Our Travels & Adventures

Over the past year, nights spent sleeping in a house have been the exception, not the rule, and I have continued to work remotely full-time while we traveled to the northern reaches of Alaska and Canada, and all the way down the Baja peninsula and back. Here’s how I do it:

Over the years, we have slowly refined the ways in which we find amazing campsites, but certainly not without some trial and error so here are some of our top tips and tricks and favorite tools for how to find camp.

Under a blanket of afternoon storm clouds and wildfire smoke, we nervously turned north onto the Dempster Highway. This almost completely gravel highway stretches 737km (458 miles) north to Inuvik, NT and to the small village of Tuktoyuktuk, NT, the furthest point north in Canada that you can drive to from the mainland.

Pulling away from Watson Lake there was a lot of uncertainty in our route ahead. With the newfound information that fires were potentially blocking our most direct route north we were setting off with our fingers crossed that we would be able to make our planned route without issue.

With Smithers behind us we were once again rapidly north-bound. Not long after leaving town we came to our next major turning point where we would turn onto the 874 km (543 mi) long Stewart-Cassiar highway.

We said our goodbyes to Christina’s family and climbed back into the seats of our truck, Dolores. With full hearts from spending so much quality time with family we were setting off once again, but this time, into fully new territory for both of us. It was time for our first international border crossing in Dolores!

With the truck fully packed by mid-day, we closed the front door of our house one final time for the summer and jumped into the driver and passenger seats of Dolores, pulled the truck doors shut and turned the ignition key. From that moment on, we would call our truck home for the rest of the summer…

This summer, the rough plan is to drive from our home in Carbondale, Colorado to Alaska through Canada on a roughly 10,000 mile round-trip journey over the course of about 4 months…

Early last spring we took a trip down to southern Utah and had a blast pushing Peanut into some beautiful new areas. Too bad we lost the SD card that had all the gnarly 4x4ing footage! We’ll just have to go back.

If someone told me a year ago that I’d be having fun fly fishing in 25F degree weather, I would have thought they were crazy.

This particular weekend, we decided to attempt to hike to a remote slot canyon that had eluded us a few years back but this time, armed with better route beta, a slightly more capable vehicle, and many more miles of off-road driving under our belts, we were ready to give it another shot!

With a big snow storm rolling in over Valentine’s Day, we decided that it’d be fun to take Peanut out to go get snowed in and test out our winter camping set up.

The Colorado Backcountry Discovery Route has been something that I’ve been wanting to do for a while. In mid August we completed the section closest to us that connects Leadville to Gypsum with with the intentions of doing the trip over three days and two nights.