Brett Gross Photography

I just realized that I apparently never posted this. At least I can’t find it…
Anyhow, using my Garmin eTrex HCx to navigate our way to and back from The Wave, I was able to use the excellent HoudahGeo to geocode my images. I then used some of those images to build a photographic journal of [...]

Well, out trip into Arizona’s famous sandstone formation ‘The Wave’ is now safely in the past. We have made it out to Arizona, back into the Coyote Buttes wilderness and eventually back to Pennsylvania safe and sound.
Here are my thoughts on hiking The Wave.

We went with Antelope Canyon Tours and took their photographer’s package. If you are considering a visit to Antelope Canyon (in Page, AZ) then I heartily encourage you to do the same. Our guide, Rosie, was great!

On our recent trip to the American Southwest I lost data from a memory card. After importing a card into Aperture, I thoughtlessly erased the card in my camera before noticing Aperture gave an alert that it didn’t successfully import all of the images.
Oops.
The photos were gone as far as Finder could tell, [...]

We tend to eat when we’re on the road. Not more than usual (often the opposite) but we do still need to eat. Usually we can manage to stay in a hotel/motel that offers a complimentary continental breakfast (although the super-excellent Hampton Inn chain does complimentary hot breakfast!) but that leaves 2 meals.
When I [...]

A little geography lesson for today courtesy of several Wikipedia pages and Gina:
Mesas and buttes are pretty much just different names for very similar things. Both have steep sides and flat tops. Geographers tend to differentiate between the two based on a ratio of top size to height: “a mesa has a top that is [...]

We were supposed to spend the night in Albuquerque and roll on the following day. After seeing how close Petroglyph National Monument was we decided to get some stamps and see some rock art.
Good idea.

Great place to see some very cool petroglyphs (given the name, you would hope so!), but beware of the [...]

The trip from Pennsylvania to Arizona took us many, many, many hours and included 3 storms. Why can’t we get good weather on the road?
Oklahoma was a new state for us, and we aren’t in any hurry to go back. Everything was going so well until we ended on the toll road that bypasses Oklahoma [...]

Well, we’re just over a week away from our departure for what will hopefully be the Southwest trip of a lifetime. After we’re done in the Wave on Tuesday we’ve got a tour of Antelope Canyon on Wednesday and then we’re off to camp in the Grand Canyon. We’ll then go up and see Monument [...]

The time has come to retire my old Garmin GPS V. I came to this conclusion mostly due to its recent tendency to lock up completely, but the allure of new gadgetry is always hard to ignore. The replacement unit will be a Garmin eTrex Legend HCx. Apparently the ‘HCx’ means High-sensitivity Color xtra [...]