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Antique Farm Equipment Our friend Gary arrived yesterday for a weekend of rest, relaxation, and exploration. Today we ventured into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park by exploring the Oconoluftee Farm Museum and Mingus Mill to get an idea of what life was like in...
Heading to one of the less traveled areas of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, we ventured to higher altitudes today to drive the Heintooga Bottoms Road with Patti and Rebecca in our Chevy Impala. It's been our favorite auto trail for decades. It's a one lane, one...
Matt & Emily and their mother Cathy are visiting on their Spring Break. Besides helping with some of the tasks related to the renovation of our mountain house and exploring the creeks, they've joined us for a trip into Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It's too...
We spent the day in Hot Springs National Park. It's a city with thermal hot springs in the center of town! Our first stop was the observation tower atop Hot Springs Mountain. The visitors center is housed in the Fordyce Bathhouse, an Edwardian era bath house. There...
Park Video Following our cave tour and after a quick lunch at the top we headed out for our next stop, Las Cruces NM. Our route took us through a part of Guadalupe Mountains National Park in northern Texas. With little time or energy for exploration today, we got just...
See Park Video Early this morning we returned to Carlsbad Caverns and this time we entered through the Natural Entrance, past the Bat Flight Amphitheater where we remember watching the bat flight at dusk one evening in September 1974. No bats there today though....
This morning in Santa Fe we wakened to snow patched on the ground, snow flurries in the air, and black skies to the north. So of course we headed south - to Carlsbad Caverns National Park, near the town of Carlsbad, New Mexico in the southeastern corner of the state....
See Park Video The real treat of the day was our visit to Mesa Verde National Park, a World Heritage site. We took the Cliff Palace tour and our guide, Ranger Scott really conveyed a sense of what life was like for the Ancestral Pueblo People here more than six...
See Park Video See Park Video Started the day with a sunrise visit to Arches National Park and loved it even with the gray skies. Love that park! Went to Mass in Moab then had breakfast at the Jailhouse Cafe. Great food. By afternoon thunderstorms had rolled in but we...
Ranger Talk Video See Park Video We spent the early morning in Arches National Park. At the suggestion of a ranger, we hiked out to Landscape Arch and explored a little beyond but not so far as the Double O Arch. On the way into town at midday we saw a cattle drive,...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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Our passage from New York to Southampton aboard Queen Mary 2 has been a delight. Fascinating insights talks, delicious food and drink, and
With a hotel stay just around the corner from the east end of Wall Street we had an ideal location to visit an Aussie Pub, walk the waterfront, explore Wall Street for a bit before ferrying over to the Brooklyn Cruise terminal for embarkation aboard Queen Mary 2 bound for Southampton.
The journey to begin our next big adventure took us through NY wine country and on into the Connecticut River Valley for an anniversary celebration and a family visit before boarding Amtrak’s Vermonter destined for NY Penn Station.