We have seen so many beautiful mountains as we have been traveling in the northwest part of the country. It is very cool to be driving down a highway or a back road and these beautiful mountains present themselves. One of the first ones that we saw after leaving Crater Lake was Mt. Hood. From town we were treated to […]

We had a blast exploring the very large Yosemite Park. We spent three day exploring this park. Yosemite Valley is a spot that a lot of visitors go. Here you can find all sorts of accommodations from camping areas to the Yosemite Lodge, as well as a restaurant and store. There is a shuttle that runs in this area, so […]

We have seen two National Parks that have a volcanic past. The first one was Lassen Volcanic National Park in Mineral, California. Despite the fact that the temperatures were in the mid 70 to lower 80s, this parks still had snow! Lots of snow! In fact, the scenic route through the park, had only been completely cleared of snow about […]

Next up on the list of National Parks was Sequoia. Once again, we headed out early in the morning to beat the crowds and see the park in the early morning light. We were greeted by a beautiful sunrise, although is was somewhat muted by the smoke from wildfires near Fresno and some prescribed burns that were going on. We […]

Before you ask, yes, it was hot. But hey, it was summer time. Death Valley was more than I expected, the most interesting part was the diversity of the park. I thought that it was just a big, hot valley, but not so much. There is actually a lot of diversity to the terrain. We checked out several different areas […]