Our Japan Itinerary efficiently covered in 11 days what would normally take 2 weeks or more to accomplish on typical mass transit itineraries.

Our Guam Itinerary covered 9 days (7 full days) on Thanksgiving week in November where we mixed up boonie stomping with family time resorting.

This last-minute Flagstaff Itinerary during an extended monsoon season was largely motivated by timing a visit to the Grand Falls.

Our Queensland Itinerary covered a 12-day period that was actually cut short, but we still salvaged experiences despite the circumstances.

Our Bali Itinerary covered an action-packed 10 days in mid-June where we explored as much of the island as we possibly could in this time.

Our Northern Territory Itinerary covered a 9-day visit covering the Top End where we got to experience new and old sights along the way!

Our Puerto Rico Itinerary covered a 10-day Spring Break where we explored as much of the island as we possibly could..

This Yosemite and Sonoma Itinerary was basically a long 3-day road trip that encompassed the firefall event and the scenic Sonoma Coast.

Our Kauai and Oahu Itinerary covered a 9-day Thanksgiving Week ‘Fall Break’ to this pair of Hawaiian Islands seeking new experiences.

Our 18-day Post COVID-19 Itinerary Covering Most Of Iceland’s Accessible Waterfalls and Popular Sights both Old and New

Our 18-day Pacific Northwest Itinerary Covering Nevada, Southern Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California

Our Pacific Northwest Itinerary covered an 11-day Spring Break trip to Southern Idaho, Northern Oregon, and Northern California.

This Carmel and Big Sur Coast Weekend Itinerary was another couples-retreat kind of a trip, but it was booked at the very last-minute.

This very last-minute Northern California Coast Weekend Itinerary allowed us to experience a part of the state we had never done before.

This Rocky Mountains Weekend Itinerary was a last-minute attempt to experience the Fall colors in the Rockies given the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic pretty much messed up our plans and aspirations to continue waterfalling abroad, especially when we realized that Americans were pretty much shut out from the rest of the world.

This Napa Valley and Sonoma 3-day weekend itinerary mixed waterfalls with the typical food and wine self-guided tour on a brief road trip from Los Angeles…

This was a trip where Julie and I took a breather from the day-to-day to celebrate our 15-year wedding anniversary as well as coupling that with Julie’s birthday. Samoa was the last of the major South Pacific Islands destinations that we had yet to go waterfalling…

The Scandinavia Trip Itinerary page details our epic two-month family trip in the Summer covering almost all of Norway, Sweden, and the best of Denmark…

Our Bay Area Itinerary covered a week-long Spring Break trip to both the northern and southern San Francisco Bay featuring iconic highlights and waterfalls.

This was a quick weekend getaway trip to celebrate Valentine’s Day a week early. The timing was about right because we managed to avoid pretty heavy Winter storms in the Anza Borrego desert while also leaving Julian right before the next round of oncoming Winter snows…

This was a quick weekend getaway trip to celebrate Julie’s birthday. Given that we needed some time off from Tahia and from all my troubles with the big website migration as well as the usual day job dramas, Julie and I did this trip alone…

This epic trip was one of our more daring trips (which was saying something considering we were traveling independently in mostly developed countries), but it was one in which we had to rely more on our planning as well as rolling with the punches…

This was one of our more unusual trips in that it was the longest trip we’ve done involving a party of seven people. Of course, three of them were children as they all had the same Spring Break schedule. My parents also came along…

This was essentially a redo of a trip that took place back in November 2006, when it was adversely affected by some of Australia’s worst drought on record at the time.  This time around, Julie and I once again did this trip together alone…

With Summer in full swing and a daughter that was growing and learning quickly (though out-of-school for nearly three months), we figured that we needed to do a road trip to experience the world in ways that are simply not possible…

The goal of this weekend trip was to expose my nephew to our favorite haunt – Yosemite National Park. Tahia had been here before, but we also wanted to keep both the kids engaged by allowing them to keep each other…

This was a pretty spontaneous and last-minute long weekend trip where we never really had long term plans to make it happen. Salt Lake City was always one of those “one of these days” type destinations…

This was a trip where we tested the limits of our personal car as well as the limits of how much I could drive in a span of a week-and-a-half. We’ve always wanted to go to New Mexico and Colorado, and this was our opportunity…

This was kind of a spontaneous last-minute long weekend trip where we waited for the kids to get out of school, then headed right up to Lone Pine, which was the base of our excursions in and out of Death Valley…

