I did a 5 mile total with 600 ft elevation to/back hike to a bat cave. Batman was not there. And neither were the Brazilian bats that migrate here and they really don’t get here until June. Interesting drive through the San Luis Valley. Later I did a 3 mile up and down hike to […]
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I met Natasha in Ft Collins for Day 4 and part of Day 5 to look at apartments for when she moved for her internship. Hope I was of some help. Then I took off for a little hiking and went off the trail a bit. What a nice day in the foothills and mountains
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I spent the night the night at a Nebraska National Forest camp site. It was a bit cool at 30F. I found the geology fascinating where it is basically sand dunes where prairie grass grew over them and stabilized the land. Cattle is the main thing here and if there was overgrazing it would become
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This was the day to get from Sioux Falls to the badlands. My hope was to get some hiking in the badlands but holy moly, the wind was whipping around at 40 to 60 mph. Still had some great views as I drove through the area. More travel on Day 3.
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My trip to Iceland in a camper van got me thinking and I felt I should do that in the US. Then I saw that people do this sort of thing in their SUV. So here I am being crazy doing this on a trip to some western states. Here are some pictures of my
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I did a hike near where I was staying. Yesterday I was in a forest and just a short distance away it is dry. Easier hike than the ones I have done in Arizona. Now looking back to the area that I stayed. Rsn into the farm animals along the way And there are beaches
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I went back to Happy Bay to enjoy the cool beach and got a massage from Darcy on the beach. Pure heaven. The was some sprinkles during the session and a 45 second rain afterwards. Then traversed by car up as far as I could go to Pic Paradis, the highest point in St Martin
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Baie Rouge was the beach. Really nice beach but it was windy all over the Island so more waves. Again a nice beach but traffic was terrible to get there. Didn’t matter from which direction. I pulled a pic from one of there news sites. My setup for today. It was too windy for the
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Phillipsburg was the agenda for this morning. I am not a shopper and I just decided to walk around like cruise people but I didn’t have a lanyard. A look of the bay as you come in. There are 4 cruise ships with multiple large yachts. The streets became loaded with people after I took
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Happy Bay Beach was today’s featured beach. The suggested path was from another beach through a hiking trail. I had to take an alternate path through an abandoned resort from the hurricane. The path to happinesses. This is from where I came from. Panoramic view of the bay. And the foot picture to help show
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