Chain of Craters Road, Volcanoes National Park. The lava flow has blocked the road. I love the irony of the Road Closed sign sitting about 6 feet above the old highway.

Just a few blocks from Independence Hall in Philadelphia is the Besty Ross House where the first flag of these United States (United States considered a plural noun until the Civil War) ...

  Having a wedding anniversary on Valentine’s Day is not at all like having your birthday on Christmas. As a husband, you are expected to come up with new and interesting romantic ...

I grew up in the late 1970s and early 1980s- a child of the Cold War. I’m sure my experience was different that that of people who lived through the Cuban Missile ...

Another photo from the beautiful Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. If you go to Bryce get up early and watch the sun rise over the hoodoos that are the most memorable ...

One of the best hikes I have ever take was in Bryce Canyon National Park. This park is one of the reason that Americans and foreign visitors alike should visit the National ...

One of the highlights of my travel this year was the last trip I took before reentering the working work. I joined OARS Whitewater Rafting company (their treat) on the Green River ...

On a hike in one of the side canyons off the Green River we came to Butt Dam Falls. One person sits in the narrow channel in the rock above the falls ...

These pictographs side are in a side-canyon off the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument. This canyon, we were told by our guide Seth, had been inhabited continuously for 8000 years. These ...

One of the best hikes that I have ever done is hiking up the Virgin River in a slot canyon in Zion National Park. This canyon gets as narrow, in the section ...