This was a very last-minute, spur-of-the-moment trip where we just went for it and made our booking literally days before actually making the drive out here.  It was the perfect storm of saving money as well as…

This trip began as a business trip for work, where I had to attend a review held by contractors who were based in Colorado Springs.  However, we figured out that we could use airline miles so Julie and Tahia could …

This was a quick weekend trip where Julie and I decided to do turn a typical weekend into a Valentine’s Weekend even though the actual day itself was nearly a week later.  At least that meant that it would be…

This trip was really about letting the kids have fun at Legoland. However, Julie, Tahia, and I showed up a day earlier than my brother’s family.  Therefore, we had an opportunity to fit in a waterfall hike…

This was a trip where Mom and I split off so Dad could hang out with friends from his college days. Although I had waterfalling targets throughout the island based on the exploits from those who cataloged…

This itinerary was actually one-half of a two-country, 3.5-week trip encompassing both Japan and Taiwan. In this itinerary write-up, we’re only focusing on Japan since this leg of the trip could easily stand out as…

This was one of those trips that served dual purposes. Since I went alone with my parents, they got to see parts of Northern California and Southern Oregon that they had never seen before (or at least not in the way that Julie and I have done in the past, which mostly involved hiking to waterfalls)….

This particular week-long trip was a long time coming. Up until now, we had a major hole in our survey of waterfalls in our home state of California. Even though Mom and I had visited a very small sampling of waterfalls in the far northern…

This was a long weekend trip where I spontaneously decided to do a trip to visit waterfalls in the far north of California for the first time. Given the driving distances, neither Julie nor I went waterfalling north of Sacramento….

This was a Spring Break trip where we took our daughter along for a bit of a trip to the heart of Texas as well as the Bayou, and even further to the north in the Ozarks and in Sooner Country. After starting off the trip….

This trip was a repeat of what Julie and I had done nearly 8 years prior. The difference with this trip was that we had endured a bit of a drought, there was no unexpected snow storm, and we came in with more knowledge…

This trip was really about letting Tahia enjoy herself at Legoland for her birthday. I tried to be opportunistic about using this trip to visit a couple of waterfalls that we hadn’t done before, but given the dry Winters that we had…

The premise of this trip was to celebrate a combination of our wedding anniversary as well as Julie’s birthday. It also coincided with a particularly busy time at work where this last-minute break was much needed…

This was one of those seize-the-moment trips where we had an opportunity to make a last-minute trip to explore the Great Lakes area at a time when the Fall Colors should be in the process of intensifying…

Although I had been to the Eastern Sierra of California (particular around the Mammoth Lakes vicinity) many times, this was the first time our daughter got to experience it for herself. It was also Julie’s first time back here in a little over a decade…

This itinerary covered the remaining 32 days of an epic six-week trip covered the countries of Morocco and Spain. Each country could be considered in their own separate itineraries, which was how I’ve broken it up to better modularize the trip logistics…

This itinerary was actually the first 11 days of an epic six-week itinerary covered the countries of Morocco and Spain. Each country could be considered in their own separate itineraries, which was how I’ve broken it up to better modularize…

This itinerary summaries the familiar Big Sur Coast as well as Monterey. But what made this trip different from our prior ones was that we brought our daughter along. Thus, we got a different experience as it now mattered more to us…

This itinerary was of a brief weekend overnight trip to Santa Barbara during the weekend of Valentine’s Day. Unlike the similar trip to the area that Julie and I did nearly six years prior to this trip, this one was stricken by a crippling drought that gripped much of California…

This itinerary covered about a week-and-a-half in the island nation of Vanuatu. Julie and I were celebrating our ten year anniversary, but it also doubled as a birthday celebration for Julie….

