Saturday, November 6, 2010

Do you know the way to Santa Fe


Mark in 4 states at one time!


It's funny. The 4 corners literally comes down to one teeny tiny little point. You can touch 4 states with your pinky finger

From the 4 corners we picked colorado and camped in the san juan national forest just past durango. Then we stopped at bandelier national monument on the way to Santa fe. Lots of cool pueblos and ladders to climb up into them!



Looking out


Climbing up 140 feet of ladders


A kiva waaay up in the cliff


New Mexico sky

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Yes we canyon (sorry, that's all we got)

On our way from death valley we stopped at red rocks, just outside of las Vegas. From Vegas we drove over the Hoover dam and camped in the kaibab national forest just outside of the grand canyon!


Red rock national conservation area. Really beautiful with lizards and wild burros!


Wild burros! For real


Arizona sky


No words


It's wandering male tarantula season! Just in time for Halloween! Eek!


We were excited :)



South kaibab trail into the canyon


2000 feet below the rim



A little close to the edge


The canyon at sunset

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Deadly desert

Death valley was sooo neat! It's consistently the hottest place in the world!



Naturally occurring sand dunes in death valley


Zabriskie point


Joshua trees!


Devils golf course. Salt formations covered the ancient lake bed


Beautiful colors naturally occur!



Crunchy salt deposits



Lil coyotes. Stay wild!

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Everywhere you look....

San Francisco...rainy, but fun!
Thanks Katie and Nate once again for everything! Nick is so cute and I love how much he loves star wars! That's good parenting in my book!


Walking through thick fog to the light house in Point Reyes national seashore.


Golden gate bridge! Mark played the full house theme song as we drove over


Beautiful yosemite falls. The longest waterfall in the US!


Hey sequoia. So the trees we saw along the coast are also technically sequoias, but they're called redwoods. They grow much taller than the sequoias in yosemite and are a bit skinnier too.


Here's our van :) She's still running well! It's getting a little ripe smelling, though. Could be the dead elk teeth


Broke off a piece of chocolate Pennsylvania

Friday, October 22, 2010

Sweet trees

Camped in Redwood NP with a great view. The next day we hiked in to see the Tall Trees grove where one of the tallest trees in the world lives! The hike was fun, but a little spooky with the trees creaking in the wind!


Campsite


These nooks are called goosepens because people would keep geese in them! Fun.


This huge heard of elk was just hangin out by the road!


A ripe nana slug


Big tree!



Sounds of the fooooreeest