Bryce Canyon National Park
The Southern Paiute call Bryce Canyon “Unka-koh-vah-wong-weents” which means “Red Face Standing.” Paiute sacred oral tradition states that hoodoos are ancient “Legend People” turned to…
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We’ll be at Bryce Canyon National Park in southwestern Utah for a few days, staying in a campground in Bryce City about a mile from…
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Weeping Rock is a natural rock alcove where water continuously seeps through 4,000 feet of sandstone and drips from an overhanging cliff face, giving the…
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Zion National Park had almost 5 million visitors last year, the second most visited National Park. (The Great Smoky Mountains National Park had the most…
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The Zion-Mount Carmel Highway, also known as Highway 9, is a 25-mile-long route. Before its completion in 1930, the road from the park’s lower canyon to…
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- Bryce Canyon National Park
- Bryce Canyon
- Weeping Rock Trail
- Why Do So Many Foreign Travelers Visit Zion?
- Utah Facts
- The Zion-Mount Carmel Highway
- Zion National Park
- Zion Canyon
- Utah, here we come
- Hoover Dam Historic Rail Trail
- The Hoover Dam
- Boulder Beach
- Water Problems in the Desert
- Another view from our campsite
- Lake Mead, Nevada
- Phoenix, the Valley of the Sun
- Ready, Set, …
- Tucson Museum of Art
- Saguaro National Park
- More Tucson
- Tuscon
- Definitely not Kansas (or New England)
- Tucson, Arizona
- Roadside Art
- Las Cruces, New Mexico
- I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore
- More Austin, Part II
- Fun Things We Did in Austin…
- Heading West
- The Lone Star
- Austin, Texas
- Life on the Peninsula
- The Bolivar Peninsula
- The Beatles in Baton Rouge
- Baton Rouge
- The “Red Stick” city
- Mobile to Baton Rouge
- Where are we headed?
- Mobile, Alabama
- Small Town, Big Beach
- It’s Spring!
- More Interesting Things We Did in Birmingham
- Segregated Housing in Birmingham
- The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- Some Fun Things We Did in Birmingham
- Alabama isn’t Rhode Island
- Spock, Where are you?
- Birmingham, Alabama
- Yikes!
- We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
- Até logo (See you later)
- Jewish Portugal, Part 3
- Heading Home
- Castles
- Évora
- Jewish Portugal, Part 2
- Castelo de Vide
- Castelo Branco
- More Belmonte, and Sortelha
- Belmonte, Part 2
- Museu Judaico de Belmonte
- Belmonte
- Coimbra
- The Road Trip
- Miscellaneous pics
- Porto
- On the road to Porto
- A Fun Sunday
- Alfama
- The Kids Are Here!
- Jewish Portugal
- Now, the history lesson
- More Bairro Alto
- Bairro Alto
- Our First Day in Lisbon
- Our Portuguese Adventure
- A New Adventure Awaits
- Heading home
- Endings, and Beginnings
- Our Tour of New Brunswick
- Summer
- St. Martins
- Some additional pics from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery
- Fredericton Pics
- The Beaverbrook Art Gallery/Musée des beaux-arts
- About Fredericton
- Biking in Fredericton
- Shediac, New Brunswick
- Today’s bike ride
- Biking in Kouchibouguac
- Mi’gmaq Cedar Trail
- Another day, another bike ride
- Sights along the Kellys Beach Boardwalk
- Kellys Beach
- Kouchibouguac National Park
- A few of Cathie’s Fundy pics
- A few thoughts about Fundy National Park
- Dickson Falls Trail
- Hopwell Rocks
- The Bay of Fundy
- Ministers Island
- What we did on Wednesday
- Life is good
- Saint Andrews, New Brunswick
- Oh Canada!
- Down East
- Southern Maine
- Goodbye New Hampshire
- Part 2
- The Granite State
- Heading north
- A Beautiful Day For A Bike Ride
- More Richmond Pics
- A Tudor Manor in Richmond
- Ashland, VA
- Raleigh, NC
- Downtown Cville
- Other Interesting Things We Did
- The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia
- Charlottesville, VA
- Shenandoah National Park
- History comes alive
- Colonial Williamsburg
- It’s Spring!
