Meteor Crater is the result of a collision between a piece of an asteroid traveling at 26,000 miles per hour and planet Earth approximately 50,000 years ago. A force greater than 20 million tons of TNT throwing more than 175 million tons of earth and rock out. Today, Meteor Crater...
Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Lowell Observatory was established in 1894, placing it among the oldest observatories in the United States, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965. In 2011, the Observatory was named one of “The World’s 100 Most Important Places” by TIME....
Today we drove into San Antonio to go downtown to the River Walk. While the Interstate part of the drive was easy enough, once we got down into the city itself it seemed that the city engineers were playing a practical joke. One sign would show the River Walk as...
After leaving the Lee Vining and Mono Lake area, I continued south out of Bishop in search of a sight to pull over and camp for the night. After a few failed attempts I turned down a dirt road and was very surprised to find some hot springs! I quickly...
I arrived in the Slab City area just before noon, after jumping my van over some odd part of the road that acted as a launching pad. I figured, in that split second, that the van was a goner when it touched ground again. Though everything flew around the back...
Holy cow, this body of water is huge! I don’t know what I was expecting, but not a real sea in the middle of the desert… you could not see the other side unless it was the mountains to the north. To all other sides, it appeared as if it...
Just south of Holloman Air Force Base (between the base and White Sands Ntnl Monument), are a few small lagoons which the AFB allow the public to come and bird-watch and/or camp. This is where I happened to pull into last night about an hour before the sun set, and...
I rolled into Alamogordo, NM late this morning looking for access the the Lincoln National Forest so I could setup camp. The first road that I thought would allow me access was fenced and locked. Though I could hike or bike in I could not drive. I then accessed the...
The days are getting more and more gratifying the longer I am out. This morning i woke from my hot-springs camping and got moving south soon after a eggs and toast breakfast. I figured that I could make it to my next scheduled stop (Manzanar War Relocation Center) and hang...
