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The Roaming Parkers are all about Travel, Adventure, Conservation, and Food! If you like those things too, then…

Read all about our Kilimanjaro trek that started it all!

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Largest creature on Earth

One of the largest creatures in the world lives almost 10,000 feet up the side of a mountain north of Bryce Canyon National Park between the little communities of Koosharem and…

Dinosaur Valley

One of our favorite state parks in Texas is Dinosaur Valley State Park. About a bajillion years ago a herd of dinosaurs waded down the Paluxi river followed by some big…

Stalagmen of Carlsbad

The Big Room of Carlsbad Caverns is the largest cavern in the U.S. At just over a mile in circumference, it is chock full of stalagmites, stalactites, columns, cave popcorn, flow…

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10 Essentials Africa 2021 Airstream Life Boy Scouts bucket lists Canoeing Mississippi Featured Fit, Well, & Healthy Great Smoky Mountains National Park Greece 2019 Headed West 2023 Kilimanjaro 2018 Leave No Trace Map & Compass Skills Montana 2022 Mount Saint Helens 2018 Namibia 1998-1999 NYC 2019 Shiloh Battlefield Story for Another Day Tuesday top 10 Wild Azalea Trail

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Best of 2022-2023

2022 was the year that we shifted our lifestyles to more travel and adventure and less job-related stress. We quit the jobs, pulled up roots, and took to the road working seasonal jobs in the north in the summers and the south in the winters. Our first workcamping gig for the summer of 2022 was…

Best of 2021-2022

The end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 was a slack time in our blogging lives but se were full speed ahead working our Exit Strategy — getting ready to quit the corporate work life, pull up roots, and begin a semi-nomadic life of travel and adventure. I (Patrick) spent most of my blogging…

BEST OF 2020- 2021

Month-by-Month through the pandemic with the Roaming Parkers June 2020 – Current River, Missouri July 2020 – Clear Springs Lake By this point we were getting stir crazy from everything being shut down because of the pandemic, so we bought a kayak and headed out to Clear Springs Lake for some outdoor social distancing! August…

BEST OF 2019-2020

Whew! the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 has been a crazy time for the Roaming Parkers – just like for everyone else in the world! Australian wildfires, threats of war with Iran and North Korea, and then worldwide CORONAVIRUS pandemic and financial meltdown! This, our third year of Travel, Adventure, Conservationhas been…

BEST OF 2018-2019

In this, our second year of Travel, Adventure, Conservation, we clarified a lot of our dreams and visions and got a lot closer to our goal of full-time Roaming by mid-2022! Check out some samples of our best articles from our second year as The Roaming Parkers! Travel We spent our second year recuperating from…

BEST OF 2017-2018

The Roaming Parkers are all about Travel, Adventure, Conservation, and Food! If you like those things too, then check out our first year of great content in each category! Travel Adventure Conservation Food      

Or look below for a few of the sample articles below!

Travel …especially foreign, scenic, exotic, sightseeing, tourism… Where do people from each American state like to go for vacation? Five foreign trips that the Roaming Parkers are planning! Why we want to climb Kilimanjaro? Sometimes it is surprising what you DON’T see when you travel The Roaming Parkers are all about travel!	Adventure …hiking, canoeing, backpacking, cycling… Five of the coolest, craziest adventures we are planning! How to purify drinking water in an emergency or in the backwoods? Five great paved walking trails in Mississippi An essential piece of adventure gear – a pocket knife! The Roaming Parkers are all about adventure!
Conservation …nature, ecology, sustainability, Leave No Trace…   What’s wrong with 4.5 million people visiting the Grand Canyon each year? How can I find out if my tap water is contaminated? The weather, flora, and fauna sure is strange this year! A tiny natural wonderland in Mississippi that became a dump The Roaming Parkers are all about Nature!	Food …foreign or ethnic traditional food, restaurant reviews, gardening, healthy eating, recipes… A food review for the Purple Parrot in Hattiesburg, Mississippi In the southern United States a tomato sandwich is a summer staple! The easiest way to fry fish These sweet pickled jalapenos are amazing and addictive! The Roaming Parkers are all about food!