We were on the road for less than five minutes when one of the scouts got a flat tire.

What can I say, he’s my kid. The lure to swim was simply too great.

For four years, G3 has talked about his Boy Scout trip to Block Island. It was his first Boy Scout camping trip and also his favorite.

Canyonlands is the last of the Big Five National Parks in Utah and it was our destination for the day. It was also my least favorite park…

Arches National Park has more than 2000 arches. It’s the largest collection of naturally formed arches in the world.

Capitol Reef, in the words of G3, “is pretty, but not stunning.”

Next, we dipped into Arizona for a tour of Antelope Canyon. G3 has wanted to see Antelope Canyon ever since we first flew into Arizona…

The last half a mile was the fun part. Pure rock scramble. So precarious that a metal chain was embedded into the mountain…

G3, however, never wavered in his confidence as to which way we needed to go. I’ve done enough hiking with him to trust his sense…

Bryce Canyon is gorgeous. It is so much prettier than the Grand Canyon,

Great Basin National Park is also the only place in the world the flower holmgren buckwheat grows.

However, when we arrived and stopped into the visitors center, we learned that a twenty year drought has left the lake relatively empty.

Running my fingers over the bones of an animal that lived more than one hundred million years ago was pretty awesome.

Stars, a fire, a nearby river, and cicadas—it’s almost like I stumbled into heaven.

I stepped out of my tent this morning and, as the scent of pine engulfed me, I was momentarily thrust back in time to when I was 21.

And our campsite is amazing. I’m not sure how I got so lucky unless Dad was looking out for us from above.

Thousands of pioneers pushing west—on the Mormon Trail and the Oregon Trail—traveled through the shadow of Scotts Bluff.

Reagan was one of Dad’s favorite modern presidents. He’s the first president I remember running for office.

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