"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom." – Theodore Roosevelt
Glacier National Park & Livingston, Montana
Driving South through Canada's Yukon, British Columbia, and Alberta
The view that lay before us in the evening light was one that does not often fall to the lot of modern mountaineers. A new world was spread at our feet: to the westward stretched a vast ice-field probably never before seen by the human eye, and surrounded by entirely unknown, unnamed and unclimbed peaks. - July 1898, British explorer J. Norman Collie
Top of the World Highway
Loony Island, Charlie Hamilton’s Place
Denali National Park
Key West, Florida to the Arctic Circle, Alaska
Canada/Alaska Drive North
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
