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
Golden Spike National Historic Site
Hailed as the greatest engineering feat of the 19th century and a bandage on a broken nation, the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, is one of the more important events in U.S. history. The story of … Continued
Arches National Park Devils Garden Trail
A list recently came out of 10 life-changing trails in Utah. As I read through the list I was happy to have some of them already checked off including Angels Landing in Zion National Park, Delicate Arch at Arches National … Continued
Canyonlands National Park – Needles District
Two rivers converged in the russet colored stone creating three distinct regions of geologic wonderland. Millenia of carving, smoothing, eroding, and shaping have left this spectacular garden of stone formations and canyons preserved today as Canyonlands National Park. The two … Continued
Monument Valley Tribal Park
“Hi-ho, Silver! Away!” When we think of the landscape of the wild west, Monument Valley Tribal Park often comes to mind whether we know that’s what it is or not. We see the iconic images from classic western films, the … Continued
Navajo National Monument
The whole of northern Arizona and the four corners region seems to be pocked with canyons including those comprising Navajo National Monument. These rocky crevasses served ancient inhabitants of these areas as safe places to build communities and farm with … Continued