on the way

CNN.com has a story about the 100th anniversary of Mesa Verde’s designation as a national park.

Added more Grand Teton photos and a few from Badlands. There’s also more pics in the Miscellaneous section, including some of the World’s Only Corn Palace. Or, as the locals call it, The World’s Largest Bird Feeder. (All those murals are made out of corn. Really.)
In other news, it looks as though […]

Glacier was stunning — hella rainy the first day, but the weather cleared up after that. Still too windy to take a boat tour though Oh well…. got to see lots of cool stuff anyway.

Finally managed to get my Olympic National Park photos online.

Redwood was beautiful — I wish I’d had more time to spend there. It’s actually a collection of several state parks linked by national park land, so you never really know where you are. I camped on the beach of the Pacific Ocean which was really nifty. Also cool: in Crescent City, […]

I’m tired from uploading eight bazillion photos, so for now I don’t have a lot to say about Yosemite except (1) it was absolutely gorgeous and (2) man, humans have really screwed up the place. Honestly. The road system in the valley had to have been designed by a four-year-old on methamphetamines. […]

You know, I really thought that no road into a park could be more switchback-y than Mesa Verde, and that no view from a campsite could possibly be better than this, and that Zion is the most beautiful place on earth.
I was wrong on all three counts.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Sequoia and King’s […]

Zion National Park is the most photogenic place in the world. Really. It may actually be impossible to take a bad photograph there.
And if anyone tries to disprove that statement by pointing to the blackish photo with a big splodge of white in it towards the end of the album, let me […]

The North Rim couldn’t be more different from the South Rim. (Yes, that is snow in the photos. And standing water.) At 1000 feet more elevation, the North Rim is less developed than the South Rim, but just as enjoyable. You have to drive through miles of the Kaibab National Forest […]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about space.
“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space. Listen…” and so on.
You […]