- First bike ride of the new year
- On the road again
- The Berkshires
- And It’s a Wrap!
- ‘I Owe My Soul to the Company Store‘
- Friends and Family
- About West Virginia
- New River Gorge National Park
- West Virginia
- West Michigan Lakeshore
- Milwaukee Art Museum
- Gimble Brothers and an Art Museum with Wings
- Acts of Intolerance
- Last day pics
- Goodbye Door
- Sturgeon Bay
- Life on the Escarpment
- Biking in Peninsula State Park
- Another day, another sunset
- Egg Harbor, Wisconsin
- Porte de Morts (Door of Death)
- Door County, Wisconsin
- More North Shore sights
- North Shore sites and sights
- Duluth
- Maps and Roads
- Exploring: Day 2
- The North Shore
- Some fun things we did in Minneapolis
- The Lakes
- The Grand Rounds Trail
- The Twin Cities
- ‘Police Incident’ on I35
- The Amana Colonies
- The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
- Along the Cedar River
- Biking in Iowa
- Living in an RV
- Iowa
- On to Iowa
- Springfield, Illinois
- Route 66
- Power Problems in our RV
- It’s Hot
- Fun things we did in Indianapolis
- Victory Field
- Indianapolis – Part 2
- Indianapolis
- Roof Problems
- Columbus Museum of Art
- More fireworks
- Happy 4th!
- Mercer, PA
- Lewisburg, PA
- Our summer travels
- First Day Back on the Road
- Home Again
- The Best Bike Ride of the Trip
- The National Road
- More on Grantsville
- Grantsville, Maryland
- Good bye Cincinnati
- The Banks
- What Makes a City Interesting?
- The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Kentucky
- Mammoth Caves
- Natchez Trace
- Natchez Trace – Days 2 and 3
- Natchez Trace Parkway
- The Mississippi River
- Goodbye New Orleans
- Some of the Fun Things We Did in New Orleans
- NOMA Sculpture Garden
- They’re Trying to Wash Us Away
- New Orleans wildlife
- Resort Living
- The Gulf
- The Florida Panhandle
- Spring
- The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
- Hard Truths Must Be Told
- Friends
- Downtown Montgomery
- The Legacy Museum
- The Wetumpka Impact Crater
- A Few Things to Know about Alabama
- The Deep South
- Four Oaks, NC
- 750 Miles Later
- We’re Off
- Ready, Set, Go!
- Back to our ‘Sticks and Bricks’
- Wrapping it up
- “Ohio, The Heart of It All”
- Ohio
- RV Hall of Fame and Museum
- Midwest Museum of American Art
- Elkhart, Indiana
- Biking in MKE (Milwaukee)
- Baseball and Beaches
- Saturday in Milwaukee
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- The Maritime Museum in Manitowoc
- Manitowoc, Wisconsin
- Morning Bike Ride
- Facts about Wisconsin
- Things we saw on our bike ride
- Two Rivers, Wisconsin
- Goodbye Lake Superior
- Chasing Waterfalls
- The Wisconsin Peninsula?
- The weather changes
- One more look at Pictured Rocks
- Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
- Pictures from the Lake
- The U.P.
- Experiencing the Locks
- Soo Locks Boat Tour and more
- Continuing along Lake Superior
- Goodbye Canada
- More Native American History
- Sault Ste. Marie Museum
- A few more pictures and history from our bike ride
- Lake Superior
- Art Gallery of Algoma
- Sault Ste. Marie Canal and the Locks
- Biking in the Soo
- Sault Ste. Marie and the St. Marys River
- The Ojibwe Cultural Foundation
- Manatoulin Island is Home
- Providence Bay
- On My Morning Walk…
- Little Current
- Exploring the Island
- Life on the Island
- Manitoulin Island
- Random thoughts…
- Two Stops at Harvest Hosts
- Last Night in Port Elgin
- The Saugeen Bruce Peninsula
- Port Elgin, Ontario
- Barrie KOA
- Barrie, Ontario
- On our last day in Ottawa…
- Watching the Locks
- The National Gallery of Canada
- Rideau Canal
- Biking in Ottawa
- Ottawa
- Quick Facts About Ottawa
- Fun Things We Did
- The North Country
- Sunset Cruise on ‘The River’
- Exploring the area
- Thousand Islands, NY
- The Van Gogh Exhibition “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
- Our first bike ride of the trip
- The Mohawk-Hudson Bike Trail
- A Perfect Summer Day
- If I could bottle up this day and…
- Ontario Road Trip
- Thinking of the South
- Home, for now
- Biking in Philly
- Back to Familiar Territory
- All the Things We Did
- Next stop: Washington D.C.
