November is a perfect time for hiking in Tucson

Hoar-frosted lines on the long, glorious drive down the I-15 in Montana

Never too soon to promote Christmas: Willard Bay State Park north of Salt Lake City

Sandwiches for three at Grove Market in Salt Lake City

Trendy Welcome Diner in Tucson, Arizona

Feathery cacti at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Wild turkeys in southeast Arizona

Hole in the U.S.-Mexico fence near Montezuma Pass in southeast Arizona

Sign in Bisbee, Arizona around mid-term elections

Wintering sandhill cranes at Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area, northeast of Bisbee, Arizona

Majestic Gadsen Hotel in the border town of Douglas, Arizona

Superb, eroded volcanic rock pinnacles in Chiricahua National Monument in southeast Arizona

My first sighting of a coatimundi in Chiricahua National Monument: Three feet from the car window; never paid attention

Razor-wire fence surrounding U.S. Border Patrol compound, near Willcox, Arizona

Can’t visit Tucson without a trip to Ruiz’s for a Sonoran hot dog

Early-morning red rock driving near Page, Arizona

Power plant near Page, Arizona at dawn

“Can I park your yacht for you, sir?”

The Maverick gas station experience in Fillmore, Utah

Swans along Highway 91 in southern Idaho

Hoar frost above hot spring along Highway 91

The incomparable Carmen making fresh tacos in Hamer, Idaho

Dead great horned owl at a rest stop along the I-15 in central Montana