This month-long itinerary was our initiation to the United Kingdom, which was pretty much like visiting three countries (England, Scotland, and Wales) in a single trip. Unlike our previous European vacations to this point, we brought our daughter this time…

This unusual itinerary was a rare opportunity to turn an otherwise not-so-pleasant business trip into one where I was able to spend time with my wife and daughter after the meeting was over. And this was possible without incurring…

This itinerary was designed to maximize our time during the peak of the Autumn colors in the northeastern part of the United States (otherwise known as New England) as well as the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario…

This was a weekend backpacking trip that began and ended in Onion Valley. The ultimate main goal of this physical challenge was to get up to the Kearsarge Pass (and get the kind of Eastern Sierra panorama that many in the backpacking…

This itinerary covered a three-week trip to mostly Central and Northern Italy. Julie and I traveled alone on this trip since we thought Tahia was too little to deal with the inevitable cigarette smoke as well as the additional logistics involved when you bring a third person along…

This itinerary was kind of our last-minute extended weekend visit to Idaho, where we encapsulated a visit to see a long-time friend and her newborn along with some waterfalls and sightseeing…

This itinerary of our visit to Yosemite National Park was pretty much motivated by catching the natural firefall phenomenon where Horsetail Falls would be lit up by the setting sun in such a way that the falling waters glow red while everything else…

In this itinerary, we covered the familiar Society Islands of Tahiti (also more formally known as French Polynesia). Thus, we spent time on Tahiti Island, Moorea Island, and Bora Bora Island…

Our trip to the Southeastern United States in the Southern Appalachian Mountain Range was kind of an odd trip for Julie and I because it was a region that we had never really seriously considered visiting.
But one thing we learned over the years was that you haven’t really…

This itinerary covered a three-week trip that can be split up into two parts. The first part of the trip was pretty much a week-long self-driving loop of a limited part of Northern France that started and ended in Paris. The second part of the trip covered two weeks of a much longer loop…

This trip was for “healing” because I was getting over the death of my grandmother who had passed just a month earlier. With Julie’s Mom and My Mom taking turns watching over our daughter, Julie and I did this badly needed trip, which turned out to be the first international trip for the entire year!

This trip was the second part of a longer 2.5-week itinerary combining a road trip over parts of Washington State and an Alaskan Cruise. Each part of this trip could be done as separate itineraries, which is why I split them up in this manner…

This trip was the first part of a longer 2.5-week itinerary combining a road trip over parts of Washington State and an Alaskan Cruise. Each part of this trip could be done as separate itineraries, which is why I split them up in this manner.

This was a weekend backpacking trip that began and ended at Lake Sabrina. The ultimate main goal of this physical challenge was to get as far as the Hungry Packer Lake, which was one of several lakes of glacial origin in the area. The Eastern Sierra was full of these kinds…

With our daughter not quite 5 months old, we did this trip as another test of what we can and can’t do with a baby. We also brought Julie’s Mom along since we figured that this would be a pretty easy trip as far as the amount of sightseeing and hiking that we were doing…

This itinerary covers how we managed to experience the Canadian Rockies and Glacier National Park in Montana. It was a trip where we had to rearrange plans to avoid the brunt of a freak early Winter snow storm that took place in September!

This itinerary was the result of a failed backpacking trip where the senior trip leader and organizer had to back out. There were other participants that also had to back out of this trip at the last minute. So it was pretty much my good buddy Ed and I who were left…

For Julie and I, this was our first European trip together. And like most people who visit Europe for the first time, we visited multiple countries. In this case, we visited Greece, Croatia, and Switzerland. This itinerary was the last part of the three-part 30-day journey….

For Julie and I, this was our first European trip together. And like most people who visit Europe for the first time, we visited multiple countries. In this case, we visited Greece, Croatia, and Switzerland. This itinerary was the second part of the three-part 30-day journey…

For Julie and I, this was our first European trip together. And like most people who visit Europe for the first time, we visited multiple countries. In this case, we visited Greece, Croatia, and Switzerland. This itinerary was the first part of the three-part…

This itinerary covered a return trip to Point Reyes as well as introducing us to the waterfalls at Mt Tamalpais (both north of the city of San Francisco). We also went south and visited the Big Basin Redwoods State Park (southwest of Silicon Valley)…

This itinerary covered a return trip to Big Sur for the first time in about six years. Part of what motivated us to make this return visit was that this Winter was one of the wetter Winters that we’ve had in recent memory. So we knew the waterfalls…

This itinerary was the Cook Islands leg of our 31-day trip to New Zealand and the Cook Islands. It was basically an unwinding of the more active trip we did of both islands in New Zealand…

This itinerary was the first part of our month-long end-of-the-year (and end-of-the-decade for that matter) trip to both New Zealand and the Cook Islands. This first part focuses only on the New Zealand leg of the trip…

This itinerary was the second part of a longer 23-day trip to both India and the Maldives. In a way, this Maldives leg of the trip was kind of the vacation away from the vacation largely because of how intense our visit to India had been…

