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Category: Travel
Japanese Furo Soaking Tub, Cheap, Collapsible, Temporary – One Person Hot Tub
Also known as an Ofuro tub (if you want to be super polite when discussing it), it’s a Japanese tub where you can easily soak up to your neck in hot water, but it uses less water than traditional American tubs because it is much shorter in length. Instead of laying down flat in the…
Travelling through Europe
After months of looking for a job, and exploring the opportunity trying to live and work in Paris for a short time, I decided to start traveling. Initially, around Europe, and then wherever inexpensive airline fares can take me. I’ve been staying in hostels, guesthouses, and inexpensive hotels. Traveling by plane, high speed train, regional…
Zion and Arches National Park 12/08-01/09
Extra vacation days at the end of the year made for an opportunity to head to Southern Utah and check out Zion in the winter again. The snow had hit the area pretty good. The campground at the park entrance had all melted off, but once you got into the main areas of the park,…
Baja Roadtrip – Ensenada and San Felipe Mexico
I’ve wanted to check out the upper part of Baja California for a long time now, and finally pulled myself away from the cold winter for a little sun and warmth. I left Thursday after work, drove to Mesquite, then the next day drove down to the K58 campground just off the highway to Ensenada….
Devil’s Playground II — The night hell froze over
Needing a break and some solitude I headed back out to the West Desert to a great little camping spot. Weather was in the 60’s, blue skies, forecast said there’d be a little wind, and possibly some snow in the morning. Looking at the weather satellite images it looked like the storm would miss my…
Moab 2005
I biked Slickrock again this year. It was the typical experience — not too many people, the perfect weather, and still a good challenge to get through. I tried some homemade energy goop this year, a bottle of honey with some strawberry flavoring mixed in to thin it out a little and to make it…
The Spiral Jetty/Great Salt Lake/Promontory Point
It got up into the 50’s today so I wanted to get out and explore my new area a bit. I’ve been wanting to go and check out Promontory Point for a long time, and just can’t seem to get out there. There’s basically no easy way. There is a rail line that goes over…
Devil’s Playground
I heard about this place called the Devil’s Playground in the west desert of Utah, just off the huge expanse of insanely flat desert terrain that separates highway 30 from the Great Salt Lake 60 miles away. It took a lot of searching on the web to only come up with a couple references to…