Archive for June, 2012

As you drive up to the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve you have to wonder how this amazing place came about. The drive throughout Colorado to the national park gives you no indication that you are about to approach something out of the ordinary. Nestled against the rugged Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the […]


Before I left on a recent driving trip from Iowa to Las Vegas I had carefully planned out my route. On the Sunday before I was to drive into Las Vegas, my schedule called for a five to six hour stop at Zion National Park in southwestern Utah. I had the time and was in […]