I wasn’t going to do a year-in-review post this year, because no one ever reads these posts. Well, besides me. I suffer from a medical malady called CRS, so these posts do a yeoman’s job of summarizing our debacles during the previous twelve months. My guess is we stuck our toes in about 25-30 states… Read More 2025 in Review – Dec 2025
Once again, Karen’s poor behavior has caused us to get thrown out of yet another perfectly good campground. So, we hit the road and got halfway between LA and Las Vegas where we stopped for the night in the gravel parking lot of Peggy Sue’s Diner. Nothing is too good for my bride – what… Read More Southern California – Nov 2025
You’re probably thinking Ace Ventura. Not so fast, Rubberneck. We’re talking Ventura, California, north of LA and south of Santa Barbara on the Pacific coast. Ventura turns out to be a most awesome place, and in particular our campground, the Waypoint Ventura Vintage Trailer Hotel and Campground. Talk about nice weather! You could train a… Read More Cute Puppy, Ventura – Nov 2025
Because we had never been there but had heard great comments, on route to our next planned destination, we stopped to just drive through Valley of Fire State Park. This is a stunning state park, and we are so glad we did. When we entered the park, we explained to the ranger that we were… Read More Valley of Fire State Park – Oct 2025
Keeping the Utah theme going, we spent a few days at Snow Canyon State Park in Ivins, UT, near St. George. As you might expect from its location in southwest Utah, the views are fabulous – petrified dunes, lava flows, and sandstone peaks and walls. Aside from being in the general Zion area, it is… Read More Snow Canyon State Park – Oct 2025
Like most national parks, there’s not a lot of explaining to do – the views speak for themselves. And so it is with Zion National Park. It has been years since we last visited Zion, and of course it maintains its beauty. Even during this government shutdown, the park remains open, although with somewhat limited… Read More Zion National Park – Oct 2025
I say Utah (like we’re reporting on the whole state), but really, we are talking about the southeast corner of the state in San Juan County, which is less than 10% of the Utah land mass (I looked it up). We could probably fit most of New England into Utah, size-wise. And truth be told,… Read More Utah – Oct 2025
We departed Denver heading west to the Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. While we generally try to avoid interstate travel, I-70 west of Denver to Grand Junction has got to be one of the prettiest sections of interstate highways in the country. Heading into the foothills past Golden, Evergreen, and Idaho Springs… Read More Western Slope – Oct 2025
We made an encore return to Denver, primarily to visit Child Units 2A and 2B; always a great time. We explained to them long ago they can run but they can’t hide. Our time included laughing, eating, golf, Monopoly Deal, and just a whole lot of fun. The weather was primo, other than one day… Read More Denver – Oct 2025
Having never been to Heavenly Mountain previously, and having now skied there, I can report back that Heavenly is heavenly. While the snow has been light so far this season, the conditions were fabulous, and can I just say that peering out over Lake Tahoe on a bluebird day is not awful. To back up,… Read More Heavenly – Jan 2025
As our last, full-on camping destination, we camped at Catalina State Park, a little bit north and east of downtown Tucson in Oro Valley. This is a fabulous campground, on the foothills of the 9,000+ foot Santa Catalina Mountains (altitude at the campsite is about 2,600 feet), with tons of hiking and biking trails available,… Read More Tucson (Catalina SP) – Jan 2025
Tucson is such a beautiful place – a desert city surrounded by mountains that erupt to thousands of feet above the desert floor. What you miss in photographs is the fact that in almost any direction you turn your head, you are exposed to deep blue skies, gorgeous desert views, and staggeringly beautiful mountains. Tucson… Read More Tucson (Gilbert Ray Campground) – Jan 2025
While in the general Phoenix area we spent a few nights at Cave Creek Regional Park in Cave Creek, AZ. I’ll get to our camping experience but first a couple of observations about greater Phoenix drivers. There’s about a 5:1 ratio of signage protecting animals over pedestrians and cyclists. If you are a pedestrian and… Read More Cave Creek Regional Campground – Jan 2025
One of the beauties of McDowell Mountain Regional Park, located in northern Maricopa Count in Fountain Hills, AZ is that you are surrounded by beauty and quiet, and yet you are a short drive from a host of interesting things to do in the general Phoenix/Scottsdale area. We have stayed here multiple times over the… Read More McDowell Regional Park – Jan 2025
