Reviews of the places of travel in good old USA
Palo Duro Canyon State Park is near the city of Amarillo about 8 hours from San Antonio and considered the "Grand Canyon" of Texas. The Lighthouse Trail is the most famous one at that park to a rock formation that looks like, well, a lighthouse. After months of working 2 jobs, it was time to …
03/13/2020 This Corona Virus, COVID-19, is all over the news. It seems that you can’t get food, sanitizer, or toilet paper, go out in public, and you should prepare to hunker down at home. Schools and workplaces are closed. But the National Parks are still open! I had originally planned to go to Guadalupe Mountains …
12/31/2019 This morning we drove the hour and a half to the Grand Canyon! I’m excited because I’ve always wanted to see it my whole life! The drive is smooth through the highways, which aren’t iced or snowy and the scenery is nice. The lines aren’t that long and now my annual pass has paid …
01/01/2020 The evening before I was having some serious chills and felt super feverish. I also could barely breathe or move. I realized that I might be really sick and looked for a clinic that was nearby to visit. Unfortunately, it’s New Year’s Day and nothing but the Flagstaff ER is open. I tried the …
12/30/2019 After spending the night in Tucson, it was time to explore Saguaro National Park. I learned that there are actually 2 sections of this national park and so I went to the West section first in the mountainous area west of the city of Tucson. This section had tall saguaro cacti dotting the sides …
Continue reading Saguaro National Park and Casa Grande Ruins
12/28/2019 A week’s worth of clothing and items for one week of (mostly driving) travel to Arizona! I wanted to make sure that if my clothes got snow and wet, I would have enough dry clothes so it’s more than I would normally pack. Here’s what went inside: Packing cube (clean/dirty) with: 5 long sleeve …
12/29/2019 This past week had been very tough. A break was much needed to reflect and regroup my mental health. The best medicine is travel: so off to Arizona! Driving through the long I-10 west corridor, I drive literally through the mountains and think, “how do they pave such long roads out here?” In answer …
Thanksgiving Weekend, Concan, Texas, 11/30/2019 After a stretch of working 10 days straight, I was overdue to do some deep decompression time, and the best way to do that is to go outdoors! This time we brought our little doggie to join us! I chose Garner State Park here in Texas because (A): it’s only …
11/02/2019 The weather has been still warm-ish and colder in the nights, so last weekend it was time to go to one of my favorite places: Big Bend National Park! It was only a weekend trip, and I had been to Big Bend before, but I decided to do some of the trails that I …
I really chose Hawaii because it was just so darn cheap with Southwest releasing their new flights to the islands. $50 inter-island plane tickets also were a helping deciding factor: a cheap way to see more of the state. Here's some things I'm so glad I had on hand: My PackTowel brand travel towel-it packs …
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