Well, not Fall only, but being a big fan of Fall road trips, I was thrilled to see four new very tempting ebook titles from Fodor’s enter the eBookPie eBook store catalog, and all focused on travel in national parks.
During the summer vacation months we tend to throw down the anchor on our mobile office and hunker down with our laptops while the summertime throngs swarm the highways and national parks. But come fall, relative peace returns to road ways, the pulse of places like Yellowstone and Grand Canyon drops a few notches, and while you never know when the weather might turn in the northern reaches of Wyoming and Montana, September is a fairly good bet to be glorious.
We’re particularly excited by the new Yellowstone guide. One of our favorite areas to park our mobile office in the Fall is along a river not far from the west gate of Yellowstone. On a very good day, when we can manage to carve a gap between the piles of email, programming design and customer service demands that snowball daily, we like to drop our fly lines in the Firehole river or take a drive out to Lamar Valley and see if we can’t put the spotting scope on a meandering grizzly.
But Yellowstone can be unpredicatable. Wildlife sometimes visibly abounds. Some days you can’t drive a mile without encountering a field of green generously sprinkled with buffalo and elk. You might spot an eagle nesting near the road way, and any time you come across a group of people all pointing their spotting scopes in one direction you are likely near either a pack of wolves feeding after a kill or maybe a grizzly and her cubs considering whether to take over the feast.
Yet we’ve driven through the park on other days and saw neither hide nor hair of anything resembling wildlife. Curious, but somehow it didn’t matter much. We took pleasure instead from the many waterfalls, twisting streams and towering snow capped peaks of the Grand Tetons. It remains a favorite regional office for eBookPie. If time and schedules permitted we’d probably plant ourselves somewhere nearby the Yellowstone area from May to October every year. Someday.
We’ve spent a fair amount of time working from various locations amidst the canyonlands of Arizona and Utah as well, usually later in the fall or early winter. Maintaining our communication networks is a little more challenging in the Utah canyons however. We can almost always find a satellite signal to stay online with as long as we have an open view of a south facing sky, but cell signals are spottier in that region than probably anywhere else in the US. Still, we can usually make it work with a little effort, and it is worth the effort when it means an office view of Brice, Zion, the Canyonlands and so many other spectacular vistas in the Utah area. Or cross down to Arizona and you have 21 National Parks, Monuments and Historic sites to choose from, including the Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree, Organ Pipe…sometimes it is hard to pick a place and stop – you just want to see all of it.
Then there is California. Because we have so much family in both the north and south of California we probably spend less time in our mobile office there than any other state, yet the richness of national park beauty is as great as anywhere. We just need a long holiday to see it all. Someday.
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