This itinerary was the first part of our 3.5-week trip that encompassed both Indian and the Maldives. That first leg of the trip focused on India. This trip was definitely way out of our comfort zone, but I would also argue that we probably learned…

This itinerary was a follow-up to the Oregon trip that we had done about 5-6 months prior. Back then, Mother Nature threw a wrench into our plans with snow in the mountains. So we had to make last-minute cancellations and retreat to the coast…

This itinerary covered a backpacking trip to Big Pine Creek and its many glacial lakes. I accompanied an organized group that included a good friend from High School as well as folks from the law firm that he worked at…

This itinerary was actually the latter half of a two-country, nearly two-month trip encompassing China and Japan. In this itinerary write-up, we’re only focusing on Japan since this leg of the trip could easily stand out on its own Japan separate from China…

This itinerary was actually the latter half of a two-country, nearly two-month trip encompassing China and Japan. In this itinerary write-up, we’re only focusing on Japan since this leg of the trip could easily stand out on its own Japan separate from China…

This itinerary focused on spending a week in the state of Oregon. The main purpose of this trip was to sample the plethora of waterfalls that were here – both within the famous Columbia River Gorge as well as outside the waterfall-rich area…

This itinerary covered our long overdue visit to Sedona as an extended weekend. My ulterior motive of basing ourselves in Sedona was to finally visit the Grand Falls. Aside from this waterfall, everything else was just icing on the cake…

This was a very brief Valentine’s Day weekend overnight trip to Santa Barbara. This city has long been like a little weekend getaway spot for us, but tried to capitalize on the fact that we were in the middle of California’s historically rainiest month…

This itinerary covered a three-week trip to Thailand as well as a few days in Cambodia. I’ve opted to combine this into a single itinerary since it’s reasonable to assume that many visitors to Cambodia will only do it as an add-on to a Thailand trip as we had done…

This itinerary covered our visit to St Lucia over the Thanksgiving Weekend. Due to the national holiday, we only needed to take one day off work, and it turned out that the short Thanksgiving week was not a bad time to travel abroad…

This itinerary of our visit to Kaieteur Falls was probably our craziest far-flung trip to date. We basically crammed a trip to Guyana (on the northern part of South America) into the long Labor Day Weekend with no work days taken off…

This trip was the second major leg of our epic around-the-world tour that consisted of Eastern Australia as well as selected countries of East Africa. The Africa portion of the trip consisted of a series of tours run by tour operators who each specialized…

This trip was the second major leg of our epic around-the-world tour that consisted of Eastern Australia as well as selected countries of East Africa. The Africa portion of the trip consisted of a series of tours run by tour operators who each specialized…

This trip was the second major leg of our epic around-the-world tour that consisted of Eastern Australia as well as selected countries of East Africa. The Africa portion of the trip consisted of a series of tours run by tour operators who each specialized…

This trip was the second major leg of our epic around-the-world tour that consisted of Eastern Australia as well as selected countries of East Africa. The Africa portion of the trip consisted of a series of tours run by tour operators who each specialized…

This trip was the second major leg of our epic around-the-world tour that consisted of Eastern Australia as well as selected countries of East Africa. The Africa portion of the trip consisted of a series of tours run by tour operators who each specialized…

This itinerary covered part of the second major leg of our epic around-the-world tour that consisted of Eastern Australia as well as selected countries of East Africa. This was an independent self-tour…

This trip was the first major leg of our epic around-the-world tour that consisted of Eastern Australia as well as selected countries of East Africa. The Australia portion of the trip was a self-drive self-tour while the Africa portion…

This trip pertains to a quick fully escorted trip to Peru. It not only included the typical Cusco-Machu Picchu itinerary (i.e. the so-called “Gringo Trail”), but we also spent the majority of our time in the Amazonas Region of Northern Peru…

This itinerary pertained to a dedicated Big Island weekend trip. We waimed to visit the remaining waterfalls (or at least see them flowing) that we either missed or didn’t have a good experience for in our previous visits…

This was a very brief overnight trip to Julian in celebration of Valentine’s Day. While one normally associates this day with romance (or heartbreak, depending on your situation), Julie and I remembered this trip in terms of hiking and driving under a freak snow storm…

Julie and I remembered this Big Island Trip well because it was one in which bad weather pretty much kept us from accomplishing any of the goals that we had set out to do. What happened was that unprecedented heavy rains (from Climate Change?)…

