I think Mom forgot how to drive. When we took The Covered Wagon through The City on the way to the Forgotten California, she stopped in...

We slept right at the trailhead until the sound of other hikers slamming their car doors woke us up. Once Mom was fed and packed, she...

Mom says that she lived in California for many years without ever smelling smoke in the Stuck House places. But for as long as I’ve been...

When an explorer has discovered a spectacular place, it’s hard to decide whether to return to that place or leave it behind to explore...

One of those dumb things that humans do is plan ahead. Mom may say that I’m wasting my time doing dog things like chewing on a rubber log...

Mom had picked today’s trail in Salt Lake Oh-My-God-No-Not-A-City!-Crap!-We’re-All-Gonna-Die!* months ago, long before the world was...

Only two things I know about Albuquerque – Bugs Bunny should’ve taken a left turn there. And give me a hundred tries, I’ll never be able...

Our second trail of the weekend was also marked as “hard,” but lots of people exaggerate on the internet. Not one person had rated the...

Some days everything seems to go wrong. Other days, everything seems to go okay, but Mom tells you that everything is really going wrong...

Instead of going down-map from the Devil’s Punchbowl Mom and I drove up-map to Washington. In the morning we kept driving the Covered...

To understand our second hike of the weekend, you have to understand what happened the night before. After hiking the trail that the Real...