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Sedona Area Historical Sites

May 12, 2022 Leave a Comment

Sedona Arizona is one of the most beautiful areas of the country. Although it is particularly famed for red rock cliffs, buttes, and eerie formations, Sedona has much more to do than staring at the views and hiking the area’s numerous trails. The area is loaded with historic sites created by its Native American inhabitants. […]

Filed Under: Mountains, National Parks, Nature & Hiking, Sedona Tagged With: historic sites, National Parks, ntezuma Castle National Monument, Tuzigoot National Monument, Verde Valley

Shenandoah National Park

January 6, 2022 Leave a Comment

The Shenandoah National Park is in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. It runs from Front Royal at its northern entrance to its southern entrance near Waynesboro. The 115 mile Skyline Drive takes you through the park. It is lined with pastoral scenes and overlooks that provide beautiful views without even getting out of your […]

Filed Under: Featured-City, Mountains, National Parks, Nature & Hiking, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia Tagged With: National Parks, virgnia

Appomattox Virginia: The End of the Civil War

December 11, 2021 Leave a Comment

Appomatix-Court House

Appomattox Court House is the site of Robert E. Lee’s April 9, 1865 surrender of the North Virginia army to Ulysses S. Grant signaled the end the Civil War. The reconstructed courthouse at which the surrender was executed is the centerpiece of the National Historic Park and the site of the museum. The park also […]

Filed Under: Appomattox, Featured-City, Virginia Tagged With: National Parks, virgnia

Revisiting the Southeastern U.S.

December 11, 2021 Leave a Comment

Mall-Lincoln

It had been a number of years since we were in the southeast (excluding Washington, D.C., which we visit every couple years. A return trip was long overdue. This trip covered parts of South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia and, of course, D.C. It was bookmarked by two of our favorite cities: Charleston, South Carolina, […]

Filed Under: Cities, Featured-Trips, Mountains, National Parks, Nature & Hiking, North Carolina, Sightseeing, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, D.C. Tagged With: D.C. Virgnia, National Parks, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington

Boulder to Rocky Mountain National Park

September 21, 2014 Leave a Comment

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As part of our week in Colorado, we flew into Denver and, after lunch, drove to Boulder, where we met and stayed with friends. Although we did take a little time to stroll along downtown’s fun Pearl Street pedestrian mall, most of our time was spent on hikes and exploring one of the town’s newer wine […]

Filed Under: Boulder, Cities, Dining, Mountains, National Parks, Nature & Hiking, Restaurants, Rocky Mountain National Park Tagged With: Boulder, Colorado, National Parks

A Day Trip to South Dakota’s Badlands National Park

June 20, 2022 Leave a Comment

We began our Badland South Dakota tour in Wall South Dakota, just north of the park’s Pinnacles entrance. The town, as you see on billboards every few hundred feet on the 55 mile drive from Rapid City, is dominated by the Wall Drug store. Once upon a time, it began life as a small-town drug store. […]

Filed Under: Featured-Trips, Itineraries, Itineraries, Mountains, National Parks, Nature & Hiking, Sightseeing, South Dakota, Wall Tagged With: Badlands, National Parks, South Dakota

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