Photography, Fun, and Adventure in the U.S.
Our last stop this year — before we pick up the trip again right after Christmas — was a return visit to Temecula, CA, for a day of more wine-tasting. Temecula is a bit of a newbie — at least in terms of California winemaking — having started its first
We quite enjoyed our visit to Joshua Tree National Park, located in southern California and which straddles two ecological systems — the high Mojave Desert (at elevations 3,000+ feet) in the western part of the park and the low (below 3,000-feet) Colorado Desert in the eastern part. The park, established
Channel Islands National Park — the 27th national park we have visited on this grand adventure — is one of a handful of national parks only accessible by boat or plane. The park, established in 1980, consists of five islands — San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, and Santa
We’re combining several places in California into one big wine stop, but we must mention that all three are very much worthy of their own mention — and we quite enjoyed the time spent visiting the areas and sampling their wines! It was our second time in both Lodi and
We left Lee Vining, CA, and the Eastern Sierras for a wonderful and crazy drive up and over the mountain range into the western foothills — stopping first in Pine Grove and then continuing down to Mariposa. Our drive took us on Highway 88 through the Eldorado National Forest, located mostly
We traveled from Tonopah, Nevada, to Lee Vining, California, to spend several days in and around the Eastern Sierras, including visits to Bodie, Mono Lake, Inyo National Forest, Mammoth Lakes, and — of course — Yosemite National Park. We started the adventure by visiting the site of a once-booming gold
We made a stop in the lovely Pahranagat Valley — camping in a cute little RV park in the town of Alamo, Nevada… a little oasis in the middle of the Great Basin desert located about 90 miles north of Las Vegas (an area we never need to visit again). The
This stop was mostly all about Zion National Park, though we were also happy to spend some time in St. George, UT, which was a great place to restock after being in lots of tiny towns for the last several weeks as we worked our way through the state. (We
When we visited the Grand Canyon (National Park #3 on our adventure) back in February of this year, the North Rim — the Kaibab Plateau — was unreachable because of heavy snow… so it has been in the works for months to make the trek back to this amazing natural
Our hunt for more crazy sandstone buttes and towers led us to the Utah-Arizona border — and directly into Monument Valley and to a little campground at Gouldings (on the Utah side of the border) — a compound that started as a trading post for the Navajo people and now