Welcome to Texas! Bring on the heat, dust, and big trucks and leave your vegetables at the border. We spent the next six days driving across Texas. Our first day we only dipped our toes in by staying at New Mexico’s oldest winery that happens to be a couple of miles from the NM-TX border. The closest restaurants were in […]
The Snack Box, Stacey, and I are back in the RV! We love our little camper trailer and were very excited to get back to our life on the road, where we’ll spend most of May. Johnson’s Itty Bitty Farm Our first stop took us to Johnson’s Itty Bitty Farm in Boone, CO, where we met some of the most […]
It’s Coulier Season, baby! For those asking yourself, “What is he talking about this time?” I’ll explain: Wikipedia says, “A couloir may be a seam, scar, fissure, or vertical crevasse in an otherwise solid mountain mass.” Skiing these features can be super dangerous due to avalanche danger… But in April, the snow pack begins to become safer — hence, Coulier Season. In […]
Where did April go?! The end of March and April involved more traveling around and we didn’t do a great job of keeping up. Here’s a recap of what we’ve been up to the last 45 days before we embark on our journey back east! So, the day before we were supposed to leave Utah for Colorado we had our […]
We love the backcountry and Utah has some of the best backcountry around. Why Utah? The snow stays fresh longer, the approaches (flat hike sections) are shorter, and there are huge expanses of (relatively) avalanche safe, skiable terrain. Plus, the weather is great and it’s on the western edge of the MT time zone (giving us an extra hour of […]
About 1.5 years ago (December 2022) we started pet/housesitting. In writing this I realized we need to write one or two more posts related to why we started pet sitting, but for now I’ll just tackle the “how.” We pet sit through two programs – TrustedHousesitters (TH) and Rover. In both programs pet sitters and owners have profiles, and like […]
Park City was so nice, we’re doing it twice! Back from Vegas and in maybe our best house sit yet. Casa y Gatos The house we’re sitting is dope – 4 bed, 6 bath, and 4,500 sq.ft. Other than the obvious amenities of a gorgeous mountain chalet (like a nice kitchen, large master bed/bath, and a hot tub), there is […]
We had the weekend off before starting our next pet sit, so we took a quick trip over to Las Vegas for three nights to meet up with my dad! The flight from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas is just a little over an hour of flying time, with several direct flight options. We stayed at the OYO hotel, […]
After the snowstorm we had some time to explore some of the attractions around Park City. The Sundance Film Festival is held in Park City every year in January. It lasts about two weeks and during that time most of the movie theaters around Park City and also Salt Lake City show movies entered in the festival. Most tickets go […]
We made it to Park City for our first pet sit on Thurs., Jan. 11th. It was a 7 hour drive and some of it was through a pretty nasty winter storm. Stacey drove for about 6 of those hours before switching off with me for the final stretch (she must have been a truck driver in her past life). […]