Travel Diaries: California, the Heights

I didn’t visit the mountains in California during my road trip, but I’d been to a couple of different ones before and after. Idyllwild was the first mountain town I visited, just a couple of road hours outside L.A. It was mid August, with triple digit temperatures in the San Gabriel Valley. I thought I…

Travel Diairies: Big Sky Country

I’d been to Montana two times before, but my visit this past summer was just magical. I was so exhausted from having driven over 8,000 miles at that point that all I could think of was getting some rest. I found it in Big Sky Country. Driving into Billings, MT from Rapid City, SD I…

Travel Diaries: Salt Lake City

From Vegas, I headed back onto the I-15, driving north towards Utah. I was in Arizona for all of 30 minutes and had to drive through the Virgin River Canyon. Well, desert canyons are now my impression of Arizona. Pretty soon I was in Utah, driving through the red bluffs near St. George before heading…