This isn’t exactly a trip but more of an overview of a particular place or region.
Along with our other road trips along California’s San Andreas Fault, this tour is a bit different as it visits a sister fault to the San Andreas – the San Jacinto Fault. The San Jacinto is a major parallel fault sharing much of the stored-up energy from the sliding action between the North American and […]
The area around southwest Utah is packed-full of small volcanoes known as cinder cones. Hiking to the top of one of these cones can offer great views of the awesome scenery below. This virtual hiking tour will take you up one such cinder cone on the edge of Snow Canyon State Park, just ten miles […]
This road trip adventure takes us to the vast Great Basin Desert of western Utah. When we decided to find an ideal spot to view the October 2023 annular eclipse, we headed to an area north of the town of Milford, which is 50 miles north of Cedar City. After watching the eclipse, we noticed […]
Southwest Utah is well known for its dazzling scenery thanks to the world-class geology that is in plain sight for everyone to enjoy. Most of this scenery is created by natural erosion that goes on continually for centuries, exposing the hidden beauty underneath.
We’re going to take you on a tour to a place called The Wave, which is a World Famous sandstone formation that everyone wants to visit. From our own personal experience, we’ll share with you what we saw and a lot of things we wish we had known about, before we went.
Join us on a back road adventure to a very remote ghost town in Nevada called Tybo. Along the way, we’ll pass right through an active facility that was going to be the operations center for Nevada’s next nuclear test site, with its first detonation that was to be known as Project Faultless.
The State of Virginia has an endless number of wonderful back roads to explore. With the many historical sites from both the Civil and Revolutionary wars and its close proximity to all the attractions in the Washington, D.C. area, a driving trip around Virginia can be very rewarding. For residents of the western USA, particularly […]
In a small corner and seldom visited area of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) in Utah lays a labyrinth of wild and crazy rock formations simply known as White Rocks. This place is a big treasure chest of unusual geologic formations, from over a hundred hoodoos or toadstools, to rock layers that seem to be […]
With its massive red and white sandstone cliffs and monoliths, Zion National Park is already a special place. But add a good dusting of snow and you’ll get a place that goes from special to magical. Visiting Zion during the winter can be a special and rewarding experience. In the winter, it is common to […]