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Meandering the Blue Highways

We love long road trips and take at least two a year in our camper van. We're on our fourth: a 1986 VW Westy, still Doug's daily driver; a Pleasure Way Excel, too big and we kept it only a year; a Pleasure Way Traverse Ford poptop, bought used and took us 60,000 miles in four years until it needed a new engine; and now a Promaster 1500 with 136" wheelbase. We've already put over 60,000 miles on it in 4.5 years, including the pandemic when we were mostly homebound. We've been around the US, especially love the Southwest and Pacific Northwest, and have made three trips to Alaska. We've been to much of Canada, and are drawn to the Yukon. We travel with just a vague itinerary, follow our noses, and avoid highways. 

Arctic Circle, Yukon, Canada - 2022

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Message History

 May 23-26, 2026

    People often ask what our route is, where we're stopping and when. Our reply: well, we think we're going to this region and maybe we'll go here. But if we see something else along the way, we may go there instead.    Unusually, we had two planned stops on our May trip. The first was the Durango-Silverton R...

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May 21-22, 2026

    After our trek along Hell's Backbone Rd and breakfast in Escalante the next morning, we drove back toward Boulder on Utah's scenic Hwy 12. We wanted to explore the Burr Trail Rd<...

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May 20-21, 2026

    In 2025, we drove from Boulder to Escalante, Utah, on Route 12. It includes the 4-mile Hog's Back section with its steep drop offs on either side and no guardrails. This year we decided we should have even more excitement: Hell's B...

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 May 14-17, 2026

    The main reason for our Southwest trip this year was to ride on the 

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