After 8 days on the road I really started to miss my home and friends(especially my girlfriend) in California. Here is a song I often have stuck in my head anytime I am away. I was hoping to visit Mt. Shasta, but the mountain was covered with rain clouds. This location is about 7 hours from where I live so I will make it back here some day for a little mountaineering...
Once again, I awoke early to continue my drive. My next destination was to visit Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. This involved a long drive across Oregon that took most of the day. Eventually, I started seeing Mt. Rainier and Mt. Jefferson on the horizon. Here was an interesting stop… I arrived at Crater Lake around 5 pm. This natural formation is even...
There was so much “awesome” to be found in Banff, that I decided to split this post into a second part. One of my biggest desires for more than a decade was to see the BLUE–GREEN lakes. These glacier-fed beauties lie right along the continental divide and basically feed all the rivers splitting out from the rocky mountains and head towards the...
I awoke very early in Calgary, prepared to do a 90-minute drive west into the Canadian Rocky Mountains. My destination was Banff National Park. Banff has been a dream destination of mine for nearly 10 years. It all started when I attended a local Cleveland, Ohio showing of the Banff film festival. I remember watching an inspiring film about Old Snow Skiiers. I...
I started my day in the city of Kalispell, MT. I had driven the previous day for about 8 hours to get here so I could have more time in Glacier National Park. While I had grandiose plans to camp this trip, colder temperatures, a lack of planning, and just general laziness had me staying at hotels. I headed for the West Entrance of the park… I stopped...
I started my day visiting Jackson Lake and the Coulter Bay Marina. There was this delightful little trail that walked out to a peninsula and gave another great view of the Grand Teton mountains. This place is pure heaven for me. Next, I drove into Yellowstone national park. Being one of the first national parks, Yellowstone is one of the biggest. I didn’t...
I started out early, enjoying the drive from Salt Lake City into the mountains. My goal was to head up to Jackson, Wyoming to find Grand Teton, National Park. My first rest stop, east of SLC, I found people feeding Cheetos to squirrels and groundhogs. Outside of this distraction, I found the surrounding red rocks to be beautiful. I made my way into Wyoming, then...
I woke up at 5AM to start my next 200-mile drive to Great Basin NP. It was an easy drive and around 10am I arrived at the visitor center. I took a tour of Lehman Caves. This place, while not as grand as Mammoth Cave Kentucky, has a really cool geology and some really impressive stalactite and stalagmite growths. Next, I took a drive up Mt Wheeler’s scenic road. This...
This week I started a road trip I have wanted to do for a few years. My goal is to explore the northwestern USA and a bit of Canada. I’ve not done a whole bunch of planning so there are going to be some unplanned expenses as well as some opportunity costs. But I would regret putting this off any longer. My first destination is Great Basin National Park in...
I love Electronic Dance Music (EDM). While it wasn’t until a few years ago that the genre really took off, I’ve loved it since I discovered a few artists during the 90s (RedNex and Real McCoy). For about a decade I have been vaguely aware of music festivals around the world that celebrate dance music. One that has been on my bucket list is...