by Steve We went to the moon. Well, not exactly the moon, but something pretty close to it here in the US: Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. This is an area of volcanic activity that was formed during several eruptions dating from 2,000 years ago to 15,000 years ago. There are several types of lava here, including cinder cones, splatter...
by Jane Last year we spent some time in Moab, Utah, visiting Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. But we had some bad weather that kept us from seeing (literally) everything we wanted at Canyonlands, and besides, now we have one of those cool National Park passport books, so we decided a second trip was in order--if only to get the stamps in our...
by Steve May 10, 1869. Promontory Summit, Utah. The driving of the golden spike completed the trans-continental railroad, which finally enabled travel from one coast of the US to the other by train. I always knew the date of the event as it's the same as Jane's birthday (but a different year). But there are a lot of other odd things about the...
by Steve As we crossed North Dakota, we found ourselves following along the path of a previous, more famous (or infamous) traveler: George Custer. From Fargo we headed west to our next stop, near Bismarck, the capitol of North Dakota and home to the most boring capitol building in the US. Near Bismarck is Fort Abraham Lincoln, which was home to the 7th...
by Steve We tend to write about our travels at least a couple weeks after we were in a place. So when you're reading that we are in North Dakota in the middle of October, rest assured that we are not dodging blizzards; we were there earlier, when the weather was nicer. We continued our trek across North Dakota by going to Theodore...
by Steve We are in North Dakota for the first time (for either of us), and so we're trying to see all that we can. We weren't sure what to expect, but we thought that it would be a lot like South Dakota -- pretty much flat with hardly a tree in sight. But it turns out that North Dakota presents quite a...
