Tips4theTrip: Wit. Wisdom. West. World.

Because pandas have unusually inefficient digestive systems, they eat enormous amounts of bamboo, and eliminate enormous amounts, too. Photo shot in 2013.

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park. Photo taken in July 2015.

Faneuil Hall, Boston. Photo shot in July 2015.

Lake George, N.Y. Photo taken in July 2015.

Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Photo shot in July 2015.

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

Somewhere over Arizona. Photo shot in July 2015.

Yellowstone National Park. Photo shot in July 2015.

Providence, R.I. Photo shot in July 2015.

Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley National Park.

Wizard Island, Crater Lake, Oregon. Photo shot in May 2015.

A lone biker pedals up Avenue of the Giants, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, near Myers Flat.

Late-afternoon sunbeams on San Francisco Street highlight the texture of downtown Santa Fe’s adobe-style architecture.

Surfboard House, a B&B in Hanalei, Kauai.

This is the ceiling of the 16th century Museo Ex Convento and Parroquia Nuestra Senora de la Natividad, Tepoztlan, Mexico.

You can tell the locals in Monument Valley -- they’re the ones hauling hay and water for their animals.

This is Mt. Rundle, as seen from Vermilion Lakes, Banff National Park. The photo was shot early on Nov. 18, 2014.

Low tide, San Felipe, Baja California.

Flamingo, San Diego Zoo.

The view from the Encore Hotel, 2008, in Las Vegas.

Portland’s Ace Hotel, shown here in 2013, opened in 2007.