Devils Tower National Monument in WY, After 45 years of being captivated by the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, we finally visited one of the most astounding geologic features in America: Devils Tower. When the GPS showed that…
Gaffney, South Carolina is also known as the Peach Capitol of South Carolina, this “Peachoid” you see in the picture is the main attraction. We released Della at this water tower park where she roamed and sniffed, not paying attention…
Now we are in a starkly different part of South Dakota from the mountainous Custer State Park: Badlands at 2000 feet lower. The two-hour drive across the state through Rapid City was appealing since landscapes changed constantly. At one point,…
Before arriving in Bryce, we drove on an “All-American Road”, a National Scenic Byway 12 that stretches over a hundred miles from Capitol Reef to Bryce. Highway 12 first goes through Dixie National Forest which resembles Virginia with rolling green…