Camping – The Life and Times of Jamie Lyssa

Thanksgiving in Oklahoma

I just came back from about three nights in Oklahoma. In the summer, we had decided to revisit the River’s Edge Cottages after our trip…

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, then you know that one of my life’s goals is to visit all 50 states in…

As Charles Dickens said, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” But we’ll get to that in a little while.…

Let me preface this entry by saying, if you expect Roswell to really be cashing in on the whole alien thing, you’ll be absolutely disappointed…

Justin and I just got back from a brief trip to New Mexico. It was our third attempt to visit Carlsbad Caverns, and I’m happy…

Hello! I’m Justin, or JZ, and I handle the boring bits of the adventures that we take. Maybe not so boring, as I’m actually taking…

The next day we left Big Bend National Park, and headed towards Carlsbad, New Mexico, for what we hoped would be another awesome camping experience,…

Justin and I slept well the second night we were at Big Bend because we actually remembered to close our rainfly this time. I even…

As soon as we got home from school on the 16th, we started packing the car for our trip. Originally, we were just going to…

Arco, ID was the first community in the world ever lit by nuclear power on July 17th, 1955. On January 3rd, 1961, the reactor melted…