Most of us aren't operating on a NASA budget so the Craters of the Moon may seem too remote but there are more right here in America at the Craters of the Moon National Park.
This may seem like pointless bouncing relative to suggestions from Lotho regarding Utah and the idea of walking among the Giant Sequoias in California. However, this has been a dream target destination for years, most particularly for shooting a music video but it's cool just for the looking too.
This looks more like Mars than the Moon but it's a remarkable landscape nevertheless.
Although this is a dream date, there are some significant problems with doing it. The first is the park is about a third of the way up into the state of Idaho and I make the distance from DFW at 1350 miles. Even at five hundred miles per day, that's three days up and three days back just for road time.
Five hundred miles per day is a punishing speed and it's worthless for the seeing in the same in Europe as US. It makes no difference if you're on the Interstate or the Autoroute when you drive at well over 100 kph per hour (i.e. 60 mph), you're not going to see much of anything except for catching glimpses of things you probably won't turn back around to visit.
You can run a thousand miles a day if you want to be brutal but now your only purpose is to make miles and at that speed you could drive through Disneyland without seeing a single Mouse.
Note: that's just a screen grab and not an active map
The second major problem is how much it will clockle your cockles to walk around in a lava field, particularly when we see there are fewer trees than the average suburban landscape so, even though it's in Idaho, it's likely to be extremely hot.
Note: suburbia is where they cut down all the trees and then name the streets after them. Unknown author.
There's probably not a high likelihood of enthusiasm for this one since it's really not a location with high historical significance except from a geological standpoint. It's probably not a big hit with the little whippers either since the kozmik aspect of a wasteland is not likely to be compelling to the Fairy Princess.
Gramps, can we go to Yellowstone to look at bears instead?
Fair enough, kid. I never saw a bear either. You do know bears really like to eat hikers, tho, yes?
(Ed: only the dumb ones. It's evolution in action.)
From the reports we have seen, that does seem to be true but, geez, getting 'et by a bear is just a wee bit harsh.
This may seem like pointless bouncing relative to suggestions from Lotho regarding Utah and the idea of walking among the Giant Sequoias in California. However, this has been a dream target destination for years, most particularly for shooting a music video but it's cool just for the looking too.
This looks more like Mars than the Moon but it's a remarkable landscape nevertheless.
Although this is a dream date, there are some significant problems with doing it. The first is the park is about a third of the way up into the state of Idaho and I make the distance from DFW at 1350 miles. Even at five hundred miles per day, that's three days up and three days back just for road time.
Five hundred miles per day is a punishing speed and it's worthless for the seeing in the same in Europe as US. It makes no difference if you're on the Interstate or the Autoroute when you drive at well over 100 kph per hour (i.e. 60 mph), you're not going to see much of anything except for catching glimpses of things you probably won't turn back around to visit.
You can run a thousand miles a day if you want to be brutal but now your only purpose is to make miles and at that speed you could drive through Disneyland without seeing a single Mouse.
The second major problem is how much it will clockle your cockles to walk around in a lava field, particularly when we see there are fewer trees than the average suburban landscape so, even though it's in Idaho, it's likely to be extremely hot.
Note: suburbia is where they cut down all the trees and then name the streets after them. Unknown author.
There's probably not a high likelihood of enthusiasm for this one since it's really not a location with high historical significance except from a geological standpoint. It's probably not a big hit with the little whippers either since the kozmik aspect of a wasteland is not likely to be compelling to the Fairy Princess.
Gramps, can we go to Yellowstone to look at bears instead?
Fair enough, kid. I never saw a bear either. You do know bears really like to eat hikers, tho, yes?
(Ed: only the dumb ones. It's evolution in action.)
From the reports we have seen, that does seem to be true but, geez, getting 'et by a bear is just a wee bit harsh.
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