I love the name of this park – “Canyonlands.” It is located very close to Arches, so you could see both during a single vacation. Before you go hiking, though, make sure you have plenty of bottled water and a good map or sense of direction. As you will see in the following video, the […]
Just up the road from the Four Corners of the Southwest area, in prior posts, is the landscape known as Utah. Every time I go there, I cannot help but think that the whole state is one gigantic park. Whether it is winter, (skiing and snowboarding,) spring, summer or fall, (red rock hiking, climbing, fishing, […]
Naturally, this is the fourth, and last, of the Four Corners videos. It is about the Monument Valley, a Navajo Nation landscape. Since Hollywood shot many a Western film here, you could be familiar with the area. It is a land unbounded by perimeters, but with “monument” landmarks that make it quintessentially southwest United States. […]
Let’s continue on in the Four Corners region of the USA’s Southwest Region and explore the beauty of Canyon de Chelly National Monument.
For the next few weeks, as part of the National Parks, Memorials and Monuments series, we explore the Four Corners region of the United States, (southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.) In the Four Corners, many cultural and historical sites exist today. For a start, in the last post, we visited […]
On a dark and rainy day, I drift into imaginations of how life was lived a hundred years ago. The machines people used were different from today, but I’d bet the people were similar to us in that they needed trade with other people for goods, money, and services. In recognition, today I post about […]
Mono Lake in California, U.S.A., is truly a unique site. In order to protect this fragile environment, an act of Congress was passed in 1984 that designated the Mono Basin as the first ever National Scenic Area. Limestone tuft columns, or “towers,” rise from the highly saline,(greater than most oceans,) and alkaline lake water (there […]
I call today’s song “Warp Speed” to honor those who created a vaccine to fight the 2020 pandemic. Since this is the last post for the year 2020, let us ring out the old, troubled year, with a concerto-style song, photographs of beautiful mountain lands, and hopes for something more normal and natural next year. […]
Today’s video is a travelogue of my visit to Yellowstone National Park. Although I knew that Yellowstone is the oldest and grandest national park in the United States*, I didn’t expect to be swept away by the natural beauty outside of the park as well. These surprises of travel are some of the best reasons […]