It's curious how many kilometers one is willing to travel to see water doing things. We flew to Iguazu Falls to see it falling off a cliff and drove to Yellowstone to see it burst out of the ground. A few days later we found ourselves driving to see it dig a hole in the ground. That might be just a little sarcastic, but it's true, Grand Canyon is just a hole in the ground. It just happens to be a very big hole. It is a mile deep, ten miles wide and to see it f...

I haven't seen too many westerns, but I have played through Red Dead Redemption on PlayStation 3 quite a few times so I have a pretty good idea of what life was like in the old west. Right? A solitary man, usually played by John Wayne or Clint Eastwood, takes on the world in stunning semi-desert scenery. Usually there's an Indian or two, and a few prospectors with very bad teeth. We've seen our share of Indians in India, where people also had very bad teeth, and ...

After spending a few days in Yellowstone National Park we thought we'd seen enough of Wyoming and decided to head south towards Utah. I wrote about our visit in Grand Teton National Park along the way in my last post, where I also mentioned that we took the scenic US-89 south from there. The road didn't disappoint with its scenery, in Wyoming we drove through endless gorges and plains and after crossing the border to Idaho we got to enjoy the views over Bear Lake...

I mentioned in an earlier post that we had originally planned to do a coast to coast trip in the U.S., but decided to do a round trip instead. One of the reasons for this was that we wanted to visit Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, far to the north from the other places we had in mind. A detour through the park would have taken ages so in the end we made up our minds to plan a different kind of trip. That is to say, we had somewhat high expectations to the p...

I mentioned in an earlier post that we had originally planned to do a coast to coast trip in the U.S., but decided to do a round trip instead. One of the reasons for this was that we wanted to visit Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, far to the north from the other places we had in mind. A detour through the park would have taken ages so in the end we made up our minds to plan a different kind of trip. That is to say, we had somewhat high expectations to the p...