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Red Canyon Overlook, Road Trip Attraction
Red Canyon Overlook Red Canyon Overlook and Flaming Gorge is one of the most underrated road trip destinations in the US. The drive is beautiful and shows all that North Eastern Utah has to offer. The Uintah Basin is an outdoors-man’s paradise, world-class fly-fishing, rock climbing, river rafting, hiking and national park quality landscapes without the crowds. Paleontologist come here to study dinosaurs, as well as white water kayakers who love the challenge. It has historically acclaimed petroglyphs dating back hundreds, even thousands of years. Those instagrammers won’t know what hit them. This trip will offer unique photos that will have people asking. Where is that? Directions From Vernal, Utah,…
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Goodbye Anthony Bourdain: 1956-2018
Anthony Bourdain wrote in one of his books about the loneliness that travelers feel. That the more you see of the world the harder it is to come home. And I instantly understood what he meant. I don’t think it’s loneliness we travelers feel but a sense that no matter where you are you don’t belong. And as much as you love being home you can’t stay. You find a new place and for a while it’ll feel right. You’ll think this fits. You’ll think you fit. That is until it doesn’t and you don’t. Everywhere you visit you fall in love and you can see yourself living there, belonging…
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The First Thing About The Grand Canyon
What You Need To Know The biggest, possibly critical, detail missed by people before they plan a trip to the Grand Canyon. You can’t see and do it all in one day. If you want to brave the Skywalk in GC West and take a selfie at Horseshoe Bend you’ll need to make the 5 1/2 hour drive to get from one end of the park to the other. Not exactly a day trip. Attractions The top three attractions that bring people to the grand canyon are the South Rim, Horseshoe Bend, and the Skywalk. But did you know you can’t visit all three in one day. They’re hours apart…
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Everything About Grand Canyon West
What You Don’t Know The thing a lot of people think they know but they don’t really know-know is just how huge the Grand Canyon actually is. And the Grand Canyon West is no exception. They know it’s wide, they know it’s deep but they don’t comprehend just how large this amazing world wonder is. Here are some numbers for you just to put it into perspective. Measurements The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446km) long, up to 18 miles (29Km) wide and over a mile deep (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters). That’s big, like really really big. 1,921.6 square miles BIG to be exact or 1,229,824 acres but for…
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James Bond Island: Is it worth it?
Is James Bond Island Worth The trip? As absolutely beautiful as Phuket, Thailand was, if you are going because of the amazing pictures of James Bond Island (otherwise known as Khao Phing Kan) like this one, You may want to know a few things. It’s Very Short For starters. This island is considerably smaller than the photos make it look, much smaller. It is tiny and not what we were expecting at all. It’s only 66 feet tall. There are Christmas trees in Madison Square Garden that are taller than that. No Information A second thing, something no one informed us about. We asked many times and I’d looked at…
