On a busy travel day, it’s as Ferris Bueller says: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” But between jam-packed itineraries, bus stations, airport gates, bustling cities, long hikes, and more, it can be hard to find the…
Las Cruces can fly under the radar sometimes, but it’s a beautiful place well deserving of your travel time, whether it’s a quick weekend destination or a stop on a longer road trip. Tucked in the scenic Mesilla Valley and bounded by the impressive Organ Mountains, Las Cruces offers great…
Tourist spots, particularly in the US, often have a lot going on: flashy sights, fine dining, entertainment, shops, the works. But what about Bodie? This California ghost town has no restaurants, no gas station, no reenactments or stage shows. The only restrooms in the park are outhouses, with flush toilets…
You can’t tell what it is from the road. Driving through a seemingly endless stretch of desert scrubland with distant purple mountains filling in the boundaries of the horizon, you notice the protective roof structure first. It looks like a UFO hovering over the desert. There’s something misshapen beneath it,…
“Anytime you want to know what it feels like to go to another planet,” says Dennis Sullivan, President of the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association, “you go to Bonneville Salt Flats.”2 He isn’t wrong. Stepping onto the 30,000-acre expanse of salt crust on the western edge of the Great Salt…