Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

“Where Art, Fantasy, and Imagination Meet”

Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs, California

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends” – Maya Angelou

Joshua Tree National Park

Joshua Tree National Park

“You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul.”

Sedona, Arizona

Sedona, Arizona

“Whatever path brought you here
There is a reason why you came,
Through you may not know it now.” 
― Ilchi Lee, The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart

Meteor Crater, Winslow, Arizona

Meteor Crater, Winslow, Arizona

“But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years.  To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second.  No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Standin’ on the Corner” in Winslow, Arizona

“Standin’ on the Corner” in Winslow, Arizona

"Well, I'm a standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona and such a fine sight to see.  It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford slowin' down to take a look at me." - Eagles

Grand Canyon National Park

Grand Canyon National Park

“The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself.  The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features.  Language and illustration combined must fail.” - John Wesley Powell

Horseshoe Bend

Horseshoe Bend

“Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world” – Mark Jenkins

Lower Antelope Canyon

Lower Antelope Canyon

“The breathtaking beauty and splendor of Lower Antelope Canyon definitely cannot be captured in lenses or words.”

Monument Valley

Monument Valley

“In the Navajo culture each of these mesas and buttes, they have heartbeats.”

Arches National Park

Arches National Park

“For a little while we are again able to see, as the child sees, a world of marvels. For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous then all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures.” –Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

Dead Horse Point/Canyonlands National Park

Dead Horse Point/Canyonlands National Park

“Let your memory be your travel bag.”

Durango, Ouray and Telluride, Colorado

Durango, Ouray and Telluride, Colorado

“It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”

Mesa Verde National Park

Mesa Verde National Park

“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.”

Driving across Northern New Mexico

Driving across Northern New Mexico

“We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

Bandelier National Monument

Bandelier National Monument

“Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of man.” – George Wherry

Viking Surprise Helicopter Serial Number 64-13670

Viking Surprise Helicopter Serial Number 64-13670

“If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.”

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Angel Fire, New Mexico

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Angel Fire, New Mexico

“When sons or daughters die in battle, parents are confronted with the choice of what they will do to honor the courage and sacrifice of that son or daughter.” – Doc Westphall