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
- Just Hanging
- Spending the day in Richmond
- A good day for a bike ride
- Moving onto Richmond
- More Parkway pics
- Exploring Lynchburg
- The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
- Lazy Day
- Changes to the Website
- Goodbye, Asheville
- Lynchburg, Virginia
- Friends on the Road
- The Botanical Gardens at Asheville
- Asheville’s Urban Trail
- The North Carolina Arboretum
- The French Broad River
- The Blue Ridge Parkway
- Irises and bamboo
- Asheville, NC
- Other Fun Stuff
- At the American Tobacco Historic District
- Duke University and the Sarah P. Duke Gardens
- The Price of Beauty?
- The Triangle
- Heading Inland
- Holden Beach
- Beach Time
- Visiting Macon
- Baconsfield Park, Macon GA
- The Tubman Museum
- Spider Web?
- The Heart of Georgia
- More about the Squares
- Forsyth Park
- Beaufort, SC
- The first planned city?
- A Walk Around The Lake
- Summer-like weather, finally
- Savannah, The Hostess City of the South
- The Founding of Georgia
- The Norh Augusta Greenway
- Racism, Slavery and the South
- The Lowell of the South
- Tuesday at The Morris Museum of Art
- A rainy Sunday morning in Augusta
- Charleston Architecture
- Next stop: Augusta, GA
- A synagogue tour
- Visiting a plantation continued
- Visiting a plantation
- Map of Charleston
- The Beaches in South Carolina are like…
- Charles Town
- A little Charleston history
- Charleston, SC
- Friday in Fayetteville, NC
- “Rest” Day
- The Next Adventure
- Heading South
- Last look
- Where We’ve Been
- Our last day in Maine
- Spending the Day in Rockland
- Enjoying Penobscot Bay
- Last stop: Maine
- A last look at the Bay from our campsite
- Interesting facts (to me) about Canada
- St. Martins, New Brunswick Part 2
- Clouds
- Rain, rain and more rain
- St. Martins, New Brunswick
- Dinner Guests
- Our visit to the Park
- Fundy National Park
- Fundy National Park and the Bay of Fundy
- Correction
- Exploring the western shore of St. Margaret’s Bay
- Halifax Facts
- Maud Lewis
- Bagpiper at Peggy’s Cove
- Saturday in Halifax
- On the St. Margaret’s Bay bike trail
- More Peggy’s Cove
- Peggy’s Cove
- Cape Breton
- Travelling the Cabot Trail
- The Fortress of Louisbourg
- A brief history of Cape Breton
- Welcome to Nova Scotia
- Farewell PEI
- Greenwich
- PEI National Park
- Trying to stay cool
- Timing is Everything
- Musée Acadien
- What’s in a name, part deux
- What’s in a name
- Anne of Green Gables
- Prince Edward Island
- Caraquet, NB
- Two Flags
- Conversations
- Leaving the Gaspé
- At the boardwalk
- Beers and Beach
- Sunday in Percé
- On the Water
- Random thoughts
- La Pointe
- Some history of Mont Louis
- Driftwood Artists
- Goodbye Mont Louis
- Mont Albert
- Tuesday’s adventure
- A Brief history of the Gaspé Peninsula according to the Canadian Encyclopedia
- Gaspésie
- Final picture from the Restigouche Esplanade
- The Battle of Restigouche
- The Restigouche River
- Canada, at last
- An Exciting Walk
- Maine fun (and some not so fun) facts
- Mount Katahdin
- Freeport and beyond
- Freeport and the surrounding area
- Filling an RV gas tank is not for the faint of heart…
- Canada
- A Weekend Away
- Final thoughts about our Lakes tour
- Heading Home
