We have been on the move visiting three more national parks, and with so much travel and activity, I haven’t had time to write about what we’re seeing. Well no more; here is the first of the four parks we are visiting in Winter 2016 in southern California. [We visited the five parks in central and northern California …
It’s November 1st — where has the month of October gone?!? We are currently exploring the American Southwest, specifically the Four Corners area that is Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. During the fall we have had the opportunity to visit two more national parks — Capitol Reef National Park in Utah and Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona — …
Yellowstone National Park is our nation’s oldest, and for many, grandest national park. Established on March 1, 1872, this land was “… set apart as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people….” And enjoy we did — for almost a month! We stayed in three different campgrounds at the …
You drive through the beautiful Idaho countryside near Ketchum, Idaho, and then you are upon it: exposed, black lava fields as far as the eye can see. But as you drive farther into the park, you begin to see how life is reestablishing itself in the form of first, small sprigs of grass and tiny …
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 …
We did not get to see everything that we wanted to see, but what we did see was pretty wonderful. Wildfires just inside the western entrance to the park blocked the path east and kept us from visiting much of the park. Actually, we had planned to stay in the park for four nights until receiving …
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 …
Well here we are again… in an NPS campground with no Internet connectivity and no Verizon signal. I’ve grown accustomed to this situation now as we’ve encountered it before, but it sure is frustrating, especially when I am trying to catch up on the posts from our travels! In order to get this posted, I …
The story of Katmai begins more than one hundred years ago when a volcanic eruption like few others in recorded history took place here on the Alaska Peninsula. While volcanic eruptions were and still are common in Alaska, this one was large enough to attract worldwide attention and a century later it still captures the …
