Sun Valley Road Rally 2015
Sun Valley, Idaho, home to one of the first private ski resorts in the U.S., hosts a fantastic event in the summer all around cars. For seven years the Sun Valley Auto Club put on the Sun Valley Road Rally, … Continued
Souvenir Patches
My parents were smart. With four little children they found a way we would all be happy when visiting gift shops while traveling without having to spend lots of money, waste time choosing something, or get something too big. They … Continued
Pioneer Day and the temple
Pioneer Day, 24 July, a holiday only recognized in Utah and a few heavily Mormon towns in Idaho and Arizona and celebrated by LDS faithful the world over. It is a holiday to celebrate the day Brigham Young and the … Continued
Natural History Museum of Utah
Stunning architecture and an exquisite collection make the Natural History Museum of Utah a worthy contender for your time. The new building in University of Utah’s Research Park called the Rio Tinto Center, which opened in 2011, is an amazing … Continued
Fremont Street Experience SlotZilla Zoomline
Las Vegas has lots of ways to get your adrenaline pumping from roller coasters to zip lines and I did both while there. Since my first real visit to Sin City ten years ago with Michael McLean’s The Forgotten Carols … Continued
Neon Museum Boneyard
The few times I had been to Las Vegas before our family reunion took me to the Cashman Center as a stage manager or production assistant. Just as you pull into this big municipal convention center complex there is a … Continued
Las Vegas Family Style
Some people will tell you Las Vegas isn’t family friendly. In many ways they are correct, but Sin City offers so much to visitors beyond the love of lucre, the lust and the adult themed everything. There is also fun … Continued
The Dam Tour of Hoover Dam
Our dam guide was Kris for the hour-long dam tour that took us into the dam bowels to walk through dam tunnels seeing dam stairs, looking out dam vents and riding on dam elevators. Enough dam jokes? I’ve been over … Continued
Bristlecone Pines of Great Basin National Park
There is a relatively small number of living things in this world that have watched as civilizations have grown, prospered and fallen around them, and they all seem to be trees. A collection of these ancient organisms known as bristlecone … Continued
Lehman Caves – Great Basin National Park
Absalom Lehman, rancher on the Snake Range in Nevada, was enjoying a sandwich one warm afternoon when a pack rat made off with it. The sandwich was too good to let the varmint make off with it, so Absalom hopped … Continued