on the way

Bandelier National Monument
Chaco Culture National Historic Park
Mesa Verde National Park
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
Grand Canyon National Park
Zion National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park
Sequoia and King’s Canyon National Park
Yosemite National Park
Redwood National and State Parks
Lewis and Clark National and State Historic Parks
Olympic National Park
Glacier National Park
Yellowstone National Park
Grand Teton National Park
Badlands National Park
(I can’t really count Mount […]

I still have photos to upload and more posts to write, but I’ve been busy with schoolwork, etc. In the meantime, here’s a map of all the states I visited on this trip:

and here’s one of all the states I’ve visited in my life:

40/50, auntie!
create your own visited states map

I’m back.
*thud*

I am having some difficulty getting my photos online at the Kinko’s in Spokane, but rest assured they will make it online eventually. Onward to Glacier…

I realized that I’ve been terribly remiss in posting whose music I’ve enjoyed so far… so here is the complete list.
Amy (1+2)
Rise
Leia (1+2)
Heather
Andy (1+2)
Sarah/psu
Erik
Sarah + Erik
Bekah
Sully (1+2)
Sarah/sis (1+2)
You know what the best part is? Out of all those CDs, only one song has been a repeat.
What song, you ask?
Why, “The Pandas Must […]

My laptop is dead. I think the motherboard is fried. As a result, posts may be more infrequent until I get a chance to have it looked at (probably sometime next week).
In the meantime, feast your eyes on Navajo Lake (alt. 10,000 feet — still frozen), nifty windmills, and your moment […]

Bryce Canyon was cool. Literally. It was rainy and cold. Consequently, there aren’t as many photos as there are of the other parks. I hope to come back someday when the weather is nice.
(But if the weather was cool, the people made up for it. The shuttle drivers […]

Photos from the drive between the South Rim and the North Rim. The first couple are from the Navajo Bridge over the Colorado; the last two are of the information station for the Coronado-Escalante expedition in the absolute middle of nowhere. The stuff the National Park Service sees fit to document never fails […]

Dear New Mexico Department of Transportation,
State Highway 126 is not really a highway. It is not even, in fact, a road. Please stop putting it on the maps. Thank you.

As it turns out, I do know the way to Santa Fe.
Miles: 785 (!)
Interstates/roads: 20, 35, US Hwy 287 (which isn’t an interstate, but might as well be), 44, 40, 27 (not by choice — for some reason 40 was closed through Amarillo. There’s really nothing like being waved off the interstate […]