We finished our drive out of Nevada’s Great Basin toward Utah, climbing over 2 more summits and their basins until we finally made it to the Wasatch Mountains, the eastern...

The Southern Paiute called this area a word that meant “the place where the rocks are sliding down all the time.” But why do we call it “Cedar Breaks”? Such...

Amazing how our hunger can lead us to interesting places. We ended up outside of the park but still in the Dixie National Forest. This is the local place to...

You know how you’ve heard of places but don’t know anything about them? That’s what Monument Valley was to me—but not to Barney! I assumed that this area was a...

Another strange name that I’ll tell you about later, but if I had known where we were going to be driving, I may have stayed home. But I didn’t so...