National parks

If you’re longing for open spaces, beautiful scenery, and easy distancing, put a Montana road trip on your list. Since Americans are being shunned around the world after bungling the virus response and flying on some airlines is especially risky, road trip travel is the most popular kind here this year. It’s one of the …

As I write this, most everyone in the world has been sheltering in place for two months or more and almost nobody is traveling from place to place. As the summer vacation season rolls around though, people are getting antsy. Is traveling safely going to be possible in this environment? What will that look like?  …

  If you could travel anywhere in Wyoming, where would you go? As I close out one year and look forward to the next, I’m getting excited about a few places I know I’ll be going: a few countries in Europe and the western USA. My one big regret now that my daughter is off …

Jiuzhaigou, literally “Nine Village Valley,” is a UNESCO World Heritage park in China on the Tibetan Plateau and is a nature playground for visitors from China and abroad. If you look at a map of China below, you can see it’s kind of a place where the roads end, at the western end of where …

The USA is blessed with some amazing national parks that draw visitors from around the world. Some of the most impressive and best-known ones are in a cluster that’s relatively easy to get to, however. You can start in one of the country’s best travel value cities (Las Vegas) and make an inexpensive small town …