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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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 After a great time in PEI, it was time to move on to New Brunswick to experience the up to 50 foot tidal shifts in the Bay of Fundy. While he had arrived on PEI from Nova Scotia, we left PEI on the Confederation Bridge,…
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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 Prince Edward Island (PEI) is always a place I wanted to visit. My parents took me as far as New Brunswick once, but we never crossed the ferry from there (now a bridge). I also recently heard that mu grandmother had her honeymoon there. This…
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