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Trabuco Canyon, CA – Part 1
Enjoying 1st off-road ride! People always utter disbelief when I tell them that I only drive 30 minutes to go off-roading. Okay, 30 miles away from where I live to be exact. It nestles inside 460,000...
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Joshua Tree National Park – Part 1
I have to make this in series. Joshua Tree National Park is a breath taking place which is ONLY 2 1/2 hour drive from Los Angeles. I already have made two trips to here, and I intend to make frequent...
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Joshua Tree National Park – Part 2, Lost Horse Mine
One of the privileges of living in Western region is that we get to see hundreds of ghost towns and abandoned mines as tour attractions. How you get there is another story, but having a Jeep surely...
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Moab’s Mystique
Easter Jeep Safari (EJS) began this weekend in Moab, Utah. We have never been to EJS, much to my husband’s frustration, but we have Jeeped Moab. It’s a Jeep enthusiast’s dream, brimming with red dirt,...
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Joshua Tree National Park – Part 3, The Day I Rocked.
Kids hate a long drive. Kids hate a bumpy ride. The one thing kids hate the most is the long and bumpy ride during a family road trip. A destination is known. The courses of the trip are set. There is...
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Big Bear – Part 1, Holcomb Valley
As I promised in the beginning, I’d like to record our “first” family trip to Big Bear off-roading. To keep the record straight I must say that I’ve been to Big Bear many times in the past, and up to...
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Moab 2013, Day One
Each Memorial Day weekend we load up my WJ and tow Lil’ Bruiser over to Moab, Utah, where we spend a few days taking advantage of some of the greatest wheeling terrain in the country. In this mecca...
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Moab 2013, Day Two, Kane Creek Canyon
After the long trip posted on last week‘s blog, we awoke the next morning ready to enjoy our first day of Jeeping in Moab. We took off all the windows on our Jeep, and made our way to the parking lot...
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Moab 2013 – Day Three, Poison Spider Mesa
Last week, I mentioned that our Peanut’s eyes had all they could handle of the dust and breeze from Kane Creek Canyon. But Moab’s daily temperatures rise rapidly, even in May, and wheeling Utah’s...
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Spring Creek
My husband and I are blessed with a child who values sleep more than anyone I’ve met. Peanut slept through the night at 10 weeks, and now, at two years, slumbers an average of 11 – 12 hours a night. I...
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The Day We Earned Our Beads
We often get asked why Lil’ Bruiser sports Mardi Gras beads on the front bumper. The fun answer is that we had to flash our headlights to get them. And, in truth, we really did earn them. Peanut was...
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Wheeler Lake Weekend, Day Two: Jeeping!
It was day two of our adventurous weekend, and it was time to go Jeeping! The early August chill in the air let us know that we certainly weren’t on the plains of Pueblo anymore – we were in the...
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A Road trip, the American dream.
It’s been 9 days since we left our home. Now after 1,800 miles of driving and with more than 1,000 pictures taken, we really are starting to miss our home. NOT!!!! BAHAHAHAHA! Are you kidding me? We...
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Hayden Pass
Don’t you just love when opportunity knocks on your Jeep door and says, “Come on, let’s go wheeling!”? After our disappointing weekend of fixing a leaky roof instead of Jeeping a favorite trail, we...
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16 Years: Our Anniversary Escape
I love wedding anniversaries. Each year is a defiant reminder to the forces that work to destroy marriages that this one ain’t going under! Though we intentionally delight in one another every day, my...
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Sunday Drivin’
Some days you just have to get away. For some people that means a trip to the beach or a day at the spa. For my family, it means spending time in the mountains. The mountains have always been a retreat...
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Johnson Valley – Part 1, Reclaiming My Title as a Jeeper
I have written this piece called, Rant of a Practical Dad, less than a month ago, and on this piece I wrote following on the very first paragraph. “I love adventures and all but I don’t have to prove...
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PMI, Pueblo’s Little Playground
Ever since we moved back to Pueblo seven months ago, Skot and I have tried to find fellow wheelers here and organize some trail runs. Jeeping isn’t a big sport here in Pueblo, but we have found a few...
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Snow Wheeling on Schubarth Trail
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing…snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin Here in Colorado, wheeling in the snow...
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A New Year’s Tradition
New Year’s Day for many includes sleeping late, watching college football, or shopping. But for us, and other Jeepers, New Year’s Day is an ideal opportunity to fit in a little snow wheelin’. For the...
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