more cool destinations - but is this a good thing?

Is anyone else getting scared by all these new places in distant lands. Yes, distant. They may be only half a state away--but out west states are BIG. Rhode Island wannabees need not apply kind'o'thin. Not that we shouldn't post all the cool things we can find - it just worries me, thats all. BTW, Mesa Verde (which as far as I know is the furthest destination from LV that has been decided on for sure is a 600 mile hike (or car ride if you city-slickers can't handle it). Not as bad as some of our trips for sure (I do seem to remember a drive to our northern brothers which was roughly 6,903,765,746 miles long.) but we do have to keep all this in mind.