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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 ...

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,...

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 post-worthy as what we had experienced o...

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, save that when Shiz was doing research ...

After one man's private enterprise and work of passion, we camped in the mountains South outside of Colorado Springs for a night before heading up towards Denver.  On our way down from the mountains we passed another private enterprise, ...

After taking in arguably the ancient world's most important central hub, our journey took us East, into the Valles Caldera on our way to Santa Fe.  We planned our route through the city of Jemez Springs to have us pass by a wonderful loo...

After the immersive and engaging Mersa Verde, it was time for us to revisit New Mexico, as we still had Santa Fe and Taos marked on the map.  Our path South brought us to a small ruins I had never heard of, but proved to be an exceptiona...

After possibly one of my favorite nights camping under the stars, we continued South towards Monument Valley.  The road took us through a town called Mexican Hat, which we both found amusing, until we passed through town and saw exactly ...

Having seen the space in the rocks, we figured that we'd go see the space around the rocks and check out Canyonlands.  A lot of people probably call it the little Grand Canyon, but the experience and feeling of the two are very different...

With some glorious canyons fresh in our minds, we headed further down road 12 to the area's main draw, Hole-in-the-Rock road.  The local town, Escalante, is a great place to gather information, stock up, and rest for the roughest, more t...

With our closeness to hoodoos achieved, it was time to follow 12 even further East, towards the Grand Staircase National Monument.  We wanted to visit Zebra Canyon, but we were sure that there were other things in store for us on the way...

So with the Western stop of Highway 12 behind us, we continued on down highway 12 for more adventures and nature. Red Rocks Our first stop on the road East was Red Rocks.  It's right there off the road, provides a nice stop, and marks th...

Completely blow away by Antelope Canyon, we changed course, heading into Utah and towards the famed route 12.  We were naturally very excited for this leg of the journey, because this area of the USA is simply famous for national parks t...

Having gotten to better know the US' most famous v-shaped feature, we cut across the Southern part of the Vermillion cliffs, windows down and music up.  There was something about that experience and those cliffs that went straight into t...

With a new idea of natural respect, we headed back to the Grand Canyon as it was now open.  We didn't think about all the other people who were also waiting and spent a good hour in line with everyone else who went to the North rim on th...

Phoenix was the last large city we planned to visit for a while, so we stared wild camping and the Southwest in the face and said: Let's do this. Montezuma Castle Our first stop North was to see more cliff dwellings (there are lots of th...

We left Manatee Springs State Park to traverse Florida's panhandle on our way towards The Big Easy and destinations further West and while we didn't have loads of time, we weren't about to jump on Highway 10 and miss the scenery, so we t...

We needed to start racking up some miles once we were through with the Everglades, so we hopped in the car and drove up the West Coast of Florida, through Tampa (decent, but it was going to take a special kind of city to make us stop) an...

After spending a day at Blue Spring State Park to kill a little time, we needed to head towards Cape Canaveral to fulfill a life-long dream of mine: see a rocket launch.  I've always loved space and rockets, so the chance to see an actua...

After Portland, we needed a little pick me up, something camping always provides.  Though the weather was starting to exclude camping from our list of activities, we decided on one more go before Boston.  Lucky for us, we found Pawtuckaw...