Author: Jennifer MacNeil

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Way Over Yonder

May 16, 2022 I have finished my first week as a work camper and it has been harder than I had imagined it would be.  However, it will get to the good part soon enough and I’ll be doing a victory dance.  Nothing is ever all hard of course, there’s plenty of good times and relaxing time in between the parts where I’m the new kid at work making mistakes.   So here I am at a campground for the first time in many months.  Each campground seems to have its own kind of culture and etiquette.  This campground is definitely swanky and they…

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Way Over Yonder

ATV Adventures to Over Yonder

May 9, 2022 For our last few days camping in Mt Carmel, we packed in some good stuff.  We made the drive to St. George, Utah to stock up on our sensitive tummy dog food that we could not find at smaller local stores and to visit some hiking outfitters where I bought a quality pair of hiking sandals.  After doing a couple of short hikes in sugar sand, I realized these would be a nice thing to have for the summer as hiking in boots is not always the most practical or comfortable solution in the Southwest.  On the drive out there, we…

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ATV Adventures to Over Yonder

Southern Utah, the Greatest Earth on Show

May 2, 2022 As promised, things improved this past week.  It’s really quite difficult to stay grumpy when in such a beautiful place as we are.  We found a body shop in Kanab who said they would be able to fix the truck and so we started the process of an insurance claim as we have damage to our window frame as well that would need to be fixed before they can install a new window for us.  While we were there, we talked with a local for a while who told me about some great hikes nearby.  I told him about my plans…

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Southern Utah, the Greatest Earth on Show

The Road to Ruin

April 25, 2022 Just as it started to get a bit too hot in Marble Canyon, we moved up to Mount Carmel, Utah so we could explore a new area and meet up with some friends staying in Kanab.  Though Marble Canyon was beautiful, our location had frequent high winds!  One of the last days we were there, I made my fabulous rock art before we left on an open patch of sand next to our campsite.  The rocks here are so sharp and rough that my fingerprint no longer unlocked my passwords on my MacBook for a few days afterward!  I also took…

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The Road to Ruin

White Pocket is Madness!

April 18, 2022 Happy belated Easter for those of you who celebrate this day.  I grew up with Easter being one of the big holidays.  My parents were religious and my stepfather was a minister so we always went to church and made this day special.  My step-sister Julie and I insisted on Easter candy hunts way past the age we should have and our parents were great about playing along.  My step-father was always really good at finding unique hiding spots.  Sometimes, this was to his detriment as we would find a piece of gross melted candy months later.  My mother always cooked…

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White Pocket is Madness!

Hanging Around Near the North Rim

April 11, 2022 For our last couple of days in Holbrook, AZ we entertained the possibility of purchasing a piece of land containing painted desert.  As it turns out, undeveloped land is cheap and plentiful in this area and you are allowed to do just about anything you want with the land you purchase.  We looked at a few large plots that were 20-40 acres in Holbrook near the Uranium Springs camp we visited.  We talked to a man in the neighborhood who operates Alien Acres, a smallish plot of land where he lives in a school bus with his wife and dog and…

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Hanging Around Near the North Rim

Welcome to Holbrook, AZ: Land of Uranium Springs, the Painted Desert, Route 66, and an Amazing National Park

April 4, 2022 This week we had more adventures in and around Holbrook, AZ.  We got some chores done and were productive with our artistry of making videos and taking photos.  I’ll tell the story of the week in the order it happened for you so you can follow along in our adventures.   First, we had to bring our truck in for servicing.  We did this in a nice little town south of here called Snowflake.  We were waiting in their waiting room for a bit when a technician who seemed to be in charge told us that he follows us on YouTube.…

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Welcome to Holbrook, AZ: Land of Uranium Springs, the Painted Desert, Route 66, and an Amazing National Park

Petrified Forest National Park Amazed me!

March 28, 2022 This week was very busy after the slow winter we had.  First, we moved just north of Phoenix to Peoria to a section of land owned by Arizona Land Trust.  A permit for the year costs $15 and allows you to park on this land for up to 14 days per year so that’s just what we did.  We were parked in a desert with Saguaros all around us before dark.  We were even  able to fill up our water tank for free at Lake Pleasant just a few miles down the road.  We had great cell reception and the site…

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Petrified Forest National Park Amazed me!

The Business of Life and Getting Things Done

March 21, 2022 For those of you keeping up with this blog, I know I’m late with my entry this week and I sincerely apologize.  We made plans to move on further north at the beginning of the week so the day I normally do my writing, I was distracted with running errands to stock up on stuff like propane and dog food.  We also spent a good amount of time trying to figure out how to get more Heartgard for our dogs as we run out at the end of this month.  This is a medication you need to give your dogs year…

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The Business of Life and Getting Things Done

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