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See Park Video Early this morning we returned to Carlsbad Caverns and this time we entered through the Natural Entrance, past the Bat Flight Amphitheater where we remember watching the bat flight at dusk one evening in September 1974. No bats there today though....
This morning in Santa Fe we wakened to snow patched on the ground, snow flurries in the air, and black skies to the north. So of course we headed south - to Carlsbad Caverns National Park, near the town of Carlsbad, New Mexico in the southeastern corner of the state....
Enjoyed the opportunity to join the crowd at Las Chivas, the coffee shop in Eldorado for conversation at the center of the universe. In the afternoon we went in to Santa Fe and had a wonderful meal at Mucho Gusto on Paseo de Peralta, stopped at the yarn shop, browsed...
We enjoyed the shelter of Bill's house while we watched the weather. We saw snow flurries and felt gale force winds. Our of the big picture window we saw tumbleweeds chasing one another across the landscape. Sometimes it was sunny but cold but mostly dark overcast...
We had wanted to spend more time in southwestern Colorado in this area with so much Ancestral Puebloan history but the weather forecast was for snow. We decided to head for Santa Fe sooner than planned. We headed south to Shiprock then across northern New Mexico...
See Park Video The real treat of the day was our visit to Mesa Verde National Park, a World Heritage site. We took the Cliff Palace tour and our guide, Ranger Scott really conveyed a sense of what life was like for the Ancestral Pueblo People here more than six...
See Park Video See Park Video Started the day with a sunrise visit to Arches National Park and loved it even with the gray skies. Love that park! Went to Mass in Moab then had breakfast at the Jailhouse Cafe. Great food. By afternoon thunderstorms had rolled in but we...
Ranger Talk Video See Park Video We spent the early morning in Arches National Park. At the suggestion of a ranger, we hiked out to Landscape Arch and explored a little beyond but not so far as the Double O Arch. On the way into town at midday we saw a cattle drive,...
We took our time leaving the luxury of our room at the Doubletree. From there we headed west across Colorado via I-70. We took a little side trip to Breckenridge to visit the delightful vacation home of friends Martha and Rick. They were not there but not we...
Meet Rocky Mt Rangers Videos Secrets of a National Park Video Left Boulder by way of Canyon Road giving us an opportunity for a short hike to Boulder Falls. Then drove up through Estes Park to the Fall River Visitor’s Center which was closed but the restaurant...
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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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.
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.
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.