I've stated multiple times in different posts that national parks in the United States are made to be toured in vehicles and that no matter how crowded the place seems to be at first glance, one can find solitude simply by walking a few dozen meters off the main paths. Recently we discovered a place that seemed to defy this basic rule, a thing of which we were most unhappy about. I get what the rangers in Zion National Park are trying to achieve, and they are doi...

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...