TravelThe Rainmakers – Cascades
We took the beauty and scale of the beach with us as we headed back into the mountains to go camping with my dad and som...
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TravelPerfect for Flying High – Ocean Shores
After the site of the most famous eruption in Washington State history, we still had a couple of days before our house s...
TravelIt Blew Soon After I was Born – Mt. St. Helens
The outdoor adventures of Bend in our minds, we went camping with our friends, stayed with them for a night in Portland,...
TravelAscendent Dreams – Bend
Bend was thankfully far enough from the fires to let us escape the haze, but the fires brought us into the area a couple...
TravelThe USA’s Deepest – Crater Lake National Park
Our minds blown like so many shards of obsidian, we crossed into Oregon, just one state away from home. The first stop ...
TravelThe Alien Aftermath – Little Glass Mountain
We walked through the remnant tubes magma and onto something that sounded vaguely interesting, glass mountain. Apparent...
TravelAncient 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 h...
TravelYellowstone 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 happene...
TravelWater, 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 co...
TravelCookie Currency – The Republic of Molossia
Nevada primarily traversed, we finally made it to the border of California, with a stop in Reno. Unsurprisingly, the ch...
TravelHot, 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 im...
TravelA 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 S...
TravelMore 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 Sou...
TravelNature’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 ag...
TravelA Vertical River Ruin – Dinosaur National Monument
Water played to focal point of our last stop, but this time rock was our theme. Specifically, thousands upon thousands ...
TravelThe Joys of Water – Rifle Falls State Park
Having explored a lesser known but glorious canyon, we set the front bumper towards the Northwest corner of Colorado for...
Travel33 Minutes of Sunshine – Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
We hesitantly left a town we'd easily call home to start our trek back West across Utah, Nevada, and California, cutting...
TravelThe World’s First Biosphere Reserve – Rocky Mountain National Park
A slice of regional history behind us, we drove into Boulder for a week of relaxing and laundry with a pet sitting gig w...
TravelHistory in the Private Sector – Manitou Cliff Dwellings
After one man's private enterprise and work of passion, we camped in the mountains South outside of Colorado Springs for...
TravelLibertarian Fortification – Bishop Castle
While the Great Sand Dunes are a bizarre natural phenomenon, Bishop Castle is an artificial one. The castle is gorgeous...