This itinerary covers our visit to Patagonia from both the Argentina as well as Chile sides. Included in this two-week trip were a few days spent in Buenos Aires (the capital of Argentina) as well as a fruitful layover in Miami’s South Beach…

This itinerary of our visit to Angel Falls pretty much revolved around an organized tour that would allow us to access the remote waterfall. It took the entire week of Thanksgiving, but I’m still kicking myself for not taking a few extra days…

This itinerary of our visit to Iguazu Falls was designed in the interest of limited time as it took place over the Labor Day Weekend plus a couple of additional days off to extend the holiday to a total of five days…

This trip covers the Iceland portion of a month-long Summer trip that also included a brief stopover in Western New York as well as New York City (with Julie’s cousin) after the Iceland part of the trip. I’m including the New York City part of the trip…

This itinerary was actually part of a more grand month-long trip to Iceland.  We made a detour to Western New York and spent nearly a week self-driving around the Finger Lakes area using Buffalo…

This itinerary covers our first taste of the Big Island of Hawai’i as well as a brief stint on the island of O’ahu. Thus, I guess you can say this was our “island hopping” trip…

This itinerary of our return visit to Maui took advantage of a couple of things. First, a friend of ours let us use her timeshare in Ka’anapali, which helped alleviate some of the accommodation costs (not cheap in Maui or in the Hawaiian Islands in general)…

This itinerary of our visit to O’ahu was very strange in that it was made possible due to a raffle that Julie won from some kind of travel agent convention. It turned out that the airfare and car rental were comped, but the accommodation was not…

This itinerary covers our first visit to Kaua’i. This trip took place during the expensive holiday week between Christmas and New Years. And even though we stayed on just this island for slightly over an entire week, we did switch accommodations twice…

This itinerary covers our second trip to Australia six months after our first trip. This time, however, we focused on the Southeastern part of the country spanning the states of New South Wales, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory (or ACT), South Australia, and Tasmania…

This itinerary encompassed a weekend trip to the Grand Staircase National Monument in Southern Utah. I was joined by my Mom, and the timing of this trip was kind of like a little birthday celebration for her.
Meanwhile, Julie was with her Mom in Europe…

This itinerary covers our very first trip to Australia, which focused on two of the country’s largest states – the Northern Territory and Western Australia. I guess you could call this the stereotypical Outback Trip because we did indeed visit some of the country’s iconic…

This five-day Memorial Day Weekend itinerary was largely a result of one of Julie’s cousins getting married in their home city of Seattle. Of course, we also saw this as an opportunity to fit in some waterfalling and sightseeing…

This itinerary was about our trip to Death Valley for the first time. Although this trip involved a lot of long drives, Julie and I were surprisingly able to accomplish quite a bit in terms of all the sights we wanted to see in Death Valley itself…

This itinerary of our weekend visit to Yosemite National Park was all about catching the firefall as it was one of the few things left that I didn’t try from The Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite by Michael Frye….

In this itinerary, Julie and I took a tropical vacation during the holiday season between Christmas and New Years in Fiji. Something really quirky about this trip was that we flew out on the evening of Christmas Eve and we landed in Fiji on Boxing Day…

This itinerary summarizes our trip in Norway, which was sort of a follow-up trip hot on the heels of our real eye-opener in New Zealand. This was one trip where I really wished we had more time because this was an extremely waterfall-centric trip…

This itinerary of Kings Canyon National Park, Sequoia National Park, and Sequoia National Forest took place over a Memorial Day Weekend. I was accompanied by my Mom and Dad while Julie stayed at home to see friends…

This weekend itinerary for Yosemite National Park covered Yosemite Valley as well as a little bit of Hetch Hetchy. By now, we were quite familiar with all the most accessible sights within the reserve. Really, the main motivation for this trip was to introduce…

As you can see by the title of this page, this itinerary was our honeymoon with a destination wedding in the Land of the Long White Cloud. For Julie and I, this was the trip that opened up our eyes to what was out there in the world…

This Labor Day Weekend Itinerary pertained to a camping trip within the Cedar Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park. Since it took place well into the Summer…

This itinerary of our visit to Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton national Park was largely with a tight budget where we booked ahead for campsites for about half the trip while staying lodges for the remainder of the nights…

This itinerary covered a weekend visit to Yosemite National Park, but instead of coming in from the usual entrances in the west, we focused on going in and out of the park from its “back door” over the Tioga Pass…