We are poking around Arizona for a few weeks and have started at one of our “tried and true” campgrounds – Lost Dutchman State Park in Apache Junction, AZ. Leaving New Mexico, we headed down blue highways, and along the way encountered Thomasz Sobania, from Poland, who is running across the US (3,300 miles), east… Read More On the Road to Lost Dutchman – Jan 2025
Not School of Rock. City of Rocks, in Faywood, NM. What? You don’t know where Faywood is? Neither did we. But, located in Faywood is City of Rocks State Park, and this you don’t want to miss. I don’t know if this post will resonate with anyone else, but this campground was right in our… Read More City of Rocks – Jan 2025
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. These words from the iconic poem, The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost, capture much of the nature of… Read More The Road Not Taken – Dec 2024
“The journey is the destination.” (Reverend Niles, from his forthcoming book, Hold My Beer) Wow! It has been 10 years since TravelwiththeSlowskys first posted! Happy Anniversary to us! It was 10 years ago this month that we created our Slowsky travel blog. Our first post was about the Canyonlands National Park (technically, we visited in… Read More Slowsky Blog’s 10th Year Anniversary – July 2024
As happens every year at this time, I sit down to recap the year, and I think to myself, what the hell did we do? If this didn’t happen to me every year, I might think I was losing my mind. It could be the horse is already out of the barn. Karen had her… Read More 2023 in Review – Dec 2023
I am kind of excited about a new feature on our web site – the Slowsky Map! At the top of the travelwiththeslowskys.com home page, you will find a button to click called Slowsky Map. The map is intended to provide an easy-to-use way for you to find our experiences (previous posts) geographically. If you… Read More New Blog Feature! – Apr 2023
Any excuse to go see your kids is a great excuse. We didn’t need an excuse, so off to Denver we went, since it was right on our way to… well, Denver. Queue whisper-like Nat Geo voice: “Here you see the Child Unit in its’ native habitat.” We camped at our go-to campground, Cherry Creek… Read More Denver – Oct 2020
Since this is (arguably) a travel blog, I thought I might talk about… travel. You can be forgiven if you have already forgotten what “travel” is. Perhaps this is where you queue the Dave Matthews Band, The Space Between… or the Eagles, Taking it Easy. This post in particular is about tweens. No, not teens,… Read More Tweens – May 2020
Well, another year in the books at Steamboat Springs, CO! Damn, what a great place, great skiing, beautiful area – and the opportunity to spend time with Child Unit 2 and friends! It does not get better. You know it has to be a worthy place to go if it gets me up before the… Read More Steamboat – Mar 2020
It doesn’t seem possible, but at the end of this month (technically a month later for Karen) we will have been retired for 5 years! What the hell have we done? Retirement, for those uninitiated, is when you shovel your driveway down to bare pavement two hours after a major storm. Being anal retentive helps. Retirement is… Read More 5 Years Post Retirement – Mar 2019
We visited hell, devastation, chaos, and boiling mud. No, not the nightly news – Lassen Volcanic National Park, in northern California at the southern tip of the Cascade Range. We seem to be entering our “volcanic” period. I guess like volcanoes themselves, you don’t plan for this period. They just happen. Volcanoes happen, as the saying… Read More Lassen Volcanic NP – July 2018
We visited Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa, CA for the July 4th week. Nice!! Santa Cruz. In Santa Cruz we visited with my niece and her family – always great to see them! We camped in a marina – there is a “campground” (about a dozen paved parking spaces with full hookup) in the Santa… Read More 4th of July Week – 2018
Long post – settle in with a cup of coffee or a cold beer (or two) – a lot of ground to cover. Anyone who has ever had the good fortune to visit or live in Santa Barbara, CA knows how beautiful and how much character this town has. We are here in Santa Barbara… Read More Santa Barbara – June 2018
As the preeminent surfer dude (not), I think I can report to you on Pismo Beach on the California coast. Gnarly, dude. That’s my report. Clutched in a sliver of land between US 101 and the Pacific Ocean, and about 2 hours north of Santa Barbara, Pismo Beach is kind of a cool little town. Granted… Read More Pismo Beach (CA) – June 2018
I may have found my favorite shiny new object… the town of Lee Vining, CA! We camped here for about a week for a variety of reasons, but one the weather was so cool, as was the town (population 395 on the sign entering the town). The town just had a cool vibe – what… Read More Lee Vining (CA) – June 2018
We have been camped in Lee Vining (CA) for a little bit, affording us time to visit Yosemite National Park. More on Lee Vining later, but in or close to Lee Vining on the eastern slope of the Eastern Sierra’s is Mono Lake and the Mono Lake Basin. Mono Lake has a really interesting story,… Read More Mono Lake – June 2018