This is part of a series called 40th Anniversary Roadtrip While we had a great night in Las Vegas, we were anxious to get on with the main part of our trip — visiting Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks. It’s actually only about a 2 hour drive to Death Valley, so even leaving…
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This is part of a series called 40th Anniversary Roadtrip After celebrating Thanksgiving in Seattle, and before heading for our winter retreat in Mexico, we decided to do a short road trip. This was really the beginning of a longer celebration of our 40th wedding anniversary. The plan was to visit Death Valley and Joshua…
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This is part of a series called National Park/Monument Slam 2018 Since I had to wait two weeks for my post-surgery checkup, we decided to work our way slowly, taking in two last national parks (Capitol Reef in UT and Great Basin in NV). Due to my incapacitated arm, Deb had to do all the…
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This is part of a series called National Park/Monument Slam 2018 After surgery was scheduled, we had basically a week to kill. Luckily, we were staying with friends in Breckenridge, CO (which would also the comfortable place I would recover post-surgery). But a week was too long to sit around. Consequently, we slightly modified our…
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This is part of a series called National Park/Monument Slam 2018 The drive from Kemmerer, WY to Grand Junction, CO is a beautiful, windy two lane road that takes you through some beautiful scenery and some pretty exciting mountain passes. Our destination was Colorado National Monument. I hadn’t been there since I was in college…
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This is part of a series called National Park/Monument Slam 2018 After a long drive from Craters of the Moon, we found ourselves in Kemmerer, WY, population 2600. At one time, it was a very large coal producer and, in fact, the first J.C. Penney was started there as a company store. And it is…
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This is part of a series called National Park/Monument Slam 2018 We spent a few days at this national monument. Initially, we thought this would be a “drive by,” but this really turned out to be an amazing place. If you’ve spent time on the Big Island then sure, you’ve seen lava and volcanos. But…
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This is part of a series called National Park/Monument Slam 2018 So, it’s time for our annual National Park/Monument Slam, this time focusing on the park units we had missed in ID, WY, CO, and beyond. Our trip started out with a need to get a few things on the rig fixed. Consequently, we spent…
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After just returning home from the East Coast, we were saddened to learn of the death of a close relative and so we returned to New England. Following a meaningful sendoff, we decided to spend some time visiting some regional National Park units. Given the closeness to the 4th of July, we chose to visit…
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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 The last part of our Eastern Canada swing was in southern Nova Scotia, an area that has both impacted and been impacted by history, generally played out by the four groups who lived there over time — the indigenous Mi’kMaw people; the French; the Acadians…
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