After leaving Goose Lake State Park we headed north to the small town of John Day, Oregon. It’s a pretty small town with less than 1,500 residents but it is just the type of place we were hoping to find.
Goose Lake, Oregon.
As we continued to head north, we were determined to make it to Oregon. Driving from southern California to Oregon is a long haul. It is right up there with driving across west Texas. It takes just as much time to get to the Oregon border as it would be from here to Canada.
Meetup at the Dry Lake – “The Dust Bowl 2014″.
We had an amazing couple of weeks at the dry lake bed in Joshua Tree, CA. We got a chance to meet a bunch of full time travelers and adventurers. Here is a montage of aerial videos we shot during our 2 week stay.
Wild and Free Children.
I am honored to be part of this month’s DELIGHT bundle from Be Wild and Free. If you haven’t heard of them, they have built an awesome community for homeschoolers. In this month’s bundle, I had a chance to join other mama’s that I admire, like @kristinrogers and @deannamccasland, and write about how we roadschool and adventure across the country with our three young children.
June Lake, CA to Washoe State Park, NV to Susanville, CA.
As usual, we don’t really have many plans until the last minute. Because we know that even if we try to plan something, things always come up to try to ruin that plan. We had thought about going to Alaska first. Then we thought maybe we head to Europe for the summer. At the end, we decided to finish off the rest of the 48 contiguous states in the country by heading to the northeast. First stop, back up the 395 towards the state of Oregon.
An interview on She-Explores.
Marlene was recently interviewed on She-Explores, an awesome website about women who travel and explore. Check it out here!
(You can also peek at older TV spots, interviews and articles about our adventure under the About Us tab in “As seen in“)
A day with Michelle Gardella and crew.
We first found each other a little over a year ago when they made the life changing decision to buy an airstream and take their family on the road. Our paths nearly crossed last winter in the southwest before they decided to plant new roots in Austin, Texas. We are really glad that we finally got to meet here in Connecticut as they are in the final stages of pulling up their old ones.
We can not thank Michelle enough for these AMAZING photos of the kids. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! And for the fabulous day we spent together. Hope our paths cross real soon.
You check out more photos of the kids here.
Sequoia National Park.
Well it is no secret that we are way behind on the blog but we are back in LA for a few weeks for the holidays so we will do our best to catch up. This goes all the way back to March 2014 when we spent some time at Sequoia National Park.
Joshua Tree and Desert Hot Springs, California.
We exited Mojave National Preserve via Kelbaker Road and Interstate 40. Rather than taking I-40 west towards Barstow, we continued southbound on Kelbaker Road outside of Mojave and connected with the old Route 66.
Heading into Las Vegas and the Mojave Desert.
We took the same route out of Page as we did last time we were there. Going north into Utah and meander along the Arizonia/Utah border all the way to St. George, Utah. We decided to stay the night at the Walmart while the Works continued on to Las Vegas.
Lone Rock Beach and Upper Antelope Canyon.
We made a mad dash for Page, Arizona after we left Wupatki National Monument because we knew that we would want to catch Horseshoe Bend at dusk. The last time we were there, we were running late as well and ended up catching it at just the right light. Admittedly, this is a place that is hard to get a good photo of. Almost every moment of the day will cast shadows in some part of the canyon and getting enough light to show it at dusk is always a challenge.
National Monuments Galore to Flagstaff, Arizona
When we left Phoenix, we knew that we wanted to make our way eventually to Page, Arizona. We were just there a couple of months ago on our way to California from Albuquerque but since Josh and Jessa had never been, we didn’t mind one bit going back again. Plus, we wanted to hit up all of those National Monuments that were closed when we drove through last time.
