RHH's photos with the keyword: van

Those who have been following my posts will remember that we drove two full days to get to Texas from Washington. We went first to San Antonio and spent two days there enjoying a beautiful guesthouse that some of our children had booked for us. We left San Antonio on a Friday morning and drove on to Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas, a place I had always wanted to visited, and arrived there mid-afternoon. We can in the north entrance, stopped at the Panther Gap Visitors' Center and then drove a bit west on the main road and back north on a very rough gravel road to the Grapevine Hills area. We drove first to our campsite, really nothing more than a turnoff with no amenities except a bear box and then drove part of the way back down the road to the trailhead for Balanced Rock where we spent the rest of the afternoon and the early evening hiking before returning to our campsite for the night. The rest of the photos are of the area where we camped and there is one photo of our van parked in our campsite.

This is our van parked in our campsite in the Grapevine Hills area of Big Bend National Park. We had our inflatable kayak and backpacks in the cartop carrier and slept in the back of the van with our backpacking sleeping bags. We also have a small cupboard for our food and cooking gear and can put up curtains if we want, though we did not need them here.

No, the photo is not slanted. These were some of the formations along the Grapevine Hills Road in Big Bend National Park in Texas. We were on our way to our campsite when we stopped along the road for this and other photos.

After arriving in Big Bend National Park mid-afternoon we drove the Grapevine Hills road to our first campsite, just a place in the backcountry to park our vehicle for the night. After stopping in at the campsite we drove back down the road to the traiolhead for Balanced Rock and spent the rest of the day hiking there.

Our first stop in Big Bend National Park was the Grapevine Hills area. We camped there a night and hiked there to Balanced Rock, this photo taken along the road to our campsite.

This was taken by my wife on the dirt road from Aguereberry Point in Death Valley National Park where we had watched the sunrise. This road was very rough in spots and one of the worst areas was just ahead of where the photo was taken. There was no one else around and so we felt safe stopping in the road for some photos. We would go on a few miles to the now abandoned Eureka Mine and nearby camp. The van is not only our transportation but our home away from home. My wife has made curtains for the inside and we use the deck for sleeping - we use our backpacking pads and sleeping bags and are comfortable and warm. We have our tiny backpacking stove along for meals and hot drinks.