When people I know talk about Glacier National Park they describe it as the Holy Grail of US National Parks and a supposed hiker’s paradise! Glacier was established in 1910 and still contains over 25 active glaciers. It is…
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Most people enter Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park at the east entrance and we did so in 2021 (post linked here). This year we entered from the west end. This nearly forgotten side of the park had few visitors,…
As we noted in the blog during our first trip to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Colorado (that post linked here), this canyon is underrated. From Telluride. we were headed to the suburbs of Denver to see friends and family so we decided to…
From the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge near Indiahoma, Oklahoma we stopped for a few day in Great Plains State Park, which was our last major stop in Oklahoma. This park is nestled on the other side of the Wichita…
One of our objectives in travelling the US is to look for good places to retire. We love the San Francisco Bay Area but the housing costs and traffic are not ideal for retirement, particularly not early retirement. We…
If I join a band, I may name it “Two Days in Little Rock“…but as usual that comment has very little to do with this post. Although Little Rock is the largest city in Arkansas, it’s home to only…
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about touring the eastern U.S., it is that it’s the setting of a tumultuous past. The many skirmishes and change of control in different areas between the Spanish, the French, and the English,…
A reader board said that the semi tropical scenery of Ocala National Forest is not found in any other national forest in the continental US. We did 3 quick overnights as we were working our way north in Florida…
From St. Pete‘s we continued creeping north in Florida, waiting for warmer weather before leaving the state all together. First stop, Sparcia Witherell Family Winter and Vineyards, a Harvest Host. We had no idea until we arrived that the…
