We don’t care for crowds so there was a time we avoided National Parks. But we started thinking differently and found that we could find complete solitude in the most popular Parks. It does take a bit of effort but not near as much as we originally thought. It was then we began to make some stunning discoveries. Off trail if allowed is the way to proceed into another dimension. Our favorite National Park allows off trail travel throughout but everyone save very, very few stick right on the trails.

Europeans are crazy about the southwest and really have a love of exploration here. Another valuable feature of the iPhone is the translator app where you can have them speak into the mic and the app speaks the translation back and forth. I’ve met Germans more than once in some of the most out of the way places. Those folks are extremely adventurous.