Park Service Video Series Spent the day in the western side of the park, the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. The falls are spectacular! We hiked "Uncle" Tom's trail from the top of the canyon to the bottom of the 308 foot Lower Falls. The hike down was pretty easy but...
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Yellowstone Day Three
Tuesday dawned bright and clear! We set out in search of more Yellowstone adventures. The Fountain Paint Pots was spectacular. We watched Old Faithful erupt twice. The second time we learned firsthand that you should not sit downwind from it unless you want to be...
Yellowstone Day Two
Spent the day walking boardwalks through all sorts of geothermal phenomena. Nothing like walking around on top of one of the world's most enormous volcanoes! Also saw lots of wildlife...elk, bison, an eagle, and more. Made the mistake of arriving at Canyon Village...
Yellowstone Day One
Started the day with Mass at St William in Gardiner, Montana, then drove through the Roosevelt Gate at the northern entrance to Yellowstone National Park. We were greeted almost immediately with two herd of elk near the Mammoth Hot Springs Lodge. At one point the two...
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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Wicked The Musical
Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
Caligula at Strawberry Hill
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.