Last weekend, with Bo and his brother off to New Mexico for an earthen building event, I decided it was time to see more of this state that is fairly new to me. So, I packed Joda and a bunch of stuff into the car and drove south. And drove, and drove, and drove, and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘national_parks’
Dunes
Posted in travel, tagged Colorado, national_parks on June 4, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The past is everywhere
Posted in history, tagged literature, national_parks on April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
…Or at least it seems that way lately. First it was watching the movie Thunderheart, which I seem to get a hankering to see every few years: all that footage of the South Dakota badlands reminds me so sharply of my days there as a seasonal park ranger in my early 20′s. Then there was [...]
Caves at Lava Beds
Posted in state of Jefferson, tagged Jefferson, national_parks on June 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
About 45 minutes south of Klamath Falls, just over the California border, is Lava Beds National Monument. It’s a strange, flat landscape dotted with cinder cones and littered with dark brown basalt rock. When you look a little closer, you realize that it is also littered with lava tube caves. In my opinion, the caves [...]
