The posts we are sharing here on our travel blog are on a delay with our current location; in other words, we’re behind with posting about our adventures once again! I’m writing this from Flagstaff where tomorrow we pick up Claire & Kyle from the airport to commence our rafting trip down the Colorado River …
Ever since returning from our short “vacation from our vacation” in L.A. to see Garrison Keillor’s last show, we have been turning it up on national park and park unit visits. We are taking advantage of the nice summer weather by spending the better part of July in the north central part of the U.S., a.k.a. …
#48 – Iowa. #49 – Nebraska. We have now visited 49 of the 50 states on our Out There journey! Our last one will be North Dakota which we have slated to visit in July, but let me back up and tell you how we came to visit the Hawkeye and Cornhusker states and what …
We are on a tear — ten national park units in nine days! We’ve seen so many wonderful park units on our drive from Salt Lake City to Chicago!! We were very excited to travel through Colorado where we visited the Colorado Monument, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Curecanti National Recreation Area, Old Bent’s …
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This is a map we have hanging up inside Charley, our RV. It shows all of the national park units, and the pink highlights show which ones we’ve been to. Can you tell what area of the country we haven’t visited yet? Well that’s about to change as we make our way back to the …
As we look to wind up our two-turned-into-two-and-a-half-year road trip in October of this year, we are now paying more attention to routes, remaining national parks (16 at the time of this post), missing states (five) and figuring out how to efficiently get to all of our remaining sites before turning Charley back to the Midwest …
In his 1992 Democratic National Convention speech, William Jefferson Clinton ended where it all began for him — in a place called Hope. Arkansas, that is. He was born William Jefferson Blythe, III, in 1946. His father died before he was born, forcing his mother to go back to school to support them. While she was in nursing school in …
After nearly two months of holidays, family visits, Fred’s Toura Obscura and Laura’s trip to Europe, we are now back in the saddle of visiting national park units once again. We have tallied up three more park units in the new year, all of them in Arkansas, and really enjoyed all that we saw, did, …
The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands. Sir Richard Burton On December 3, 2015, Laura and I embarked on a trip, albeit to different destinations. Laura was heading to Amsterdam to meet up with our niece who was studying abroad in Grenada, Spain, and who was able to …
