brian hill and dee power camping and travel adventures
One critical element of camping in a tent is keeping fresh food cold … and that means ice in an air tight cooler. Before we started this adventure we experimented with not using the refrigerator -just a cooler. We went a full week with only the cooler and then three days with no ice. That Continue Reading
I don’t know why God made mosquitoes. They aren’t part of the insect garbage crew like beetles and cockroaches. They don’t service plants and flowers with pollination such as bees and butterflies. Their only purpose, as far as I can tell, is to harass, torment and bite. And that they have. Bite. In spades. It’s Continue Reading
Pine Grove campground is tucked away in guess what? … a pine grove, located about a 30 minute drive from Flagstaff and only 15 minutes from Lake Mary. The drive from I 17 is gorgeous with either tall pines on either side or the Lake on one side and the forest on the other. Pine Continue Reading
Theoretically we’re in the cool pines, but not this trip. It reached close to 100 degrees each day for the week we were here. I snagged a payment envelope at the main entrance. Most of the sites were reserved for the weekend so we were in a hurry to find a walk up — first Continue Reading
This is the first leg of a long trip. We planned on going up to Payson which is at an elevation of 5,300 feet so it’s about 15 degrees cooler than Phoenix. It’s about a 3 hour drive. Before leaving we checked the reservations for Houston Mesa campground. There were a few spaces left and Continue Reading