Over dinner with my brother and sister-in-law I explained how I decided to become a van dweller. Looking for a different town to live in whe...

When an unpleasant thing happens, like, oh, pulling into a right turn lane only to discover, with a crunch, that someone had already slippe...

In Blue Highways , William Least Heat-Moon wrote of getting stuck in a blizzard, with thunder and lightning—in May—at Cedar Breaks, Utah. ...

Though I really like our campsite by North Creek, I get zero cell signal for my Verizon Mifi. So each morning I drive three miles west on h...

So, I didn't wade up the Narrows. But after lunch I decided to hike from the the Grotto to the Emerald Pools. I had second thoughts whe...

I strolled the Riverside Walk today in Zion Canyon. It's a trail from the Temple of Sinawava to the beginning of the Narrows. From there...

Ranger Holly explained desert varnish to me. It's caused by manganese-oxidizing microbes. Essentially microbe poo. Desert varnis...

Well, actually, it was a hike up the Canyon Overlook Trail in Zion National Park.

The Rolling Steel Tent's big cabinet is held together by rivets. But with all the bumpy dirt roads I've been on, and with 140 poun...

Someone had made these lovely chairs for sitting by the fire

The weekend storm here in southwest Utah dumped snow at higher elevations. Craziness.

What do you do when the camping area you planned on using has a locked gate? And it's the weekend? Near a very popular park? You look at...

One advantage of the van dwelling life is that plans can change. Rapidly. Judy and Bob are headed to Alaska, and the first part of their...