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Rocky Mountains

🎧 Circle of Life

TL;DR: Ventured into Wyoming and toured around Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks 🏔️, watched a territory fight between grizzly bears 🐻, hiked mountains and explored geysers 🥾, got Phoebe bogged 🚐, entered the Midwest and explored the Badlands National Park in South Dakota ⛰️, found wild horses in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota 🐴, headed west and made a quintessential campfire 🔥, traversed Beartooth Highway pass in Montana 🗻, visited the City of Hayden in Idaho 🙋🏼‍♂️

For those catching up, the first blog was in Southern California, and second in the American Southwest. We pick up the action below in Wyoming…

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American Southwest

🎧 (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66

TL;DR: Drove Route 66 in Arizona, hiked Sedona’s trails, explored the Vermilion Cliffs and Colorado River, kayaked Antelope Canyon, hiked to The Wave, crossed into Utah, explored Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef National Parks, prepared to continue north

A relaxed start to our first day in Arizona quickly turned into some white-knuckled offroad driving. We were down near Hoover Dam, and the only other vehicles in sight were giant American “trucks”; basically, oversized utes. It became clear why — the steep gravel track out was unpassable to any vehicle only three days earlier. The four tonne Phoebe and her lion-heart were undeterred. So we fired up her 6.2L V8 engine and set off.

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Southern California

🎧 California Dreamin’

TL;DR: Left New York for California, acquired a campervan and named her Phoebe, fixed Phoebe’s plumbing, explored SoCal, survived Death Valley and headed further inland

When Sarah and I planned our flight out of New York, we quickly discovered flight paths were even more unreliable than usual domestic travel. The most consistent flight was New York to Los Angeles, so this set the first state of the adventure, California. Our route from here was primarily determined by which National Parks re-opened first.

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