It is hard to believe we are at the end of the year already, and that in less than twelve hours, it will be 2024!  It feels like it was just last month that I was sitting in this exact spot, writing out my goals for this past year!  Now, here I am, writing them out for 2024, along with my Year in Review post. 2023 was a little different for us, in that we didn’t do as much actual travelling.  We started the year in West Wendover, Nevada, and that is where we stayed for the better part of the year.  It is the longest that we have stayed…

  “All is calm, All is bright…”   Wherever this holiday season finds you, we wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, from our home to yours!  

  It has been a busy couple of months here at Scoutnabout.  We have been travelling and adventuring, and now it is (past) time to start getting some of these posts out that I have been promising.   So, sit back and buckle up, because our first adventure is going to take us to the world’s most preserved meteor impact site, located in northern Arizona- appropriately named, Meteor Crater. Meteor Crater is located in northern Arizona, about 20 miles west of Winslow, and 35 miles east of Flagstaff.  If you have a few hours to spend sightseeing in the area, it is definitely worth checking out, as it is so much…

I had never heard of HawkWatch until recently when we were looking into interesting day hikes that we could take. I love to find things of interest in the areas that we travel to that aren’t necessarily the popular sites or well known to everyone.  Sometimes the small, out of the way places have the best hidden gems!  So, before I start talking about our actual hike, I want to talk a little bit about HawkWatch itself – what it is and where it is located. HawkWatch International Founded in 1986, HawkWatch International is a non-profit organization that is based out of Salt Lake City, Utah.  Their main purpose is…

  I cannot believe how fast it seems this year has gone!  Time just moves faster and faster, and before I know it, the year is coming to an end.  Sometimes it feels like the year flew by so fast, that we didn’t get a chance to do everything we had planned.  The truth is, we probably didn’t, but as I scroll through my photos, I realize we still did quite a bit. Join us as we revisit some of the highlights of our travels and adventures of 2022… January We started the year off on the road. After making our way back to California (this is where we left…

  The Nevada desert offers little relief during the hot summer months.  Travel just 15 miles outside of the town of Wells though, and you will find that much needed relief in the form of a nice cool mountain lake surrounded by beautiful scenery! Angel Lake, nestled in the East Humbolt Mountain Range, sits at an elevation of over 8300 feet.  Surrounded by mountains and peaks, it sits in a valley carved out by glacial erosion.  Three sides of this lake are nature made – while one side is man made to dam the glacier water that forms the lake. Angel lake covers an area of approximately 13 acres, and…

  “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing”  –  Dr. Seuss   “Amazing” is a great way to describe the Valley of Fire! You would never expect that just 50 miles northeast of the bright lights and crowds that make up the Las Vegas Strip, is an area so breathtaking and colorful, you forget you are even in the Mojave desert.  Welcome to the Valley of Fire – a Nevada State Park of epic proportion! The Valley of Fire was formed about 150 million years ago, during the Jurassic Age, when the ocean floor began to rise, exposing the land to wind, creating a “shifting and…