California– category –

We walked through the remnant tubes magma and onto something that sounded vaguely interesting, glass mountain.  Apparently there were lots of obsidian lying around and people were pretty free to walk around.  California actually has two ...

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 caves that it would probably take 3 days ...

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 sounded interesting enough, but not awe-inspiring,...

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 lake feeds draws countless visitors in ...