Merry Christmas!

By Paul and Lisa | Dec 25, 2012
Posted in: Travel |

Wow, what a year. Thanks for joining us! We hope your holiday travel plans go as smooth as the white sands of New Mexico.

Can't wait for our plates to look like this again!

Happy Thanksgiving 2012!

By Paul and Lisa | Nov 21, 2012
Posted in: Food |

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Well, this is the blog’s second Thanksgiving. Last year, we jumped on a plane in Phoenix and flew to Wisconsin. This year, we’re doing the drive from Trumansburg to Wisconsin. We’ve got CoCoVan filled with bottles of our local, Finger Lakes wine (and some French stuff too). It should be a delicious day! An no TSA, hooray! We hope you all have wonderful turkey-fueled feasts planned with your friends and families. [...]

Happy Labor Day 2012!

By Paul and Lisa | Sep 3, 2012
Posted in: Schedule |

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We’re hoping everyone has a great Labor Day trip in progress today (or at least some enjoyable rest and relaxation). We’re back in the Midwest bouncing around between friends and family. Next weekend we head to London! We can’t wait.

Grand Tetons Photography: Easier Than We Thought

By Paul and Lisa | Jun 25, 2012
Posted in: Parks, Wyoming |

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There are so many awesome photos of the Grand Tetons. They’re amazing mountains. And then there are the ones with that barn, that perfectly shaped and aged bar in the foreground. Others have snow and fog and buffalo as well. There are a lot of fantastic pictures of the park … because it’s fantastically easy to get a good photo. The place is just photogenic. All the beautiful stuff is [...]

Lies, damn lies, and out-of-date websites.

Monument Valley Navajo Park Campground is Closed. Now Update Your Website!

By Paul and Lisa | May 30, 2012
Posted in: Arizona, Parks, Utah |

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One of the toughest things to deal with on the trip is outdated information. We have this camping guidebook from 2007, and its prices are sometimes off by a factor of 3x (ahem, California), sometimes still spot-on. It’s still useful when we don’t have internet service or phone service. We’ve learned to live with prices changing. That’s fine, we understand that they go up. But if something is closed, and [...]

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We have framed prints for sale!

By Paul and Lisa | Feb 29, 2012
Posted in: Travel |

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We’ve uploaded a few of our favorite photos to CafePress so we can sell prints. Take a look at the Driving Inertia Store — we’ll be adding more photos as we continue to travel and continue to sort through all the thousands of photos we’ve taken so far. And if you see a picture on the site you’d like to put on your wall, contact us with the info and [...]

Photos of Rhyolite, Nevada, Death Valley’s Best Ghost Town

By Paul and Lisa | Jan 4, 2012
Posted in: Nevada |

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Rhyolite was a boom town thanks to a successful gold mine. A series of uncontrollable financial disasters led the town to ruin though the mine wasn’t depleted until the late ’90s. Many of the original buildings were moved to new towns. Others were stripped of their precious construction materials, especially the wood. Wood was rare and very expensive to get in the the desert. Textures of Decay Paul became fascinated with the [...]

Biosphere 2 -- maybe we should live instead of the van?

Katherine Landing: A Hawaiian Port Town In The Middle Of The Desert

By Paul and Lisa | Dec 26, 2011
Posted in: Arizona |

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After the burro-filled main street of Oatman, AZ and a 10-mile stint on a dirt road through the mountains, the last thing we expected to find was a harbor town, but that’s exactly what was waiting for us at Katherine Landing, located near the south end of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. There’s a Hawaiian-looking motel, enough gas pumps to fill a dozen boats at once, countless seagulls, speedboats [...]

One of the lungs -- the middle ceiling rises and falls to equalize the pressure when sealed. Otherwise it would blow out on hot days.

Biosphere 2 is Dying

By Paul and Lisa | Dec 7, 2011
Posted in: Arizona |

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If you grew up when we grew up, chances are you learned about the Biosphere 2 project in science class. Maybe you even read about it in Ranger Rick magazine. It was a hugely ambitious project — recreate the earth (aka Biosphere 1) so that people could live inside entirely self-sufficient. Some called it a failure because people only lived in there for two entire years, but they were calorie and oxygen deprived. However, [...]