Meteor Crater happened to be along the way from the Grand Canyon to my sister’s house in El Paso. It’s only a few miles off the interstate so we made a side trip to go see it. It cost $16 per person, but we thought it was worth it. This included two short movies, a…
OH the Grand Canyon!!! How magnificent! How gorgeous! Driving up to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, even once inside of the park, you would have no idea that the canyon lay ahead, not until you are walking up to it, only steps away, and the trees clear and you are suddenly at the…
Joshua Tree has a reputation as being one of the best places for rock climbing in the world. It is well deserved. We did a LOT of climbing while we were here, trying to take advantage of the amazing climbing, and we only just scratched the surface. There is a lifetime’s worth of climbing here….
Trabuco Canyon is on the outskirts of the LA area and where our friend B lives. We’ve got to hand it to him, for being so near LA, he found a pretty nice area to call home, backed up to National Forest land where there is a lot of mountain biking and hiking. We visited…
Sequoia and Kings Canyon were both amazing. Our first stop was the Sequoia area. Our good friend B, with whom we had caved and climbed in the DC area before he also moved away, came out from the LA area. We all spent a day rock climbing and checking out some of the park. Here…
After Redwoods National Park, we continued down the coast before turning east. Here are some pictures of Humboldt Redwoods State Park, where we cruised through the Avenue of the Giants. This was a really nice day excursion, and we stopped at numerous points to walk around, such as the Founders Grove. Founders Tree within the…
Redwoods National Park is a strange mixture of State and National Parks. When the national park was founded there were already several state parks in the area, so the national park just fills in the space around them. It made it a little confusing at first to try and plan what we wanted to see,…
Crater Lake, Oregon This post is dedicated to our good friends A and J that we had hoped would be able to join us at Crater Lake, but due to life’s circumstances weren’t able to. (We thought about you two a lot while we visiting here and hope you get to see it someday too!…
Portland and Eugene, Oregon Having made it back to the west coast, we spent the first few days in Portland. This was a city I hadn’t explored yet. The hotel we stayed in downtown, the Mark Spencer, was really nice. It felt almost a bit European and they went the extra mile with free perks…
St. Louis, Denver, and back to Portland After leaving Pennsylvania, we headed west in K’s car, which we still needed to get to Denver. On the way, we planned a visit to St. Louis, Missouri. My gracious coworker V and her husband S put us up in their home for several days. V also set…
