Experiences labelled with 'united states'
The slight dry breeze blowing in from the open car window offered some relief, as the intensely hot Arizona sun beamed down on the car. As I approached the entrance to the Painted Desert, the rhythmic bumping under my tires from the cracks in the road only echoed the isolation of highway, not a single other car in sight. All around barren mountains emerge as flaming dunes, with multicolored strata creating a rainbow of orange, brown, red and purple hues. The Painted Desert stretches over 160 miles, and spans from the Grand Canyon National Park through to the Petrified Forest National Park. Designed over hundreds of years by natural conditions such as volcanoes, sea waters, wind, rain and earthquakes, the unique composition of stratified minerals ...
If you're only able to visit a single U.S. national park, then Yellowstone should be your choice. Spanning several states, this U.S. park is the oldest in the country, opening in 1872. Yellowstone is well known for its geysers and hot springs. While Old Faithful often takes the spotlight regarding the park's geysers, the Grand Prismatic Spring is the park's most notorious hot spring, located along the Midwest Geyser Basin near the Firehole River. Prismatic Spring, in Wyoming, is the largest spring in the U.S., and third largest in the world. Only New Zealand has hot springs that are larger. It's located in the Midwest Geyser Basin, which oddly enough is smaller than many of Yellowstone's other basins. The spring is 300 fee in diameter, ...
Welcome to Detroit's Motown, where you can't mention the one without the other. The term "Motown" originates from the record label, which was started in Detroit in 1960. Those first records developed in the small studio of Motown, beginning what has become one of the most recognizable music genres in the world. Fifty years later, and Detroit still stands as the R&B capital of the world. While the Motown Record Label no longer calls Detroit home, its history and sounds can still be felt throughout the Motor City. This is most evidenced by the Motown Museum in Detroit, affectionately referred to as "Hitsville U.S.A.” The Motown Museum isn't your typical grandiose museum, and you could easily drive right by it. Formerly a photographers' studio, the ...
