Category Nature
Eclipse!
This weekend I started a new chapter of my travel career with a trip specially planned to watch an eclipse—specifically the annular eclipse. I flew to Salt Lake City yesterday, met up with Amanda who had flown in from Denver, and then drove the hours south to the small town of Richfield, UT, where we […]
The last of Banff! Vistas and rivers and icefields… in the rain
Right on cue with the weather forecast, the clouds rolled in overnight and today was dark and cloudy and more wet than not. So it was a good thing we’d done our big hiking day yesterday. On deck for today: the Icefields Parkway that runs through Banff National Park and adjacent Jasper National Park. Along […]
More Banff! Lakes and Larches
Today was an exercise in travel adventures that consisted of (1) reading the weather forecast and deciding that we needed to throw out our plans for today and instead do what we’d planned for tomorrow, (2) getting up way before the crack of dawn to drive from Canmore up to Lake Louise where we embarked […]
Banff!
What could be better than an extra-long weekend in one of the most spectacular national parks in North America? Doing it with a good friend, and in early autumn when the colors are hitting their golden peak. Two Jack Lake Lake Minnewanka Cascade Pond Grotto and Pool Gondola & Top of Mount Sulphur Bow Falls […]
En route to Las Vegas
By Sunday morning we had done everything we had planned to do in Zion national park, and since Vanessa’s flight left super early on Monday morning we decided to wend our way back to Las Vegas. Along the way we stopped at the Valley of Fire state park, which was a step down from the […]
More Zion!
Up again in the wee hours, out with the first shuttle, and on the trail before dawn. Today we did three different hikes, with snacks and naps and a healthy serving (or five) of ice cream in between. Vanessa’s step-counter says we did more that 30,000 steps over more than 12 miles. Another fun day […]
The Narrows!
Yesterday I met up with Vanessa in Las Vegas and drove to the tiny town of Springdale, Utah, which sits at the entrance to Zion national park. This morning we set our alarms for o-dark-middle-of-the-night so that we could be on the first shuttle into the park and among the first people to head into […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 