This itinerary covered my one and only backpacking trip within the boundaries of Yosemite National Park (at least in the first 15 years that Julie and I have been waterfalling)…

This itinerary covered a return trip to the quiet southern part of Yosemite National Park. And like the first time around, we did it as a camping trip out of the Wawona Campground. Indeed, with a trip like this where we based ourselves away…

This itinerary covered a very brief overnight trip to Point Reyes. The lone goal of this trip was to finally see Alamere Falls after having seen McWay Falls in Big Sur quite a few times…

This itinerary covered another weekend spent at Yosemite National Park. However, what differentiated this particular visit was that we targeted some of the less-explored parts of the park. This included the backcountry of Hetch Hetchy Valley…

This itinerary covered a weekend at Yosemite National Park that I cynically referred to as the “change-in-company-vacation-policy” trip because they essentially changed the rules in such a way that I either had to use some vacation hours or lose them…

This itinerary covered our first visit to Maui (and the Hawaiian Islands in general). It was kind of a spontaneous trip where Julie apparently took advantage of some travel deal that included car rental, all accommodations, and airfare…

As a follow-up to the Half Dome hike that Julie and I had accomplished just a month before this trip, we had also planned and executed on the Zion Narrows hike to scratch that off the bucket list…

This weekend itinerary covered our camping trip in Yosemite National Park centered around a hike to the top of iconic Half Dome. The trip planning started from the moment I had made camping reservations 24 weeks in advance…

Kind of on a whim, I decided to take advantage of the Memorial Day Weekend while Julie was also out-of-town on business. So I was accompanied by my Mom on this very spontaneous trip to some familiar haunts in Southern Utah…

In this itinerary, we did a weekend camping trip where the focus of this visit was to explore the quiet southern section of Yosemite National Park, particularly in the Wawona area…

This extended weekend trip marked the third time that Julie and I had been to Zion National Park. So we were now becoming quite familiar with what attractions were here. And given our familiarity with this place, we also camped for both the nights of this weekend…

This trip was intended to share with the parents the wonderful experiences that Julie and I (along with a couple of friends) had just a couple of years prior when we did a Grand Circle trip. But since we had to fit this into a weekend, this exposure could only come in increments…

I called this trip our Big Sur Errands trip because we used a weekend to scout out possible wedding venues. Of course, since we were already up here, we also took advantage of being able to go waterfalling in between these venue visits…

With our waterfalling passion in full swing, I had this idea to try to time a visit to Zion National Park (and its harsh desert environment) in the hopes of seeing waterfalls. What transpired was this short weekend trip where we managed to see waterfalls under a rain storm…

This itinerary was of a planned Thanksgiving extended weekend trip to the Havasupai Indian Reservation. The obvious goals were to experience the main waterfalls – Havasu Falls, Mooney Falls, and Navajo Falls…

This itinerary covered our very first time visiting Tahiti (more formally known as French Polynesia). With the effects of 9/11 still being felt as far as Americans traveling abroad, Julie seized the opportunity to go for this trip for what turned out to be…

This itinerary was of a return trip to the Eastern Sierras based in the Mammoth Lakes area during July 4th Weekend. It took place barely a month after our first serious waterfalling trip in Yosemite National Park…

This trip was the very first time that we explored Yosemite National Park with the primary purpose of visiting waterfalls (or waterfalling, if you will). Since I’d imagine we were in the infant stages of our waterfall addiction, it turned out that the timing of this trip…

This itinerary concerned a short trip to the Tule River District of the Sequoia National Forest. Since we were staying in a town called Ponderosa, I tend to refer to this trap as the “Ponderosa Trip”…

This itinerary was the first time that Julie and I visited Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks together. We also happened to have timed our visit for the opening of the road to the Cedar Grove section of Kings Canyon…

In this itinerary, Julie and I took advantage of the Labor Day Weekend so neither of us needed to take a day off. This trip targeted a visit to the Eastern Sierras while basing ourselves out of the Mammoth Lakes area…

This was a week-and-a-half of touring what I called the Grand Circle. This circle consisted of the natural attractions that covered Southern Utah and Northern Arizona, especially the National Parks since there were so many of them in this vast expanse of the desert southwest…

This itinerary covered a brief weekend trip to the Big Sur Coast. For Julie and I, this was our very first time exploring this part of the California Central Coast together, and since we were in the budding stages of our waterfalling passion at the time…