by kaplanadmin | Aug 5, 2021 | Holiday, Vacation 2021
We got started with a 7:30 am departure from the campsite. Desi and Caroline made their way from the campsite to the Visitor Center. We took the Orange line to Kaibob Trail and began our 1 mile hike down into the canyon. On the way down into the the canyon we met some...
by kaplanadmin | Aug 4, 2021 | Holiday, Vacation 2021
Grand Canyon full day. We start with a horseback trail ride from apache stables. Riding 4 horses (rider), Brown Jug (Ellie), Raton (Caroline) , Beau (Julie), and Ben Kay (Desi). The highlight of the ride seemed to be around the bodily functions of the horses. Beau,...
by kaplanadmin | Aug 3, 2021 | Holiday, Vacation 2021
Today we took our time getting up and getting going as we have a long drive from Hurricane, UT to Grand Canyon National Park in AZ. The drive was amazing, the views were inspiring and breath taking. We stopped several times for pictures at various points along the...
by kaplanadmin | Aug 2, 2021 | Holiday, Vacation 2021
Today we made our way to Springdale, UT to get into Zion Park. We found parking for Thor, the massive RV. We went to go catch a bus but they kept all being full so we took a walk to the entrance to the Park. From there we caught the shuttle to the Zion Lodge. The...
by kaplanadmin | Aug 1, 2021 | Holiday, Vacation 2021
Today we are at the Barstow/Calico KOA right outside of Yerma, CA. We needed to get some laundry done, the girls wanted to get in some quality pool time, and we needed a rest day. The staff was really awesome at this campground. Desi spent sometime while doing laundry...
by kaplanadmin | Jul 31, 2021 | Holiday, Vacation 2021
iOur last day of hookup free camping. I would say it was a pleasure cruise but that would be a like. Each night for the last 3 nights, we have shut off all power to the RV so the alarms didn’t go off and let the fridge and freezer slowly heat up. Then when we...
by kaplanadmin | Jul 30, 2021 | Holiday, Vacation 2021
We got up early and hiked to mirror lake. It was about 4 miles round trip and took us about 2 hours. Mirror lake turned out to be more like a puddle, but we had an amazing perspective of El Capitan from the back of half-dome. After we got back, we had lunch, packed up...
by kaplanadmin | Jul 29, 2021 | Holiday, Vacation 2021
Today we went hiking. We did a nice hike up Vernal Falls. It was a pretty steep hike up nearly 1400ft. After a 2 mile hike there is still a very steep 650 step climb 0.3 miles to the top. Julie waited for the Desi and the girls at the bottom of the steps. It was just...
by kaplanadmin | Jul 28, 2021 | Holiday, Vacation 2021
This morning we got up and tried to make our way to Emerald bay. Sadly there was no parking for the RV and we drove there and had to make a U-turn to come back. After a few heated moments we decided to make a stop and look out over emerald bay. After some nice views...
by kaplanadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Holiday, Vacation 2021
We slept in again until 9am PST, after we got everybody up we met a nice staffer who gave us several good ideas of things to do. So we prepared ourselves for the day and started walking towards town. We thought we could all ride the Lime E-scooters but they were too...
