Not Another Travel Guide: High Octane: California - Nevada - Utah - Arizona

By Bob Campbell

Not Another Travel Guide: High Octane -
Eight Days, Seven Nights, Four Thousand Miles -
CA-NV-UT-AZ - A Caffeinated Guide to California - Nevada - Utah - Arizona.
NATG: CaNvUtAz (possibly pronounced Can-vu-taz) is a wonderful, haul-butt overview of the desert Southwest. From the Golden Gate Bridge to the amazing Intaglios of Blythe, CA; Grand Canyon to Bisbee, AZ; Zion (UT) to Las Vegas, NV; and finally back through Yosemite and California to head home through Oregon before stopping again in Washington.
Prepare yourself for honest opinions, side trips, stumbles, bad weather, and a numb butt, because NATG: CaNvUtAz has all those and more. Or feel free to ignore the text and just enjoy the pictures. Or for the sadist, just read the text and ignore the pictures (author not responsible for self-inflicted injuries).
Not every vacation has to be a marathon at each location to see every last detail the travel guides tell you is a "Must See!" Because honestly? Sometimes you just need to see what all is out there, sampling a little in each spot, possibly even skipping some of the trays offered on the buffet line. Why waste your time at the salad bar when wonderful fried food is calling your name - and everyone knows you only have so much space to pack it all in. Lettuce? Seriously? Ha! Fried shrimp, chicken, fish, scallops and the dessert island? Now we're talking.

You don't have to be polite on every trip and hit every 'eleventh wonder of the world,' you're allowed to just go. I give you my permission - as if you needed it.
And this travel guide is an example of what you can see in just over a week.
So what are you waiting for - click 'buy' and see what you might be missing. (Scientific surveys have shown deeply intelligent and strong willed individuals prefer Not Another Travel Guides to all other forms of solicitous travel propaganda. Who else would tell you the Golden Gate Bridge is highly over-rated, but you can still avoid the traffic and parking problems by just paying your bridge toll on-line? See? You're smart enough to know this now and you haven't even finished the book description.)
Save your bottom the agony and see if this trip is for you before you invest more than a dollar and your time traveling the gauntlet of CaNvUtAz.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bob Campbell
• Release date: May 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310813207

Bob Campbell

The short of it: over-educated, unemployed, and annoying with a camera. Quite possibly a dangerous combination.The long of it:I've been snapping pictures for over a quarter-of-a-century on equipment ranging from a Pentax k1000 to Canon SX700hs - but nothing fancier. In fact, after they retired my Kodachrome 64 film, I hung up the 'real cameras' and settled for "digital pocket snappers." It seems ninety percent of the challenge to taking pictures is to remember your camera (would seem obvious, wouldn't it? But look around at the folks with large, fancy cameras - no wonder they claim the phone-based lens will be the death of real photography). So I do my part and pack it almost everywhere.I was a latecomer to photography, though, so I had time to grow up in many different parts of the country with my formative stage in the South, but junior high and onward in the Pacific Northwest. The last set of initials after my name tacked on by the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine - making the 'highest degree attained' line of the survey read Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.I still live in the state of Washington with my lovely wife of over two decades who continues to be an invaluable accomplice. For any hazard I manage to avoid, our son does his best to ensure we'll see an early grave.Having spent a little time teaching, I've grown to miss a captive audience to inflict my photography upon, so thank you Smashwords for providing me a forum for dispersing my imagery pain to be loosed upon the world.

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Not Another Travel Guide: High Octane

Eight Days, Seven Nights, Four Thousand Miles

CA-NV-UT-AZ - A Caffeinated Guide to

California - Nevada - Utah - Arizona

Bob Campbell

Copyright 2015 C. Robert Campbell

Photography & Images Copyright 2015 Bob Campbell

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A huge thanks to my wonderful wife of many years, who not only tolerates my camera and I, but sometimes contributes to my shutter-delinquency. I love you, Cheryl.

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:Table of Contents:

Introduction: Screw the Salad Bar at the All-You-Can-Eat Buffet

Morning Has Broken - WA-OR-CA

San Francisco - Holy Crap! Where do you park?

California, Here I Go - L.A. back to Reality

Blythe, CA - Seriously

Arizona

Grand Canyon

Zion

Utah - Arizona - Nevada - Don't Blink

Vegas, Baby

Desert Storm - Thanks, Cali, that was a new windshield

Yosemite

Hoofing it Home

Index of Images

Appendix - Travelogue

Other Titles Available

Author Bio and Contact Information

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Introduction

Sometimes you just have to go... and keep going.

Not every vacation has to be a marathon at each location to see every last detail the travel guides tell you is a Must See! Because honestly? Sometimes you just need to see what the fuss is about, merely sampling a little in each spot, possibly even skipping some of the options offered on the buffet line. Why waste your time at the salad bar when wonderful fried food is calling your name - and everyone knows you only have so much space to pack it all in. Lettuce? Seriously? Ha! Fried shrimp, chicken, fish, scallops and the