“It's a big world out there; it would be a shame not to experience it.”
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
Morro Bay Rock
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
Palm Springs, California
Joshua Tree National Park
Quartzsite, Arizona
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
