When we started planning our return visit to Alaska, we knew that in addition to visiting our final two national parks up there we also had to trek to Barrow, Alaska. Why? Because our visit to the previous “northernmost city” in Minnesota [see Northwest Angle post] had an asterisks behind it — it was only the northernmost city …
The True Northernmost Extreme Point: Barrow, Alaska Read More »
As many of our friends know, we love the CBS News Sunday Morning show. Following the trumpet fanfare and our first glimpse of the sunshine logo that changes throughout the broadcast we are treated each week with smart segments on a variety of topics, mostly focused on the performing arts. Historical look-backs, interviews, editorials, serious issues or …
We spent nearly a month here this past week! That’s an old joke, I know, but it is rather fitting in this circumstance. Actually Death Valley National Park isn’t such a bad place to spend a week, but I’ll confess Fred was a lot more into it than I was. The name gives it a bad …
When I was in Alaska with my nephew Kyle nine years ago, I vowed to come back someday and go to Homer. Don’t ask me why… I hadn’t known anything about this little town at the time, nor did I know what drew me to it. All I knew was that I had to visit Homer. So …
With our hike out to Cape Alava in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington on Sunday afternoon we’ve now made it to all four Extreme Points in the contiguous United States. You may recall from my previous post [Traveling to the Extreme Points of the U.S.] that as we’re traveling to all 59 of our U.S. national …
Westernmost Extreme Point: Cape Alava, Washington Read More »
Pecos NHP preserves the site of an ancestral pueblo that became a thriving cultural and trade center in the 1400s. Then in the 1600s, Spanish missionaries arrived and established a mission church at the pueblo. As is par for the course at these wonderful National Park Service park units, the introductory movie and exhibits in …
September 18 – Three down, one to go! With today’s visit to the easternmost point in the United States, we now only have to visit the westernmost point and we will have ticked all four ‘Extreme Points in the Contiguous U.S.’ boxes! I’ve posted about our prior Extreme Points visits – South: Key West and North: …
Easternmost Extreme Point: West Quoddy Head, Maine Read More »
If you look at a map of Minnesota, you’ll see a nub that sticks out at the top of the state. Most of this is water (Lake of the Woods) but in the upper left hand corner of that nub is a 30-square-mile land mass that is about 20 miles north of the state of Minnesota …
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Today we got the brilliant idea that we were going to travel to all four “Extreme Points” of the United States while we’re Out There on our two-year road-trip. We got the idea because we are in Key West, and we got our photo taken next to the buoy marking the southernmost point in the …
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