Colleen Black Semelka sent in this shot: 'This picture is of Jess Dupuis taking the leap in Joshua Tree National Park. We share a ceramic studio together. Last month we took a mentor/student trip to California looking for graduate schools for Jess. We spent a few days in the high Mojave Desert rock hopping.'

Send us a few images from your latest trip and we'll share them with our readers here and on our Web site. E-mail images to dhart@nando.com. Be sure to tell us what they show and there they were taken. You can see a gallery of On Vacation photos under the Multimedia dropdown tab on www.chapelhillnews.com.