Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

After visiting Mono Lake, we headed north to the Lake Tahoe area.  Here is the view from our window while staying with friends Amy and Eddie in Incline Village, NV: Amy and Eddie were our guides on our trip to Mongolia this summer.  Our visit was too short, but we had a great time catching […]

Man, there are a lot of ghost towns out here.  Yesterday, we went to one of the best preserved towns I’ve ever seen.  It’s a town called Bodie, north of Mono Lake near the Nevada border.  The town is a National Historic Landmark and a State Park, so there are serious conservation efforts and even […]

After leaving Death Valley, we traveled north on the eastern side of the Sierras. It’s a beautiful drive. We made a short stop in Bishop mid-day to see the Galen Rowell’s gallery called Mountain Light. Some truly amazing photographs – highly recommended if you’re in the area. That night we set up camp at our […]

Here is the view from our tent at our campground in Lee Vining, CA, near Mono Lake in the eastern Sierras: We stayed for two nights – what a pretty region! – Meredith

There is an area within Death Valley NP called The Racetrack. It’s an old lake bed, long ago dried up, that has large rocks scattered around its surface. A phenomenon occurs there where the rocks slide in various directions around the mud, leaving a groove behind them (no one has ever seen it actually happen […]

Death Valley is one of the few places on this trip that Dave has been to, but I have not.  When I was 7, my family took a big summer trip out west and we visited lots of places in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and California.  But we didn’t go to Death Valley because […]

Here is the view from our tent in Death Valley NP, where we’re staying for 3 nights: We’re in a little NP "Village" called Stovepipe Wells, which is at sea level.  The campground looks like a parking lot for RVs except for the row of tent spots up against a sandy area with creosote bushes […]

We left my cousin’s place in Southern California to drive to Death Valley.  We left Friday at noon, which I now know is when people are driving to Vegas for the weekend.  The traffic didn’t bother me so much, but these Southern California drivers are CRAZY.  Apparently, these people just couldn’t wait to get to […]

We stayed two nights with my cousin Pam in Laguna Niguel, CA, but we forgot to take a picture from our window. We do have a picture of me and Pam on the beach though: Happy cousins We had a wonderful time with Pam and the family she lives with (a mom and dad, two […]

Zion National Park is probably one of the most scenic parks we’ve been to on this trip.  It’s not the largest park, but it has a huge variety of scenery, due to its range in elevation and lots of water.  The main part of the park is a 6-mile stretch of Zion Canyon, a massive […]