Travel Destinations

We’ve made it to Denver! Driving into the area, seeing the colorful trees and bushes and snow in the mountains, and feeling the crisp fall air, has been wonderful. We are really excited to be here. Even though it’s somewhat bittersweet, knowing that our amazing adventure on the road has come to an end, we…

Originally we had planned to stop at the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert after the Grand Canyon. Due to the government shutdown, those plans were thwarted, so we directly moved on to El Paso, TX, with plans to return to the Grand Canyon and Petrified Forest in the future. My sister, V, lives in El…

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!…