“A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.”
Campbell River, British Columbia
Chihuly Garden and Glass
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
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
Napa Valley and San Francisco
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
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
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
Sedona, 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
Grand Canyon National Park
Horseshoe Bend
Lower Antelope Canyon
Monument Valley
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