Hoop Trek Travel

A few weeks ago I was on a 10-day road trip through the Southern Utah desert and on the sixth day I headed to a coffee shop to catch up on some work. To my horror, I couldn’t find my laptop charger anywhere. After frantically tearing apart my car I called home to hear, “You [...]

I love natural hot springs. I love their obscure locations, the peculiar geological formations they create, and the eccentric characters they attract. There’s something about hot effervescent water bubbling up from somewhere deep within the Earth’s core that fosters a sense of wonder and respect towards our natural world. My search for strange and wonderful [...]

On our first morning in Hanalei, we awoke to the sound of someone not so pleasantly knocking on our tent at 6am. I covered myself with a blanket and stuck my head out of the tent still cloudy from too many Longboard Lagers the night before, “Say huh?” The man dressed in park ranger garb [...]

Being the petroglyph aficionado that I am, a brochure for the Legend Rock State Petroglyph Area caught my eye outside the Thermopolis State Bath House.  I asked the bathhouse attendant how far away the petroglyph site was and he blatantly ignored me and just kept going about his business. I browsed the brochure a little [...]

Many travel bloggers have been reviewing boutique hotels and luxurious lodges on their blogs lately so I thought it would be fun if I started reviewing um some of the fabulous “eco-lodges” that I have been staying in.  Welcome to my new series… um fabulous nature lodges. Resting alongside the Popo Aggie River in a [...]

Like most western states, Idaho has a ton of non-commercial, rustic hot springs on public lands.  According to the folks at Hot Springs Enthusiast, Idaho has some 232 hot springs, which is more than any other state in the US.  Many of these hot springs are concentrated along the Salmon River in the central part [...]

The air temperature was 103 degrees and we were about to step into a 104-degree pool. We were taking the day off from climbing at Wild Iris near Lander, WY and wound up at Hot Springs State Park in Thermopolis.  We heard they had free showers and it had been… well I don’t dare tell [...]

My love affair for Nevada began in the spring of 2007. I was young to the road and Nevada made all my dreams of surviving off of $15 a day a reality. Nevada holds a very special place in its heart for the adventure-driven, solace seeking traveler – the kind of traveler that finds Las [...]

South Canyon Springs is an interesting alternative to the commercial hot springs in the Glenwood Springs area.  South Canyon Hot Springs consists of two small hippy pools located up on a hillside with great views of the surrounding mountains.  We visited the springs in June of 2009 and found only one of the two pots [...]

Norris Hot Springs, Water of the Gods is a trippy little commercial hot spring about a half hour drive outside of Bozeman, Montana. The 30 x 40 foot pool was super clean and at 106 degrees F the pool was perfect for winter soaking . Wood planks line the pool and the artesian spring bubbles [...]