As the summer days get hotter and hotter, often the only way to escape the heat is to run for the mountains. It’s very freeing to sit up on a ridge as a light breeze blows by and peer down on the city below consumed in a hazy glow. Besides being able to step outside the elements of...
Sometimes it’s fun living out west in a state that is still widely undeveloped. Where else can you find authentic country western saloons or wagon wheels? When we can’t get away for a long weekend or travel more than a couple hours outside of Boise, where do we go? We explore...
Banff National Park represents the creme de la creme of the Rocky Mountains. The first national park in Canada and the third in the world, Banff was established in 1885 as a park reserve around the Cave and Basin mineral hot springs (now a historic national site), two years after the...
Crater Lake National Park isn’t well known compared to America’s classics such as Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Great Smoky Mountains to name a few, but it’s truly a sapphire waiting to shine on display once all the snow melts away. Crater Lake is another natural oddity, completely...