Rendezvous in Bend

One of Tara’s summer classes this term was geology field camp. Oregon State University has a great geology program, and Tara has field trips as part of a class multiple times a year. But field camp is when the entire class is on location. This latest class was 5 weeks out in the desert of […]

Dante’s View and Scotty’s Castle

Not one of them saw a return on their investment except Johnson, who got a mad storyteller and a desert guide out of the bargain.

Arches!

Thursday morning we packed up and left the beautiful little Hamburger Rock campsite. We stopped a few times on the way so that I could snap a last couple of photos of North and South Six-Shooter Peaks, on our way back to the highway. We headed back toward Moab to replenish supplies of dry ice […]

Hoover Dam and Arizona rain

Let me dispel the myths: you can still cross the dam for free!