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Utah RV Camping – Bryce Canyon to Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument

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Exploring Southern Utah with an RV from Bryce Canyon National Park to Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument for awesome views, Hiking & Boondocking adventures.

We kept our itinerary pretty loose for this trip, but our general plan was to head from Las Vegas, where we rented our motorhome, towards Bryce Canyon and Escalante in Utah.  We ended up having no problem at all finding boondocking (free) options for all but our last day of RV camping.

Filming Date – Fall, Early October 2020

Day 0 (night before video starts)

  • Fly into Las Vegas Airport
  • Pick up the RV rental at the airport Walmart (we used RVshare.com)
  • Head west 2 hours to St George, Utah.
  • Do a quick boondock camp outside of town in the desert.

Day 1

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Pacific Northwest RV Camping – Redwoods, Painted Hills, Oregon Coast, Mt Hood & more

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Exploring the Pacific Northwest with an RV for amazing views, hiking & boondocking adventures.

We kept our itinerary loose for this trip, but our general plan was to do an rough loop starting outside of Portland at Mount St Helens in Washington state, all the way down the Oregon coast to the Redwoods in northern California, back over to interior Oregon to Crater Lake and the Painted Hills, and ending at Mt Hood before returning our motorhome rental in Portland.

Filming Date – Summer, Mid July 2020

Day 1

  • Pick up the RV outside of Portland, Oregon
  • Head north 1.5 hours to Washington state
  • Mount St Helens Johnston Ridge Observatory
  • Boondock camp near Elk Rock Viewpoint (overnight parking is prohibited further up at the actual observatory parking area)

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A Tour of Texas – Hiking Big Bend & Mexican Border Road Trip

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Join me for a Tour of Texas, from the Gulf of Mexico all the way to a Hike in Big Bend NP, via an adventure along the Mexican border. 

For this adventure, I’ll be travelling (via air) from Philadelphia to San Antonio, Texas.  After landing, the plan will be to grab a rental car and immediately travel 7 hours west, following a route along the Mexican boarder, to Big Bend National Park.  Big Bend holds the distinction as America’s largest protected swath of Chihuahuan desert.  Another of Big Bend’s unique distinctions is that around 118 miles of the Mexican / American boarder lay within it’s boundaries, hugging the deepest point of the Rio Grande.

My plan is to arrive at Big Bend National Park before sunset on day one and make a mad scramble for the Window Trail, which is said to boast some amazing sunset views across the Chisos Mountains.  Assuming I pull this off, my next task will be to awake just before that burning globe comes back around again, and make way for the tallest peak amongst the Chisos Range – Emory Peak.  After that – a quick retreat to the car, a modest rehydration and clean up, and then it will time to hop back in the rental car once again.

Just to keep thing interesting, my plan will be to take an alternate 7 hour route, further to the north, to return to San Antonio.  At that point, I’ll scoop up Sara and head an additional 3 hours west to the Gulf of Mexico.  More specifically, the Corpus Christi region, for some beach front camping, which would be a first for us.

Of course, all of these plans assume that everything goes as expected.  I mean, they never get unexpected or sever weather on the Gulf Coast, do they?  Wait…  do they?