The Grand Canyon is unbelievable. When you walk up to the canyon rim on a sunny day – preferably with a bright blue sky and puffy white clouds – the reds, oranges, and yellows of the canyon look fake. The way that the canyon changes as you traverse the rim is also fascinating. At some points,…
Half way through our year long road trip, we were sitting in Seattle trying to decide where to go next. All of a sudden, Alysha ran into the room to tell me that she had gotten camping reservations at Yellowstone, which you might know are some of the most hard-to-get reservations in the country. From…
How were we so late to the Arizona party? Despite both having been to Arizona MULTIPLE TIMES before, we were radically unprepared for the sheer beauty that we experienced over the course of our Arizona road trip. We spent around two weeks in Arizona, and already started making plans for our return. Because there is…
To be honest, we weren’t quite sure what to expect on our first trip to Death Valley National Park. Just about the only thing I knew was that parts of Star Wars were filmed here, notably some of the Tatooine scenes, which meant I was anticipating big expanses of desert and sand dunes as far…
Zion National Park is one of our favorite national parks in the United States, with its surprisingly lush, green canyon juxtaposed with towering red rock walls, and the blue-green hues of the winding Virgin River. I have been multiple times, mostly with family growing up, and I joked to Alysha on our last trip that…
The scale of the Grand Canyon is absolutely mind-blowing. Standing on the rim of the canyon, you’ll be staring thousands of feet down into crags and crevices winding through the world-famous chasm that millions of people flock to every year. It’s one of those places that makes you go “I wonder what the first people…