Thank you so much! 😊 Hello right back to you! 🤠👋

That sounds like an epic road trip! I checked out your channel, I love your van setup! 🚐 So glad to hear Cody made it to your top places. 🌄 Thanks for sharing!

@@destinationdos Thanks. Glad you liked it. I did it all by myself and I am pretty darn proud. I am not going into post on my channel anymore. Van life is for me. I love it. However, I am not RU-vid material. I guess I enjoy my privacy too much. It was fun to do it for a little while. I like your channel. Safe travels.

Thank you! 😊 You're absolutely right, Buena Vista Peak is a gem! I’ll make sure to include it next time. Appreciate the suggestion and glad you enjoyed the video! 🌄👍

I hear you, the traffic can definitely be a challenge! 🚗 Hopefully, your next visit will still bring some great memories. 🌅😊

That sounds like such a memorable experience! Those cottages really add to the town's charm. I hope you have the chance to revisit one day and relive some of those wonderful memories! 😊🏡🌿

That’s awesome! You’re going to have an amazing time 🌞🏖️. September is a great time to visit!

That's wonderful to hear! Visiting Solvang four times a year shows how special the place is to you. It's amazing that your family has plates displayed in the museum! Thanks for the tip about Birkholm's Bakery and the split pea soup. The Copenhagen Sausage Garden sounds delicious too. Thanks for sharing your experiences and recommendations! 🥐🍽️🌭

You're so welcome! 😊 Glad it was helpful! Hope you have an amazing time exploring. 🌟

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That's awesome! I'm glad the video was helpful. Hope you have an amazing time in Virginia Beach and get to experience all the best spots. Safe travels! 🌊😊

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Cape Lookout is definitely a gem! 🏝️ So many great spots to cover in the OBX! 😄

@@destinationdos Very true...I am from Beaufort so I spent a lot of my younger school days in a boat going from beaufort to Cape lookout and inbetween

So glad to hear you love Virginia Beach! It’s always great to revisit a place that holds special memories. Hope you get to go back soon and enjoy it even more! 😊🏖️

Thank you so much! 😊 Ocean City is such a special place. I'm glad you enjoyed the video! 🌟

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Appreciate your support! 😊

I live there and agree.

Thanks for watching! 🌉 The Bixby Bridge is a great start, and there’s so much to explore even with just one day. Enjoy your adventure with your pup! 🐾

Thank you so much! 😊 I'm glad you enjoyed the video! 🏜️

Thank you for sharing that! It's easy to take the beauty around us for granted when it's right in our backyard. But you're absolutely right, Carmel and the surrounding areas are like a slice of paradise that people travel from all over the world to experience. Maybe your comment will inspire others in Salinas to explore and appreciate the incredible places so close to home. 😊🌍🌊

That’s amazing to hear! I’m so glad you had such a wonderful experience in Eureka Springs. The warm and welcoming community is definitely one of the town’s best qualities. Wishing you all the best as you prepare for this exciting new chapter! 😊🏡🌳

You're welcome! I hope you'll have an incredible time exploring the area. Safe travels and have a wonderful visit! 😊🌊🌟

Definitely safe. Affordable? That’s up to you

@@tykuresa22 I am freelancer with monthly income 2000$ and single. I wonder if I can live comfortably by choosing median house away from the downtown area of big cities. Safety is my priority

@@ghassanjneinaty44212k isn’t enough here. I’d stay further inland.

That’s awesome to hear! I’m glad you enjoyed your visit-Solvang truly is a beautiful and charming place. 😊🌟

Sounds like a great plan! 🏖️ Hope you have an awesome time! 🌊

Thanks so much! 😊 Acadia is such a stunning place to explore. Hope you get to visit soon! 🌲🌊"

@@destinationdos Yes, first week of September. Hoping for great weather.

That's awesome! 🌞 September is a perfect time to visit. Wishing you clear skies and beautiful views! 🌤️🏞️

@@destinationdosThank you!

Trail Dust Town is such a fun spot! 🎯 I’ll definitely consider featuring it in a future video! 🤠 Thank you for the suggestion! 🌟

It really is fascinating how the landscape has transformed over time! Nature sure has a way of surprising us. 🌵💧⏳

