October 2022 In the summer of 2022, our son moved from Utah to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to take a job as a risk assessment arborist fo...

  February 18, 2023 Ocho Rios (Spanish for "eight rivers") is a town on the north Jamaican coast. Many believe Christopher Columbu...

July 27, 2021 When we travel in the United States, I am always surprised by how many truly incredible places there are that I have never hea...

  March 25, 2021 On Thursday morning at about 4:15 AM I awoke to some loud banging that I thought was Bob trying to open the window.  When I...

  March 22, 2021 Bob wanted to get up early (definitely earlier than I  wanted to get up) to visit the I-20 Wildlife Preserve. I decided to ...

March 21, 2021 I took a picture of this quote when we visited the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum because I am a Georgia O'Keeffe fan...

March 19, 2021   Not far from Palo Duro Canyon is another state park, Caprock Canyons, which was established in 1982. It is 15,314 acres, ju...

  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...

  August 9-10, 2020 After a few days in Redwood National and State Parks, our plan was to spend the night in Fortuna and then head south to ...

August 9, 2020 Like an expensive restaurant, the Tall Trees Trail requires advance reservations. Only 50 people are allowed on the 4-mile ro...

  August 8, 2020 After a good night's sleep, we left Redding and drove northwest towards the coast, passing through small towns like Wil...