Author: keely

  • Southern Idaho’s First Disappointment

    Okay, so back with the continued adventures of a road trip out west. In our story, it is now July 15, and our intrepid explorers have left the Salt Lake City area, sans kids (they were now with their dad for a few weeks) and half a day behind. The plan, my friends, was to…

  • GC3B: Potters Pond

    There’s a little place in Utah that we’ve been talking about for a while.  To tell the truth, it is a little bit of a sore spot for us, but it’s a beautiful sore spot.  Even though we’ve had some heated discussion about what went down at Potter’s Pond back in 2010, what happened actually…

  • Bryce Canyon National Park: Submission or Serendipity?

    By the time we got to Bryce Canyon that Sunday night in July, I was really darn sick.  We were also extremely hungry.  We had driven pretty hard to try to make it to our place to sleep for the night, and hadn’t time to stop for food.  We had driven past a Subway in…

  • Lower Calf Creek Falls

    Location: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Boulder UT Details:  moderate hike, 5-7 miles round trip, takes average of 3-4 hours for most people to complete.  Park at the Calf Creek Campground and follow the signs.  $3 use fee required. Highlight:  you can swim in the water when you get there.  It’s cold, though! We got to…