I've been researching and writing about the Southwest, in general, and the FOUR Corners region for most of the last 40 years. The events that formed it were not "millions of years ago", but between 3,500 and 4,500 years ago. The critical forces were the same we read of in the Old Testament, sturm and drang, water, tempestuous storms, and inexplicable (especially to peoples with no scientific vocabulary) The Fremont People arrived in central Utah, near the confluence of the Uinta Mountains with the Wasatch Front, about the same time Greeks were picking themselves up, preparing to build the second Golden Age of Greece. The Anasazi emerged, descendants of those earlier travelers, around the time of Jesus. They "disappeared" around the time the Dark Ages were coming to a close, in the 13th Century AD, leaving few traces but fascinating ruins. Where did they go? Not "into the mists of history", as it turned out, but "on the road again". Their story continued, and came full circle, when the people who would become Navajos returned to the American Southwest, in the 15th Century AD. The people who returned were no longer Anasazi, intermarried with other peoples, to become Navajo, and the Puebloans. The landscape of the region shows the effects of massive amounts of water, moving through the area, at speed, sitting, for long, long periods. I believe there was an "inland sea", sitting atop the Four Corners, from north of Helper UT, to south of Pie Town NM, from the San Francisco Peaks, to the Sierra Nacimientos. It formed a body of water that probably ranged between 1,500 to 2,500 feet deep, and remained for nearly three millennia, before gurgling down the Grand Canyon to the distant sea. The water came out of the northeast, above northern Colorado, across the basin of Wyoming. Nine Mile Canyon was created by the water dribbling out of that area, probably more than a century later. I say this because I am reliably informed it would take more than 191 years for Lake Superior to drain, and the amount of water I speak of would dwarf Lake Superior. It would take the better part of three thousand years for the water to drain away, blocked by a lava plug in the western reaches of the Grand Canyon, and by Black Canyon, itself a lava plug. As it crested the Uintas, the water carved out Arches, and the other features of central Utah, before pouring across the Canyonlands plateau, revealing the "steps" of the Grand Staircase, and blowing through Monument Valley so fast, it peeled away the sandstone layers, like a hot knife through butter, pushing the silt southeasterly, down toward the central valley of Mexico. The wall of water would have been pushing whole forests, large boulders, and unimaginable quantities of debris. Whatever had been there, before, was wiped off the face of the Earth. The Fremonts arrived almost 1,500 years after the "flood", descendants of PIE people who'd "emerged on the Russian Steppes, in the 3rd Millennium BC. Some of these people traveled easterly, presumably searching for their lost "homeland", arriving in Alaska around the 17th Century BC, before sea levels rose to drown the Bering Strait. From there, groups began to trek southerly, toward the continental US, slowly making their way into the continental US, skirting the eastern foothills of the Canadian Rockies, leaving numerous "medicine wheels" in their wake. The Fremont People would be the first to see the wonders of southern Utah, still covered with water, at their arrival. Slowly the water receded, at times quicker, but soon replaced by the water still north of the Uinta Mountains, until the water north could not cross the shoulder. The Fremonts moved onto the clifftops, as they appeared, using their isolation defensively, then down onto the cliffsides, as the water fell more dramatically. Eventually, they moved out onto the prairies, when water levels dropped enough, becoming Anasazi, building a trading empire, and those amazing ruins at Chaco, Hovenweep, and Wupatki, among the many others. The water continued to swirl away down the Grand Canyon, eventually revealing the desert region we know, today. When life-giving water became too far away to sustain life, the Anasazi "moved away", in search of greener pastures. By 1200AD, the San Juan and Colorado Rivers were the only water sources left, the area scarred by the passage of water that no longer existed within its boundaries. The desert began to bake, cementing its weird shapes and unusual creations in their modern forms.

Wow, thank you for sharing such an in-depth and fascinating perspective on the history of the Southwest and the Four Corners region! Your knowledge and research bring a whole new layer of understanding to the area’s incredible landscapes and history. It’s amazing to think about the forces that shaped the land and how they tie into human history as well. I appreciate you taking the time to provide this detailed insight-it really adds depth to the conversation about this remarkable region. 🌄📚🤯

​@@destinationdos Thank you for your kind words! I've been researching the topics I write about most of my life, starting very young, playing on "ruins" so old they might have been from another world. I started asking questions about the anomalies that pepper the Southwest, as a young child, often receiving incorrect answers, and all too often, exactly wrong replies. I stumbled aacross a reference to a book that might offer clues, in a Reader's Digest article, in 1976. When I had to spend three months in the hospital, that year, I asked a friend to track down a copy, and set in to read it. I read everything I could find by the author, setting out on the course that would reveal many answers to my questions, over the coming decades. We are told a confused, and confusing, story, about our ancient past, before 700BC. All of a sudden, peoples all over the world started "rebuilding" (or, as history books put it, "setting out to build") civilization. My question, once I began to understand, was "WHY?" The reason is part of what I was writing about, in the response to your comment. The world, OUR world, was "torn apart", leveled, and raised, inundated with massive amounts of water, in places, and drained of water, in others. All of this is "known" to us. The stories make up our "cultural knowledge", the lore of stuff we "know", or assume, the stories of heroes, legends, and mythical figures (many of whom were not mythic, but real), and the story has been concealed, to burnish the Story of God. What kind of God would let millions die? What kind of God would kill His people? These, and worse, happened, again, and again, to our distant ancestors. We are all descendants of the "survivors" of the times I write about, those who lived through the "times that try men's souls".

@@destinationdos I have written close to a thousand pages about the events that shaped the world into the one we know and love, today! I'm looking for a publisher, but I think I want to make a video, because it is difficult to communicate the totality of the events that scarred, and shaped, the world of antiquity, especially to those who do not read well. I need to find a videographer who can do animations, to show the world crumpling, twisting, and shattering. The latter is an artefact of the forces that acted on our planet, in its 1,700-year-long contest of wills with a Big Dumb Rock. The era gave rise to Religion, and inbred the many phobias, irrational fears, and weird behaviors humans exhibit, more than 2,750 years after the last episode. Homer's The Iliad mashes up an earlier Trojan War his family had sung about for generations, with one he witnessed, four hundred years later. The "story" told by the 15,693 lines of dactylic hexameter (easily one of the hardest forms of poetry) is one that stretches the imagination, and challenges belief, but the saga was intensely popular, outliving the poet by almost 500 years, before it was written down! The work's longevity suggests its importance, to me, more than anything. People of the times recognized the inherent truths Homer was telling, supported by other stories, myths, and legends then popular (and still, for the most part, in circulation, today). These "myths", "legends", and "Bible stories" invest our literature, and film/TV libraries, more than 3,000 years later. We draw on cultural influences when we create, and those "influences" were indelibly etched into the cumulative human soul. There are messages in the stories from the ancient past, left for modern audiences, as significant as they were, all those many centuries ago! According to a NASA report released a year ago, "rogue planets" (aka "Big Dumb Rocks") outnumber stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, meaning there is a real possibility the scenario could be repeated, at some point in the future. Maybe that was why the ancients made a point to pass on the tales of unbelievable, unimaginable, and/or highly improbable events and occurrences. The stories that made their way across the thousands of years, still intrigue people of today.