National parks

Sometimes people ask me about trips I haven’t done yet or places I haven’t been, thinking there must not be much left after decades of doing this. The truth is, there are a whole lot of places I still want to go and experiences I want to try out, including roaming around parts of the …

If you’re longing for open spaces, beautiful scenery, and easy distancing, put a Montana road trip on your list. Ever since the start of the pandemic in 2020, road trip travel has become the most popular kind of travel for Americans it seems. It’s one of the best ways to travel safely and you can …

When you think about summer travel in the USA, what do you picture? Huge crowds, theme parks, and packed beaches? Or a mountain trail, a lake, and forests? There are ways to find space and nature if you plan carefully. When I first put up this post, most everyone in the world had been sheltering …

  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 …