June 27, 2021   From Taos we drove to the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, about 12 miles. The scenery was spectacular, as usual. I never ceased t...

  October 18, 2020 We had one more highpoint to summit on this trip: Black Mesa, the highest point in Oklahoma. One of the interesting thing...

  October 16, 2020 Now that we have been to all 50 states, my husband is trying to "fill in the spaces" on the United States map--...

September 14, 2019 Besides capitol buildings, another thing we like to visit in each state is the state high point. Bob has checked of...

My husband's fetishes include visiting state high points.  In 2005 (prior to this blog) we climbed 14,498-foot-tall Mt. Whitney, the h...

In April 2016 we flew to New York City to visit our son, who is a student there. We went a day before he was available so that we could do...

We ended our trip to Arkansas by visiting a series of very eclectic locations. In addition to visiting the fifty states, my husband ha...

I have a son who likes to do this: Temple Crag, Eastern Sierras, California . . . so when I saw this:  . . . all I could think of ...

We left Mobile and drove due east through the Florida panhandle towards Tallahassee, the state capital, in a torrential rain storm. O...

Bob and I had plans to climb to the highest point in Alabama, and we knew we needed to fuel up before leaving Atlanta, so we stopped for l...