Category Archives: travel
Another Year
It’s been a year since I started this blog on the way back from a trip to Vermont to see the fall foliage colors. I should put up a few shots of this year’s trip:
Pinnacles National Monument
The Pinnacles formed as a volcano in southern California. Over millions of years, tectonic plate action along the San Andreas fault has moved it a few hundred miles north to its present location. Some of the last breeding pairs of … Continue reading
Rain and Snow
It almost never rains here in the summer. When it does rain in the winter, we usually get a lot of it all at once. Everything that grows needs the water, so that’s good, but heavy rain also can cause … Continue reading
A Couple of Sunsets
The colors and dark silhouettes in one taken near home in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains: remind me of this old favorite, which I took a couple of years ago near Gila Bend in Arizona:
Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
This was an interesting day trip in southern California last October. Mount San Jacinto State Park is a wooded wilderness on a mountain top 10,000 feet above the desert. It’s 20 degrees cooler in the summer and like Big Bear … Continue reading
Front Sight
I recently attended my first course at the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute about an hour west of Las Vegas. There was a short reference at the welcome talk to the sad situation in Connecticut the week before, but since … Continue reading
Bryce Canyon
Bryce Canyon deserves a post of its own. I reserved a full day, and that was barely enough to scratch the surface of this amazing landscape. The main geological feature is the “Hoodoo”, the name they give the sandstone spires. … Continue reading
Cool Geology in Utah
Too much traveling and not enough writing… In early December, I did a whirl-wind tour of four national parks in Utah. Of course, one could spend a lot more time exploring each of these, and I may come back to … Continue reading
Capitol Reef National Park I
I only had time to cover the Scenic Drive and Capitol Gorge Wash in the upper part of the park on Monday. It was getting dark on my way out. I plan to go back to see the famous “Waterpocket … Continue reading