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How Our Family of 4 Travelled and Camped for 2 Months In 6 Countries with Only Carry-Ons

David BowmanJuly 18, 2018Comment
How Our Family of 4 Travelled and Camped for 2 Months In 6 Countries with Only Carry-Ons
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Rocky Mountain National Park

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Rocky Mountain National Park
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Bryce Canyon National Park

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Bryce Canyon National Park
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Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks

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Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks
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A Minimal List of Useful Gear for Traveling with Kids

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A Minimal List of Useful Gear for Traveling with Kids
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Yosemite National Park

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Yosemite National Park
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Pinnacles National Park

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Pinnacles National Park
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Channel Islands National Park

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Channel Islands National Park
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Panama City Beach, Florida

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Panama City Beach, Florida
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A Complete Guide to Visiting American Samoa

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A Complete Guide to Visiting American Samoa
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National Park of American Samoa

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National Park of American Samoa
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5 Don't-Miss Spots in Samoa, Plus 3 Don't-Miss Experiences

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5 Don't-Miss Spots in Samoa, Plus 3 Don't-Miss Experiences
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If You Visit Samoa, You Should Stay in a Fale—Here's Why!

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If You Visit Samoa, You Should Stay in a Fale—Here's Why!
David BowmanMay 09, 20181 Comment

3 Weeks in New Zealand—An Itinerary

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3 Weeks in New Zealand—An Itinerary
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A Few Hot Tips for Hot Water Beach, New Zealand

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A Few Hot Tips for Hot Water Beach, New Zealand
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10 Favorite Spots in Australia

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10 Favorite Spots in Australia
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One Love-Filled Week in the Philippines

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One Love-Filled Week in the Philippines
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Arches National Park

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Arches National Park
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Canyonlands National Park

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Canyonlands National Park
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White Sands National Monument

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White Sands National Monument
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10 Things We Learned At Havasupai

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10 Things We Learned At Havasupai
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Big Bend National Park

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Big Bend National Park
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park

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Guadalupe Mountains National Park

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Bryce Canyon is a tiny park, but it packs a lot of magic in that acreage! On our first day, we explored the Queen’s Garden and Navajo Loop Trails, two of the park’s most popular. It was a stunning introduction to the hoodoos, fins and windows that put Bryce on the map. The next day we set out on a longer adventure around the Fairyland Loop, an aptly named, 8-mile trek along the rim and through the canyon’s hoodoos, with a picture around every corner. Utah, man. This state is bonkers good!
We’ve been loving reading your responses to our question on yesterday’s post! Most popular responses: Zion, Yosemite and Glacier, which would be three of our top choices as well! But we also feel like almost any park in the system could support a lifetime’s exploration (in the case of Hot Springs, maybe just a lifetime’s spa-going 😉)—it’s an incredible gift to have these places preserved!
We get asked all the time what our favorite national park is—and we’re terrible at giving a straight answer because we’re obsessed with so many of them. But even though, for parks lovers, it’s a crazy hard question, we’re still curious: if you could only visit one national park for the rest of your life (unlimited visits allowed, but only to one park!), which would it be?
“Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.” —Richard Louv ❤️
Whenever we’re in a park, I wonder what the first settlers coming across this stuff in the wild must have thought of it. I always imagine them being wonderstruck, but then we learned all this pioneer history about Bryce Canyon and they all seemed pretty stoic about it, like “Meh, I can’t ranch that” 😅. I guess my fantasies about living 150 years ago and stumbling upon nature’s untrammeled wonders didn’t take into account that I’d mostly be worried about where I was going to graze my cattle and plant my corn 😉.