Mindy Miller

There’s something wildly liberating about rolling into a national park solo, climbing out of your rig, and heading straight for the trail. On a recent solo trip in Dustcatcher (my trusty truck camper), I got to experience that kind of freedom firsthand in Grand Teton National Park, and I want to help you do the …

They say dreams don’t work unless you do, and I admit, I’ve been working. After years of planning and stubbornly chasing a life of freedom and fresh wonder, I finally got the keys to my next big adventure: meet Dustcatcher, a white F350 4×4 with a Lance 805 camper riding proudly on its back. Dustcatcher …

After a long day of working in the OR, most people dream of a couch and some quiet. Me? I pointed Dustcatcher west and chased Vance to the shores of Palisades Reservoir for an evening of shoreline fishing, and I’d do it again in a heartbeat. Palisades Reservoir straddles the Idaho-Wyoming border and is one …

There is something uniquely humbling about riding a ski lift for the first time at 45 years old. Clipping into your skis, loading the chair, and letting it carry you all the way to the top of the mountain, with the growing awareness that there is no turning back, was more unsettling than I expected. …

There are some hikes that instantly take my breath away, and the Donner Peak trail was one of those. With this hike being less than 4 miles and under a 1,000 ft elevation gain, I wasn’t expecting the views I was about to receive! Nor did I realize what gnarly beauty I was about to …

Tucked deep in the heart of the Wind River Range, Squaretop Mountain rises like a giant tree stump above the Green River Lakes, a striking sentinel and the most photographed peak in the area. When my wild-hearted friend Jen flew across the country from Florida to visit me in Wyoming, I knew exactly where to …

So it turns out that a lack of planning can lead to ridiculously amazing experiences when you’re traveling 😉 Vance and I discovered Summer Lake Hot Springs totally by chance. Our destination on this leg of our journey would ultimately be Reno, but luckily we had a handful of free days to play with and …

We thought we were heading up for a classic early October fall hike. Golden aspens. Crisp air. Maybe a light frost dusting the grass at the lake. Instead, we walked straight into winter’s opening act. When I took my sister, her husband, and our friend Christine up to Strawberry Lake this time, the valley floor …

I’ve camped off-grid plenty of times in my life, but this was my first time doing it solo. No service, no GPS, no lifeline. Just me, Dustcatcher, and a little forest road leading into the unknown. Cottonwood Lake, tucked just 14 miles outside of Afton, WY, came highly recommended by locals. Their advice was spot …

They call it a “fine city.” Our taxi driver grinned when he said it. “You know why, right?” No chewing gum imports since 1992. Fines for littering. Fines for just about everything. But after a few days in Singapore, what struck us most wasn’t the rules. It was the openness. The pride. The sense that …