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 …
While none of these places was on our list of national park units we had planned to see, our re-route to southern Idaho for several days to escape the wildfires north and west allowed us time in each of the following three places: Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument Hagerman, Idaho It’s one thing to see movies …
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, was the first American expedition to explore the northwestern lands of the vast territory the United States purchased from France in 1803. U.S. President Thomas Jefferson was keen to explore and map this newly-acquired territory known as the Louisiana Purchase, for it doubled …
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 …
After nearly two weeks with our friends in San Antonio, we said ‘goodbye’ to the metro mix and headed west on I-10 for 300 miles or so, then turned left and headed south another 100 miles. That was last Tuesday, and that trip brought us to the middle of nowhere outside of Big Bend National Park, right on …
For thousands of years, the land we call Texas today was home to Native American Indians. A gigantic field of tall grasses, the Tejas prairie offered no apparent riches, but Spain was intent on claiming this vast land to deter the French from colonizing here. El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail A …
I mentioned in a previous post that we visited a couple more National Park Units while in New Orleans. We knew about one of them; the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, located in The French Quarter, which recognizes and celebrates the uniqueness of the musical style that was born here. But we didn’t know a second …
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And the lucky winner is nephew Kyle – my sister’s oldest son. He’s the one who took us up on our offer in a previous post to come join us down in New Orleans this weekend and enjoy the sunshine – a very nice break from the cold we’d been in the middle of for …
On April 9, 1865, a dignified meeting of two military commanders in the rural central Virginia village of Appomattox Court House symbolically ended the American Civil War. At the home of Wilmer & Virginia McLean, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, overall commander of the Union …
