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Baja 2022, Part 1, The Border Crossing

Post author:Occidental
Post published:2022-01-31
Post category:Baja Exploring
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We ventured south of the border to Baja Mexico for our first time, in January 2022. As with any trip, a big portion of it is the planning and anticipation, but for this trip, being it involved leaving the country and venturing to a place we hadn’t been, then throw in the fact that there’s another language involved, well, there was a bit of work too do to prep for this trip. This post will cover a bit of trip prep for Baja as well as our experience crossing the border, then we’ll get to the actual trip in following posts. Hopefully this post will be useful to those who are considering or planning a trip in the future.

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Christmas Tree Hunt, 2021

Post author:Occidental
Post published:2021-12-18
Post category:Exploring Fishing
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We went out to the woods in search of our Christmas Tree. We stopped off for some fishing, and did a little pie iron cooking along the way. Since it's December it's also officially meteorological winter, so this is also a winter camping trip! We hope you enjoy the trip, we sure did. https://youtu.be/WMTPj-aFUL4

Death Valley, 2021, Part 2

Post author:Occidental
Post published:2021-12-10
Post category:California Exploring
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This post continues our Thanksgiving trip to Death Valley, see part 1 for the story up to now.

After a quiet night in the pinyons we were up and breaking down camp as the sun shone on the ridge. Reviewing a couple books and maps we picked out a couple highlights to check out as we worked our way though Saline Valley but the main objective was pretty loose, just check things out and see what we could see.

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