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 …
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 …
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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 …
08/11/2019The sound of church bells woke me up and reminded me that it was Sunday...oh no, already? The days are slipping away. The bells were from a church right across the street. As we left the building for the day, the church doors were open and a woman was singing her heart out. We went …
Continue reading Hawaiian Historical Sites and an Escape into the Night…
08/09/2019 I woke up to a slightly damp sleeping bag...don’t worry guys, it rained last night. The rainfly doesn’t cover the entire tent, and the inside edges of my tent got wet, and so did the bag since it was pressed against it. However, I’m glad a bought the footprint for the tent, because the …
08/08/2019I woke up to an early sunrise and first thing I did was check the weather; it was supposed to rain this afternoon. So rather than pitching the tent in the soaked ground or worse, in the rain itself, I pitched it in the morning before we left to go visit the park. It's $25 …
08/07/2019 A 0600 AM wake up for us because I was paranoid about oversleeping and missing the flight. On the drive to the airport, we listened to a local radio station where they were talking about a “tarantula wasp” that stung a woman in Maui that paralyzed her in minutes. I’m really glad we didn’t …
08/04/2019Time to fly to Maui and off to the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu. Our Airbnb host was kind enough to give us a ride and a goodbye hug too! I felt like I had made real friends here in Hawaii. First thing I notice is that check in lines are a nightmare …
My first documented major trip will be to Hawaii! How I decided this particular destination was due to Southwest Airlines adding flights to the islands, so it was a lot less expensive to fly out to there. In August, we'll be doing a 2 week trip and covering Oahu, Maui, and Big Island. Some places …
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