Julianne and American Goldfinch

Does wanderlust end when you come home?

We drove up the levee along the Sacramento River, not realizing until later that it had been built by Chinese laborers around the turn of the 20th century.

What a glorious year to visit Death Valley. This photo is of Desert Gold carpeting the gravely ground in the lowest elevation of the valley near Badwater.

Julianne and I are carrying on our project of traveling by car in a great circle from Detroit to Seattle.

Who goes to the Grand Canyon and writes a blog about the design of the dining room? Well it is winter: dark, cold. But pretty wonderful here nevertheless.

It started out in the late 1980's and continued into the 1990's as a project to demonstrate how humans could migrate to alien worlds and create their own livable environment.

It's fun catching these little guys in the lens, still the outcomes are partly a matter of luck and circumstance.

Now in New Mexico in the Chihuahua Desert, we find ourselves near a protected petroglyph site dated to 500+ years ago when the area was inhabited by Mogollon people.

We're taking a few months traveling in the South, Southwest, and up the West Coast before at last we get to our home in Seattle. We'll arrive there when good weather does (we hope).

Here we are on American soil again!