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The National Park Service at Antietam Battlefield just outside the little town of Sharpsburg MD does an excellent job of interpreting the huge historical significance of the bloody battle that took place here in September 1862. In one day more American lives were lost...
After our travels of last summer and this summer we had visited thirty-five states in our T@B but still had gaps in the map in the Northeast. In the past four days we've added four more states: Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. We've overnighted,...
After our early morning walk to the beach, we returned to camp for a nap then an oatmeal breakfast before heading out to find a few geocaches on or way north. After about half a dozen finds in Maryland and then in Delaware, we stumbled on a breakfast restaurant that...
See Park Video Who is at the beach at sunrise on Autumnal Equinox? Photographers, surfers, and - if you are on Assateague Island - wild horses! We arrived at Assateague Island National Seashore late yesterday without reservations so we were lucky to secure a site in...
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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Queen Mary 2’s arrival in the Port of Dakar, Senegal was heralded in the local press and greeted with ceremony. Our own excursion took us on a coach journey through the streets of the capital city to visit a Wolof village and the shore of Lake Retba, the salty lake famed for an intense pink color.
Today’s safari adventure transported us out into the Dorob National Park to have up close encounters with little creatures that are well adapted to the extreme heat and lack of water in the Namib Desert.
With a UNESCO World Heritage Site, two national parks, dozens of museums, and hundreds of tours offered in the Cape Town area there is more than plenty to do. For our two day visit we opted to concentrate on African wildlife visiting the Aquila Private Game Reserve and the Boulders Beach Penguin Colony for a wonderful chance to these fabulous animals in their own habitat.