We left Durango and our friends, Marilyn and Ken, around noon on Thursday and headed out on our 3 hour drive east to Great Sand Dune National Park. As with many...

CAPITAL REEF Sitting at the booth table in our RV a few weeks back, I was laying out the plans for the Utah portion of our journey. I had the large...

Bryce Canyon is only about an hour and a half away from Zion, so you might think that they would be very similar but they aren’t. They both have canyons but...

When I met Dave, he seemed to have only one speed. Snail. He sauntered as if he had not a care in the world. Still today, in stores, around the neighborhood,...

NAVAJO TIME MACHINES We are visiting Arches National Park in southern Utah. Today we are hiking, again. We’ve gone a couple of miles and at this moment, we are standing alone,...

When I opened my eyes the other morning and looked out of our tiny ‘kitchen’ window, the mountain of rock was a bright orange/red from the glow of the morning sun....

It becomes increasingly difficult to write about the essence of our experience in each National Park right now because one; it takes a lot of time to write them and most...

Left the beautiful Grand Canyon. I’m not sure if its beauty, its breadth, or its magnitude has been fully realized by me yet, but I do know it has left me...

For the National Parks, the Grand Canyon is one of the big ones. It lives up to its hype and then some. One of the eight wonders of the world and...

After spending a week or so in Los Angeles and San Diego eating, drinking, and visiting friends and families, it’s nice to get back to visiting the national parks. Combine that...