Category: Travel
Ancient Rivers – Lava Beds National Monument
Now that we better understood some of the active volcanoes in the area, we went to see what some of their predecessors had done by exploring a couple of the caves in Lava Beds. There are so many cav... Read More
Yellowstone in Miniature – Lassen Volcanic National Park
The USA’s second deepest lake behind us, we began our trek North, researching places as we went. One place that happened to be on our route and seemed interesting enough was Lassen. It sound... Read More
Water, Liquid or Solid – Lake Tahoe
After our brief stint jumping over an in-land border, we crossed another line, from Nevada into California so that we could pivot North at Lake Tahoe. Known for tourism in all seasons, this massive la... Read More
Cookie Currency – The Republic of Molossia
Nevada primarily traversed, we finally made it to the border of California, with a stop in Reno. Unsurprisingly, the cheapest hotel there was a casino, so we just stopped for the night, wandered the... Read More
Hot, Hot, Heat – Driving Through Nevada
We drove out of a unique, special world and onto highways, which would be our home for the next two days. Though our image of Nevada essentially consisted of desert, looking at the map and talking t... Read More
A Highway of Art – Bonneville Salt Flats
After Thor’s fireworks and Hispanic pastries, it was time to hustle West, through Nevada, and start the drive North to Seattle. We weren’t quite done with Utah, however, as we had to mak... Read More
More than a Band of Horses Song – The Great Salt Lake
Though we saw many more, the bizarre hoodoos of the oil fields proved to be our goodbye to the majestic rocks of the Southwest. We did stop for camping on the way West, but nothing as intimate of po... Read More
Nature’s China Shop – Fantasy Canyon
Blown away by the rock wall of dinos, we headed back into Utah to see a place that Shiz marked on the map a long time ago, Fantasy Canyon. Neither of us could really remember much about the place, s... Read More
