Joshua Tree National Park
“Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush […]
San Diego I
We didn’t have much spare time in San Diego this year, and we visited many of the big attractions last year, so we picked an area we’d never visited before to check out one afternoon. Click HERE for a few pictures of San Diego’s Mission Bay area and up to La Jolla. The most popular […]
Wichita to Cali
With 3 short days to drive from Wichita to San Diego, we decided to get a head start and get going directly after work on Saturday. These are some shots from Arizona and California along the way.
Wichita, KS
The City of Wichita grew from trading posts set up at the confluence of the Big and Little Arkansas Rivers in the late 1800s. The “Keeper of the Plains” still stands watch from this spot where the rivers flow together. There are lots of parks and museums in this area, and we visited several, including […]
Tulsa Life
We admittedly didn’t put in as much effort into this visit to Tulsa as we had other places. There are certainly plenty of interesting things to do, but it was such a short visit, and we were working a lot. Maybe we were tired, maybe it was the weather, who knows? In all fairness, Tulsa […]
Beyond Graceland
Memphis: home of Fedex, The Piggly Wiggly, one of the busiest cement terminals in the country, and Pork Barbecue Capital of the World. We started with a HUGE pork shoulder sandwich at Neely’s. This may have been the best taste yet, and the price was right too!The other food highlight was ribs at Rendezvous, in […]
Music City Nashville
Since neither of us had ever spent much time in Nashville, we wanted to get a taste of what it has to offer. With the Nashville: Music City All-Access Pass, we were able to choose four major attractions (plus bonus entry to the Parthenon). We did a whirlwind tour, and accomplished quite a bit.Nashville is […]
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Carlsbad Caverns National Park The Guadalupe Mountains on the Texas-New Mexico border reach heights of almost 9,000 feet. Not far away, deep beneath the surface, are hundreds of caverns formed when sulfuric acid dissolved surrounding limestone. The limestone is what remains of a coral reef of an inland sea from around 250 million years ago. […]
Puro Sabor de Juarez
Our last visits to El Paso focused primarily on history and nature (see entries from the Mission Trail, Hueco Tanks, Franklin Mountains, White Sands Natl. Monument). We had never really seen much of downtown, never mind crossed the border. El Paso’s downtown has lots of interesting gunslinger history, some neat old buildings, museums and cultural […]
We’re Not in Kansas Anymore
Storm Watchers in TX A few shots on the drive from Topeka to El Paso. We took a shorter route on a slightly smaller highway, avoiding passing through Albuquerque and seeing a few new sites along the way.