HMS Beangle

Welcome aboard! We're sailing across North America in our Bean Stalker teardrop trailer. Come share our journey.

Month: May 2025

  • The HMS Beangle meets Type 2 Fun

    The Scene: It’s a national holiday weekend. A dear friend has spent her hard-earned money to fly in for the weekend. A rustic campsite high in the mountains is reserved. After a long day of far too many commitments, Friday evening found the Beangle and I dropped off as 1) the campsite must be reserved…

  • A week under the wheels

    How do I do justice to such a strange turn in the road of our lives? We had our up and our downs. Big up, he found the driving pretty much a non-issue, despite having to go up Berthoud Pass (11,307 ft) and down its twisty switchbacks again. Major down, the storage garage we rented…

  • Dinosaur National Monument

    After a quick overnight at Wasatch Mountains State Park, we wended our way to Dinosaur National Monument outside of Jensen, Utah. Straddling two states, the most visited part, the covered dinosaur quarry exhibit, is in Utah. But there is so much more than just the Fossil Wall to see. We barely touched even the Utah…

  • The HMS Beangle

    There she is, The HMS Beangle, our made-to-order Bean Stalker. Although we will continue to keep a small patch in Colorful Colorado, we intend to spend as much time as possible in this lovely little teardrop trailer. The ever talented Miss Carmen will be personalizing it for us once we get home, after she has…