Butterfly Habitat at the Springs Preserve
Las Vegas, Nevada – November 14, 2025 This is the third winter we are spending in Las Vegas, Nevada. The benefits of spending the winter in the Mojave Desert are many: the temperatures remain fairly warm compared to the rest of the United States (important for even the best-insulated recreational vehicles out there); the campground…
Porcelain Basin at Yellowstone National Park
Norris Geyser BasinSeptember 12, 2025 Finding a parking spot for our Ford F-350 pickup, the 22-feet-long and six-wheeled towing unit of The Goddard, is sometimes a challenge. We usually just park on the outskirts of businesses’ parking lots because, unless the parking spots are oversized, we sometimes take up more than one space. When visiting…
Back Basin at Yellowstone National Park
Norris Geyser BasinSeptember 12, 2025 Norris Geyser Basin, located in the northwest quadrant of Yellowstone National Park, is one of the most active hydrothermal regions in the park and contains rare types of geysers within a geologically active earthquake area. The basin is located near the intersection of three major ground faults, helping to create…
Homol’ovi I
Homolovi State Park, near Winslow, ArizonaApril 16, 2025 We’re camping for two weeks in Homolovi State Park, just a couple miles east of the town of Winslow, Arizona (pop. 9,005; perhaps you’ve heard of it – one of its street corners is mentioned in the Eagles’ first major hit from 1972, “Take It Easy”). This…
Clark County Wetlands Park
Near Las Vegas, Nevada – December 28, 2024 Nancy, Gunther, Rusty, and I are wintering in Las Vegas, Nevada. We arrived here at the beginning of November 2024, with plans to depart in early spring of this year. There are worse places to spend the winter than Las Vegas: the campground at which we’re staying…
Chimney Rock National Monument
September 28, 2024 – Near Pagosa Springs, Colorado The scientific pursuits of geology, archeology, and astronomy combine in a number of interesting ways at Chimney Rock National Monument, located about 20 miles of Pagosa Springs in southwestern Colorado. In late September 2024, the Goddard was parked for a couple of weeks in Pagosa Springs, allowing…
Grand Canyon National Park
Northern Arizona – April 23-25, 2023 As we were walking away from my first viewing of the Grand Canyon, I turned to Nancy (who’d been to the national park on a hiking trip with friends some years earlier) and said, “I wasn’t prepared for that.” And that was an understatement among understatements. I’d seen countless…
Jackson Flat Reservoir
Kanab, Utah – Late May & Early June 2023 I’ve been reading “Riders of the Purple Sage,” one of Zane Grey’s early books that helped shape the Western novel formula. Publishing the book in 1918, Grey (1872-1930) was inspired to write a Western story after reading Owen Wister’s “The Virginian” (1902). It would be the…
Capulin Volcano National Monument
Near Raton, New Mexico – May 4, 2024 Our country’s national monuments and parks provide opportunities to appreciate nature in a variety of forms: mountains and cliffs, seashores and inland beaches, forests and grasslands, along with the animals, plants, and rocks that provide those landscapes with so much interest. The really good monuments and parks,…
Bryce Canyon National Park
Near Panguitch, Utah – June 8, 2023 We were fortunate to be near south-central Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park on June 8, 2023 – the date happened to be the one hundredth anniversary of the park’s founding as a national monument. We had to leave Gunther at home (no dogs are allowed on the park’s…
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