- Hudson Valley
- Nathanael Greene
- Audiobooks for the Road
- The Attack of the Black Walnuts
- Family time
- Bella Terra Vineyards
- Zanesville, OH
- Indianapolis
- The Tale of the Duck Egg
- Photo Gallery – Great Lakes
- Heading South
- Dark Sky
- i thank You God for most this amazing day
- Lake Superior
- The Mackinac region
- Good bye Traverse City
- The Tale of Cherry Pie
- Pierce Stocking Drive
- Cathie and Michael’s Excellent Day
- Onto Lake Michigan
- Moonrise, Sunset
- Small town Michigan
- Alpena Miscellany
- Northern Michigan
- Saginaw
- Some Thoughts about Michigan
- The Thumb
- Lake Huron
- Seasons Change
- Tashlich
- Detroit
- Dundee, Michigan
- Missed opportunities
- Ashtabula, OH
- Cleveland
- Erie, PA
- Lake Erie
- Last Day in Wilson
- Campers
- Next stop – Lake Ontario
- Waterfalls
- Fun stuff we did in the Finger Lakes
- Why so many wineries?
- Rain, rain, go away…
- A bit of Corning, NY history.
- The trip begins
- The Lakes Trip
- Touring Around Vermont
- Give folks the info and they’ll figure it out…
- Some folks will fly the flag anywhere
- Eating Our Way Through Vermont
- Burlington, Vermont
- St. Johnsbury
- Rural Vermont
- Montpelier, and a bike ride
- Livin’ With the Moose
- Home, for now
- Hudson Valley
- Memorial Day
- Cool and Rainy
- Elizabethtown, PA
- Is this a vacation?
- Virginia and Pennsylvania
- The Pandemic Blues
- Snippets of Life in the Smokies
- Into the Mountains
- Richmond, VA
- Harvest Hosts
- The Chick
- Southern Virginia
- DC/Maryland
- The District
- Summer Weather
- Leaves
- Starting our Spring Trip
- We Have A Toad!
- Big Upgrades?
- Spring Plans?
- Maintenance
- Back Home
- Last Day on the Road
- Into the Woods
- Heading North
- MOM’s Organic Market
- Visiting DC
- Biking in the Burbs
- Camping in the Suburbs
- Paint Branch Trail, MD
- Cherry Hill Park Campground
- The Schuylkill River
- Valley Forge
- Riding in Downingtown
- Living the Dream?
- State College Part 2
- The Arboretum at Penn State
- State College
- The Poconos
- Fall Camping
- Delaware Water Gap
- Camping in Pennsylvania
- Last Evening
- Bloomingdale Bog Trail
- The Adirondacks
- Blessing on seeing a natural wonder
- A Walk in the Woods
- Three State Travel
- Northern New Hampshire
- Trees and Lakes
- Second Home?
- The North Country
- Exploring The White Mountains
- Travel Day
- The White Mountains
- New Hampshire
- Saturday Adventure
- A trip through the Berkshires
- The Mohawk Trail
- Camping in the Berkshires
- Round Two Coming Up
- Good-Bye Minuteman Campground
- Listen My Children…
- Our Maiden Voyage
- Taking Our Time
- Shakedown
- First Day
- Final day of Prep
- Preparing for our First Trip
- We have taken possession of the RV
- Ready or not
- Toys
- Onto A New Track?
- Sign of the times…
- Covid-19 update
- If only…
- The best laid plans…
- We have a Toad
- Our Big Purchase
- Hershey RV Show
- What did we learn?
- Homeward bound
- Preparing to say goodbye
- Day 7
- Up in the mountains
- Day 3, 4, 5 and 6
- A day at the beach
- Early morning…
- Cathie’s take on Rental Day 2
- Rental Day 2
- Rental Day 1
- Summer Plans
- Towing
- The Boston RV Show 2019
- What Should We Buy?
- Our RV Rental (in 2017)
- Background
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