Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

Here is the view from our tent at the campground in Monument Valley, UT: Of course, if you read the last post, you’ll know that we didn’t actually sleep in the tent that night, so the view would have been the same background with a tent that looked as if it would blow away any […]

We stayed overnight at Monument Valley.  There’s only one place to stay right now – it’s like a small town, with a lodge, a restaurant, a gas station, a grocery and general store, and a campground. It was quite breezy and dusty while we were touring Monument Valley, and we got to our camp site […]

After leaving Moab, we spent the day driving through beautiful scenery to Monument Valley. Monument Valley is one of those places that everyone has seen pictures of even if they didn’t know what it was called. The scenery is iconic Southwest America with vast plains dotted with lone rock buttes and mesas. Many commercials, TV […]

This is the view from the window at the campground we stayed in near Moab, Utah for one night: – Meredith

Our original plan when we left Boulder, CO was to make it to Monument Valley in one long day’s drive. We left a little late though and ran some errands along the way so, in the end, we decided to spend the night in Moab, UT. We set up camp in a nice spot, had […]

When we were in Boulder, our friend Paul told us about the mountain pine beetle that is destroying large lodgepole pine trees throughout Colorado.  The beetles have done most of their work on the west side of the continental divide, but recently, they have crossed over to the eastern side as well.  As we drove […]

Here is the view from our window at Paul and Jenn’s place in Boulder where we stayed for 2 nights: Our room faced the front of the house.  Behind the house, there’s a beautiful yard leading right out to a trail that goes up into the nearby foothills.  Paul didn’t care enough about us to […]

We flew from Boston to Denver and stayed with our friends Paul and Jenn in Boulder for a couple days.  Our time with them went too quickly, but we’re glad we were able to see them on such short notice. Jenn had to work during the day, but Paul took us around Boulder, up into […]