America the Beautiful

Chihuly Garden and Glass

Chihuly Garden and Glass

“I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color

in a way they have never experienced.” – Dale Chihuly

Mount St. Helens, Washington

Mount St. Helens, Washington

“Clouds of hot ash made up of pulverized rock were belched twelve miles into the sky. Giant mud slides, composed of melted snow mixed with ash and propelled by waves of super heated gas erupting out of the crater, rumbled down the slopes and crashed through valleys, leaving millions of trees knocked down in rows, as though a giant had been playing pick-up sticks.” – Time Magazine

Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

“There is no better place to find yourself than sitting by a waterfall

and listening to its music.”

Crater Lake, Oregon

Crater Lake, Oregon

"I thought I had gazed upon everything beautiful in nature as I have spent my years traveling thousands of miles to visit the beauty spots of the earth, but I have reached the climax. Never again can I gaze upon the beauty spots of the earth and enjoy them as being the finest thing I have ever seen. Crater Lake is above them all." - Author Jack London, 1911

Pacific Coast Highway

Pacific Coast Highway

“The journey is my home.”

Napa Valley and San Francisco

Napa Valley and San Francisco

“The answer may not lie at the bottom of this wine bottle . . .

But we should at least check.”

Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park

“The far-famed valley came suddenly into view throughout almost its whole extent: the noble walls, sculptured into endless variety of domes and gables, spires and battlements and plain mural precipices, all a-tremble with the thunder tones of the falling water.  The level bottom seemed to be dressed like a garden, sunny meadows here and there and groves of pine and oak, the river of Mercy sweeping in majesty through the midst of them and flashing back the sunbeams.” -- John Muir

Pebble Beach, 17 mile drive, Bixby Bridge, and McWay Falls Big Sur, California

Pebble Beach, 17 mile drive, Bixby Bridge, and McWay Falls Big Sur, California

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~Andre Gide

Morro Bay Rock

Morro Bay Rock

“Just Go. Go see all the Beauty in the World”

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

"And as we liftoff aboard Air Force One…the winds of freedom will be propelling my mission… As I fly westward over our majestic land, I go knowing that we´re witnessing an awakening to those self–evident truths to which our forefathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor."

– Ronald Reagan, April 23, 1986

Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California

“A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.”

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

“Where Art, Fantasy, and Imagination Meet”

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.”