Slot machines in the airport
Slot machines by baggage claim
Just outside Las Vegas - almost nothing
Really big Hooters...
Penn & Teller: Fewer audience injuries than last year!
Spiral Escalator - I definitely invented this several years ago...
Singing Gondoliers in The Venetian
'Cause the real Venice has spontaneous operettas in the streets too!
Leaving Nevada
Pahrump? Really?
Heading to Death Valley
Dante's Point, Death Valley, CA
Enjoy Death Valley!
Cactus made of horseshoes with nails sticking out
A fault line!
Driving to Yosemite
Accidentally in uniform?
Lots of smoke in the air from a wildfire on the south side of Yosemite
Not sure what this is but it looks like some sort of chipmunk hybrid...
Sun setting through the smoke
Sequoia
Golden Gate bridge
Alcatraz!
Nice shades, Adrian
The bay. Notice the lack of fog. SF has a weird microclimate.
Sausalito
An interesting guy
Clouds over SF
More Sausalito
Sailboats in Sausalito
Musee du Legion d'Honneur in SF
Windmill in Golden Gate Park
Strange fruit
Lombard St., the steepest street in SF
Coit Tower
A very serious little girl using the internet
Trans-America Building
Adult candy
SF Hyatt elevators
SF Hyatt
Walt Disney Concert Hall designed by (obviously) Frank Gehry
SEGWAY!
Santa Monica Beach
I was on one too, hence the weird angle. This was taken behind the back.
Me. On a Segway. I enjoyed this way too much.
Venice
Someone's cool fishtank in Venice, LA
On the road...
Sunset colors
Clouds in Flagstaff, AZ
Chairlift up San Francisco Peaks, AZ
The view
Yeah, it's official.
Going down
I just liked how this looked.
Volcanic rocks
The perspective seems a bit weird here.
Doesn't this look like an advertisement? Ignore my mom and the water bottle...
Crowd enjoys a band opening up for movies outdoors in Flagstaff
Hmm, seems familiar
Day's Inn in Sedona, AZ
More of the view from the Day's Inn
A pretty cool chapel.
The view from the chapel
Very interesting house
Signs by the flowers at the chapel
The side of the chapel
The front of the chapel
New moon under a cloud
Oak Creek, AZ
Swimming!
Rock climbing!
Bright Angel Trail @ Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon
View from the Rim Trail
“Grand” seems fitting...
Ground Squirrel!
If you look very closely, you can see the Colorado river in two places. Hint: it's brown.
Colorado River
A mesa
Rock layers
Sand dunes?
One of the risky things about Antelope Canyon is that rain floods it instantly. There was a sign to the right listing people who died in flash floods there. Luckily, there was no rain in the forecast for the day.
The beginning of Lower Antelope Canyon. It's about a foot to a foot and a half wide here.
Inside the canyon. It's been sculpted by wind carrying sand through the canyon. It's extremely narrow in some places and doesn't get much wider than maybe 6 feet accross.
A brother, for scale.
Lizard!
A copper vein. We had ourselves some illegal copper mining fun.
Hydroelectric dam powerplant turbine
The dam
Turbine with brother for scale
Lees Ferry, AZ by the Vermillion Cliffs
More balancing boulders in Lees Ferry
Horseshoe Bend in the Colorado River
Monument Valley
Moon
Less than halfway through, here's what the insanely bumpy, unpaved road had done to our car. It was even dirtier afterwards. Definitely worth it though!
Blurry like many of the other shots because some were taken in motion while driving along a road that was as close to offroad as you can get while still having definite edges.
How does this happen!???
So many dried trees
Arches National Park
We got caught in a bit of a downpour...
It turns out that Arches National Park is actually a giant lava lamp.
Yin and Yang
The last one had a strangely floppy left ear...
Deer!
Flash flood area... and it started raining...
Bighorn Sheep
Caterpillar
Crazy rainstorm on a winding road that dropped off sharply on both sides.
It's not really visible here, but the rainstorm turned into hazelnut-sized hail that was coming down harder than I've ever seen. A brief discussion about whether hail damage was covered by the renter's insurance ensued.
Llama farm!
Something about this makes me not want to deposit money here.
Bryce Canyon area
Bryce Canyon
A tree where you'd least expect it
Two Bridges
Adorable
This tree has nearly perfectly round leaves. I like that.
Amazing sunset
This sign says it all.
