — Show … Read more
I drove across all of Oklahoma yesterday without much stopping on account of hot weather. After camping southeast of Tulsa, I continued driving and left Oklahoma but only just across the border at the Fort Smith National Historic Site in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The largest building on the site is the fort’s barracks, jail, and … Read more
My trip agenda was wide open and I didn’t have clear direction where to go. In cases like this I generally stop worrying about what’s far ahead and try to find what is nearest to me and then just do that thing. Today that led to a drive in the remote and desolate Texas panhandle … Read more
Reached the point in my trip where it’s time to start heading east to begin the return home. I wanted to visit the last site at Petroglyph National Monument but didn’t realize it had a curfew before I arrived so it wasn’t meant to be this time. Traffic in ABQ was making me cranky and … Read more
My adventures for the day ended a bit early, but I didn’t get the best sleep last night and the drive back down the mountains felt like rushing things. I heard there were some good dispersed camping spots in the Pike National Forest so I decided to check those out. “Nice” is an understatement – … Read more
This part of the trip is the consequences of my seat-of-the-pants style travel. Time to pay the piper. In this area of the world there aren’t a ton of options for camping other than RV parks and I’m not keen on bailing out to a hotel every night when I basically have a tent on … Read more
Quick stop at the Nebraska welcome sign on NE-71 in the far northwest corner of the state. Maps show it as being in Harrison, Nebraska but it’s really not all that close. That being said there is pretty much zero signs of other human life around these parts so maybe that is the closest town? … Read more
The Needles Highway (SD-87) is a 14-mile scenic drive through some of the best scenery in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is also part of the larger double-loop Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway. This is by no means an exhaustive guide to the road – just some photos I took during my adventure. Less … Read more
Started the morning attempting to drive across the Needles Highway from east to west but it was closed off at the intersection with America Center Road. I didn’t expect that so no backup plan, and decided to head into the city of Custer to come up with a new plan. While cruising down the main … Read more
The Scenic Tour of Jewel Cave National Monument explores deeper into the cave than the short Discovery Tour which I also joined this morning by mistake. Prepare yourself to traverse up & down over 730 stairs through a 1/2 mile loop that descends several hundred feet. After starting again at the Target Room we immediately … Read more