When pleasure touring turns to truck driving

On September 11, 2020 by Tom Nichols With 8 Comments - Blog, Our wanderings

Smoke from local fires and from California drifts into the Idaho forests.
Tom shelters under a tree at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve for a quick happy hour before wind and rain force him inside The Epic Van.
Rain on our window at Craters of the Moon.
High winds, with gusts around 90 mph, toppled a large pine onto a house in Evanston, Wyoming.
Another downed tree on the street in Evanston, Wyoming.
More downed branches around a rusted Cadillac.
Downed branches surround a vintage Pontiac Grand Prix at an abandoned motor court in Evanston, Wyoming.
Snow on a drive-by in Evanston, Wyoming. We don’t do snow!
The first fall dusting of snow in the hills south of Evanston, Wyoming on Wyoming 150. Keep heading south!
Fall colors in the Uinta Mountains in northern Utah are a sign it’s time to head back to the desert.

Hurricane-force winds and an Arctic blast in early September wiped out our Rocky Mountain hiking days during our basin-and-range trip, the longest in a COVID-shortened travel year.

Weather

Double trouble: weather and dash alerts

On April 27, 2019 by Judy Nichols With 0 Comments - Blog, Our wanderings, The Epic Van

Weather can be an issue when you live in a tin can on wheels.
The Edmund Pettus Bridge, the spot where the fateful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery began.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice commemorates victims of lynching in the United States.
Dodging storms through the southern states.
Staff members treat a sea turtle on Jekyll Island in Georgia.
The train station in Plains, Georgia, which served as Jimmy Carter's campaign headquarters for his presidential runs.
Boiled crawfish and daquiris; best drive-thru ever!
Storms in Texas caused worry, but were beautiful, too.
Old-growth cypress in The Big Thicket in east Texas.
Tom hiking on the Tuxachanie Trail.
Sunset on the calming waters of the Llano River in Junction, Texas.
Sunrise and clear skies over Junction, Texas.