Angel’s Landing: Hiking Zion National Park
Since 2004, six people have died falling from the cliffs on this route. “Your safety is in your hands,” the voice recording warns ominously as Zion National Park’s bus pulls […]
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting
An 8 mile hike through the burnt red amphitheater of Bryce Canyon National Park feels endless. Looping under vigilant arches, passing between the silhouettes of those iconic eroded pillars, the […]
Two Wheels to Hermit’s Rest: Biking the Grand Canyon
Solitude. Adventure. Copper ore. Whatever Louis Boucher hoped to find in the unexplored depths of Arizona’s Grand Canyon, it is now nearly as historic – unavailable – as the hermit himself. With over […]
Have you slept in a Wigwam Lately?
“I actually planned the entire trip around this,” Chris confesses as we creep her vehicle through the parking lot of the Wigwam Motel. Trucks and cars in light blue – a […]
Summer Dust Devils: Travel Playlist for an American Southwest Roadtrip
Manifest Destiny – that ol’ American concept of space as entitlement – becomes a wide, open reality west of the Rockies. From Utah’s Bryce Canyon down to the border towns […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background
(Brought to you by Weekly Photo Challenge.) Next stop on our southwest American road trip: Route 66, Holbrook and the Painted Desert.
Postage Stamp: See America
The start of a Road Trip – stocking up on a last-minute list of supplies, eagerly pondering all possible necessities and necessaries, then blithely postponing them until ‘further down the […]
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