“Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as “carving”, “engraving”, or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images. Petroglyphs are found world-wide, and are often (but not always) associated with prehistoric peoples. The word …

There are lots of other caves to explore depending on your interests. We decided to try a couple of caves until we decided that we had enough. This is a challenging cave that we tried. Hercules Leg Cave (1,948 ft/594 m) and Juniper Cave (2,362 ft/720 m) These two caves were connected by the removal …

The first cave that we explored were the easiest one. Here are some points to take note before exploring caves in Lava Beds Don’t Go Alone – Exploring as a group makes caving safer. Stick together and warn other members of your party about hazards and sensitive resources. (Especially low ceilings) If you must go …

Driving further towards the inland, we happened to drove past a unique city. How nice! Q: Where are you from? A: I’m from Weed! Q: Is there a lot of Weed there? Having a great time there, yeah? A: Errr…. It was just a short rest at Weed but we found no Weed there, I …

Mount Shasta (California) March 22, 2008- This was my only road trip in more than a month after my car broke down. I didn’t travel around because of $$ constrain. Maybe it was also some signs to tell me that I had travel enough and should take a break from traveling. Nevertheless, I embarked on …

I had a superbly awesomely great road trip over the last weekend. 18 Feb was President’s Day so I took leave on 15 Feb to make it a four day super long weekend. Initial plan was to travel to Yellowstone National Park with two other friends. However, that road trip didn’t materialize because they have …