We’ve gone from temperatures in the high 80s and needing air conditioning for the past several days in Kanab, Utah, (elevation: 4,970) to waking up this morning to a temperature in the low 40s and needing to turn on our furnace again — what a difference a few thousand feet make! We are now in …
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It’s official — we are in love with Vermont!!! We love visiting Pam & Stan, our friends with the beautiful home on top of a mountain where the views are serenely spectacular! We love their friends whom we’ve gotten to know through various functions including dinner parties, kayaking afternoons on the town lake, a turkey …
Just after sunrise one morning while visiting Petrified Forest National Park, I was out shooting the beautiful, colored mounds in the Blue Mesa area of the park. Layers of blue, purple, white and gray were enhanced by the early morning light. I decided to hike down into what is called the badland area on a …
September 1-8 — We had not expected to come here at this time, but given the hazardous air quality that continued to permeate northern Montana skies, we decided to skip visiting Glacier National Park for now, and opted, instead, to come down to Wyoming to visit Grand Teton National Park. Grand Teton NP is just …
The locals refer to Mt. Rainier as “The Mountain,” and at a little over 14,400′ it is ever-present in the park. It is dramatic in profile and appearance with some 25 glaciers bleeding down its sides with a snow-capped summit. During our six days in the area we drove to different areas of the park …
We’ve actually been here for nearly a week, but as we figured, we would be challenged with Internet connectivity in some of our more remote locations. Well, we started out in one such place — Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve — but boy! were there other things to do besides write posts and work …
Olympic National Park is one of the last unspoiled and untamed places in the United States. Its landscape of rugged peaks, steep cliffs, dense forests, and wild rivers made it difficult to navigate and settle back when the European Americans were first on the scene here in the late 1800s, although Native American hunter-gatherer tribes had lived …
Olympic NP had it all: lush vegetation, beautiful wildflowers, soaring mountains, misty beaches and majestic wildlife. Here are a few of the many images that I captured over our eight-day stay in the park. If you click on a photo, you can see a larger version of it. You can also use the arrows at …
Oregon is a wonderful state! We’ve known this since our first trip here six years ago when we flew out to Portland and then drove through the Willamette Valley (Oregon wine country) over to the coast to Yachats to attend girlfriend Chris’s wedding. Incidentally, that was our first vacation together [August 2009; we had been dating for four …
