Day 4 would constitute a day full of mesas and buttes. Most of them with names that the Navajo would never have given them…. Such as Elephant Butte. Or Camel Butte. Elephants and camels, in Navajo Nation, seriously. Nonetheless, Monument Valley is impressive. There is a 17-mile dirt road route through the Valley, showcasing many great [...]
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This day was a day I had excitedly been waiting for: Upper Antelope Canyon! It was every bit as amazing as I expected, probably even more so. However, it was also every bit as disappointing with the large number of stressed-out photographers trying to get as many great shots within two hours as possible, fighting [...]
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Day 2 of our road trip through the Southwest brought us to Zion National Park, see the Southwest USA Landscape gallery. We had in mind to go hike into the Narrows for several hours, but since the water was supposedly waist-high and about 45 degrees Fahrenheit, we quickly changed plans and did things the easy [...]
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After the big storms in California two weeks ago, I was hoping to see some great sunsets in the Malibu area, so I headed out to El Matador State Beach. It was a bit hard to find: the sign along the Pacific Coast Highway only says ‘Coastal Access’, but this beach is well worth the [...]
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This Sunday it was time for the Geophysics Fault field trip with the Caltech Seismolab, with as our destination Devil’s Punchbowl at the north side of the San Gabriel Mountains. I have never hiked much in the northern parts, and frankly I was getting a little bored of the San Gabes – usually consisting of [...]
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