After leaving Yellowstone National Park, we headed due south to the Jackson Hole area and Grand Teton National Park. We ended up staying in Victor, a very nice small town just across the border into Idaho and only a few miles outside of Jackson. Fun Fact about Idaho - it is a completely made up name. The Teton Valley area was truly beautiful everywhere we looked, and we just loved it. Our airbnb condo was in a large, mostly new construction community that was pretty and had

Old Faithful - our first stop in Yellowstone National Park, natch. Yellowstone is so different from other national parks, in a variety of ways. First, it’s the original US National Park, established March 1, 1872 by President Ulysses S. Grant. It’s also the second largest national park in the contiguous 48 states - only Death Valley and a handful of Alaskan national parks are larger. Last, at least from the perspective of parks we’ve visited, the area has been and still is

Craig vs Wall Street - a slot canyon in Bryce Canyon National Park The Utah National Parks have been on our list for this road tripping lifestyle almost from the beginning. Craig had never visited the parks, and I have not been to any since I went to Bryce/Arches on a family road trip when I was a young teenager. This spring seemed like the perfect time - we were already on the West Coast and starting the Utah road trip in early May meant we were able to see half the parks

The Amphitheater - we got up close and personal with a lot of it. [This post is part of the Utah Ultimate National Parkness series - see the main post for additional background.] You can see 80-90% of the park in the above single photo - as I mentioned in the main post, it is the smallest of the Utah National Parks and has the highest elevation. And, it’s not really a canyon - the park is actually the eastern edge of a really high, enormous plateau (the eastern edge of the P