Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Named Roads: The Sea-to-Sky Highway The City of New Orleans, a folk song written by Steve Goodman and popularized by Arlo Guthrie in 1972 introduced [...]
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada – Day 2
Off-The-Road Carbon Reduction Reducing greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere is the holy grail of addressing climate change. We absolutely must reduce our carbon to [...]
Glacier National Park, Montana
Going-to-the-Sun The Going-to-the-Sun Road through Glacier National Park is among the most beautiful drives in the world. Open fully only in summer, the 50-mile [...]
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming – Day 2
Darwinism The aptly-named Camelback Mountain looks like a sleeping Dromedary with its hump-like summit and head extended forward. It is, perhaps, the Phoenix, Arizona [...]
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The Parks We departed Jackson, Wyoming on our selected route and entered the first National Park of our road trip—Grand Teton, just north of Jackson [...]
Jackson, Wyoming
Off the Map Yesterday, Day 9 of the trip, we first went to the Hill AFB Aerospace Museum in Ogden, Utah as planned. Here, [...]
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder Dash For those of you who are following our route, note that our original route from Aspen to Boulder, Colorado had us going [...]
Aspen, Colorado
“How’s Your Aspen?” ASPEN IN 1977 This play on words was everywhere when I first visited Aspen, Colorado in 1977. It was a different [...]
Farmington, New Mexico
The Host “Always assume your guest is tired, cold and hungry, and act accordingly” - Navajo Proverb. In the summer of 1982, I drove [...]
Range Anxiety?
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – t.s. eliot [...]