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We visited Pipestone National Monument today. Though we'd not known about the park, we've known about it's product and a bit about it's significance in Native American culture. The peace pipe is carved from stone found only here. This is sacred land where these...
See Park Video Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is out in the middle of the prairie many miles from any sizable city, in fact the closest town is Harrison, Nebraska 25 miles to the north, a community of less than three hundred people. What was once the Agate...
See Park Video This morning we visited Chimney Rock. It was an iconic landmark on the Overland Trails. It's amazing to gaze on a bit of geology was was a much anticipated site for folks traveling west a hundred and fifty years ago!
See Park Video Rising 4659 feet above sea level, Scotts Bluff was a landmark on the Overland Trail, this huge rock rising out of the prairie. We stopped at the Scotts Bluff National Monument near Gering, Nebraska. At the Visitor Center we were the only visitors! When...
150th Anniv Ft Laramie Treaty Video See Park Video Another opportunity at Fort Laramie is to talk with a costumed interpreter at a covered wagon. We talked with her about the Mormon Migration. Our family connection is to a woman named Charity who left Karen's...
At Fort Laramie we were treated to an interpretive talk about the Mountain Howitzer and it's role, actually it's uselessness in the wide open spaces of Wyoming. But the fascinating thing is that it is the little baby brother of the Twelve Pound Napoleons that were...
We traveled today from Steamboat Springs to Fort Collins along US-40 and CO-14, the Cache la Poudre Scenic Byway. Oh! The scenery! It's unbelievable. We traveled north of Rocky Mountain National Park but the scenery was every bit as beautiful! But now in Fort Collins...
Wow! This has been on Our List for ever so long. We're at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah! It's another of those places where we must come back! This time we arrived just after two busloads of Roads Scholars so it was crazy busy. We took the tram up to the quarry...
Even as we are decamping here in Burlington Campground we are scouting out the best campsites for our next visit. Perhaps it will be 50, just adjacent to where we slept last night. It's got a great tree with a goose pen, meaning it has been hollowed out by a series of...
We scored! Back in 2008 when we were here in The Redwoods we camped in a grove of redwoods in our little tent. We remembered that it was in one of the state parks along The Avenue of the Giants but we couldn't remember which campground. Yesterday we visited three...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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A string of unexpected problems complicated our transition from Southampton to Haarlem but calm problem solving and a sense of adventure led to unpredicted delights and a story for the ages.
A repositioning cruise from New York to Southampton is a most enjoyable way to cross the Atlantic on the first leg of a European adventure.
It was fifty years ago next month that the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy. Today we had the distinct privilege of visiting some of the places important in that offensive which ultimately led the Allied victory in the Second World War.