North America Travel Blogs

Home at last! Just can’t wait to get back home again. Back in my own bed, Eating my wife’s good home cooking. Shucks even she made the comment that she was getting tired of having to eat out every meal. After being on the road for 37 days, it feels so good to get back home. Now we have to go th…

This is a collection of photographs from the mid 1990s that were imprisoned in an old computer of mine. I just paid a Computer Geek to grant it them clemency. I will post them for now just for fun. I need to get out my notes so that I can group them by site and write some captions. All of these…

Okay, after seeing these videos you will no doubt believe this crew is absolutely insane! It really is hard to explain how we arrived at this, so you will just have to watch the videos...they will explain it better than I can. The first video is the queening ceremony of Mellemel8, aka Queen CW. Mel…

This was my day....I sooo look forward to this day.  I have worked so much and missed being out on the trail...my soul was literally calling to get the hell out of Dodge...and get out there.  I had planned this all week..over and over in my brain it was almost all I thought about.I did my…

Our 2007 trip was a trip to discover and film as many waterfalls as we could in the North West section of the U.S.  One difference this time is that we actually had purchased a GPS system.  My husband loves those little toys and was thrilled to be able to try it out.  We had also che…

Thursday May 7 The last day in New York. Out of bed early and collect the food from the lobby again. This time the hotel was busy. This time I stayed downstairs longer. Drink more coffee and enjoyed my free time. I went upstairs to bring the food up. Now we have to rearrange the suitcases and try …

This entry goes out to Joy, who this party would not have happened without. Thank you for putting into action amidst all the craziness going on in your own life. Also, thank you Eric and Lisa for coming to hang out! It was so cool to chat and be teased by "very exciting new development on TB that y…

Our flight from of Honolulu was due out at 0915 this morning so we had an early start to be at the airport 2 hours prior to check in. We packed, paid our bill at the hotel last night and returned the hire car yesterday as well, so all we needed to do this morning was roll out of bed, shower, pu…

Christmas in Mexico City is a strange experience. The usually busy, dirty, noisy city was completely deserted. Here and there we encountered a lost car or pedestrian, but for the rest the city was eerily empty. The Zócalo, the always busy square in front of the cathedral, was just so weird wi…

As with most trips I have ever taken, the planning stage is extensive and way overblown.  This one is no different, except that the whole thing began more than six months ago, which makes it even worse than the others.  I've had all that time to get things ready, check out all of the poss…

This morning, for the second time in my life, I woke up in a field somewhere in West Virginia.  This was the last time I would be waking up in a tent.  I reflected on our journey, how in just over a month's time we traveled through 25 of the 50 states, and visited over 20 National Pa…

Sunday morning felt like RUSH week at the start of a new school year for incoming fraternity recruits! Rush, rush, rush…. For starters, we still hadn’t made our poster sign for the game, let alone come up with something to write on it. But somehow things all fell into place. The sign was made,…

On Saturday night we drove Linda and Ray to the Airport for their return home to Medford.   We were sorry to see them go ...   Honestly, I don't know how we could have had a better time.   It was so relaxing and fun to see them for the week.   Ray and David t…

I took some time today to visit the 43rd annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall. The featured country this year was Wales.I wanted first to see the Wales ironworking exhibit. (Among my ancstestors is a great-great-grandfather who worked in the Welsh iron industry.) When I arrived…

David, (Daviebey),  joined the site on June 14, 2009 and one of the two shots he posted was this nice one looking up at himself and the pine trees.  I think it was taken at Yellowstone National Park near the same time as the other nice shot he posted as a profile shot. …