For asakiyume

Julien and I have somewhat of a love affair with White Sands. If we can, whenever we are in the States, we go there. I checked my archives for our world trip and see that I failed to make a post about our last visit, which I shall rectify now. How's that for catching up on blogging?

The first time I took Julien (and two of his friends) to ( Read more... )

 Hello, all.

Julien and I have complete the "tourism" part of our USA visit and are now visitng with my family.  Because my grandmother does not have the Internet (we had to drive 7 miles to find a motel with wi-fi we could bum off), so I'll be silent for the next week or so.  I'll try to find the time to write up a post about our last few days and ( Read more... )

We drove down to the Grand Canyon and got our first view of it from the Watchtower, the tower actually being my favorite part of canyon. A kindly park ranger let us use the bbq of a campsite so we could grill our steaks (we didn't want to pay $26 just to pitch a tent). My sister-in-law is a little afraid that we aren't eating well, living out of ( Read more... )

A quick clarification about my previous post: Ten people per day are chosen in a lottery at the Paria BLM office. Ten other people "win" their permits online, but they have to apply 4 months in advance. So, 20 people total have the right to be out there on the Wave on any given day.
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For once, we set our alarm, so we ( Read more... )

A picture of Bryce and another of Zion before I talk about today:


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I can't really remember. I think it was before Arches. I'm sitting in the car outside a general store by Bryce Canyon, watching the snow zip by, and don't feel like going into much detail. So, let's sum up.

Arches: Pretty enough, but it was the massive juts of solitary stone, like the Courthouse, that impressed me more than the arches. We made ( Read more... )

Check out that gorgeous willow scrub. This was after our fossil hunting outing, of which there will soon be photos--have to take the shots of our finds first. (Yes, frigg, we did find a few little fishies. ;) Little, but cool. ) Sadly, the sunbeam didn't last long enough for me to do the purples justice.


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In T -40 minutes, Julien and I are going fossil hunting in George's quarry. We don't know who the heck George is, but Bob from Bob's Rock Shop sent us there this morning, saying it was our best bet for finding someone to take us out in the wet. Apparently, after rains, it's not the best time to go fossil hunting, but we're here and hunting we ( Read more... )

The weather forecast promised rain for our last day in Yellowstone, and the skies certainly looked threatening, but the showers didn't happen upon us until we reached the Grand Tetons.

What would be a visit to Yellowstone without touring the geysers and hot springs in the Old Faithful area? Non-touristy, for one thing, and seeing as how we are ( Read more... )

Julien and I slept in a hotel in West Yellowstone, Montana last night instead of hiking 3 or so miles to our planned (and reserved) backcountry campsite. I was sitting in the driver's seat, puncturing the blisters on my feet and dreading putting on my wet hiking boots, when Julien reminded me that I should not try to be a hero, inciting the time I ( Read more... )