Spanish first, English translation below Spanish: Hola! Esto es de Sequoia y Kings Canyon NP! Primera nosotros fue a Sequoia NP y nosotros tiene que manejar en una montaña para llegar (que estallar mis oídos mucho!) Cuando nosotros están casi a la arriba de la montaña empezamos a ver...
The Channel Islands are a chain of 8 islands off the coast of southern California. The biggest ones, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, Santa Barbara and San Miguel are remnants of old California. Arid, scrubby mountains with grassy canyons and the tang of the Pacific in the air. ...
When I sat down to write this a few days ago, it was my birthday. Due to vagaries of timing on this trip, I celebrated in a wonderful place called Death Valley National Park. Not sure how auspicious this is, especially since we had to cross over the Funeral Mountains to get here…. And...
Spanish first, English translation below: Hola otra vez! Acabamos de llegar del Gran Cañón. Era fantastica! En la primera día no lo hacemos mucho. Solo hacemos la lavandería y yo leo un muy buen libro. También, durante la lavandería yo facetimed mi amiga de Nashville...
I am an east coast girl. I have lived most of my life east of the Mississippi and the two years I lived west of the Mississippi barely count as distance goes. Dan and I lived in Davenport, Iowa after business school. If I ever had a notion to scale our roof in Davenport, I would have...
Spanish first, English translation below Hola! Acabamos de ir a Hot Springs Arkansas. Cuando empieza nosotros eligió un magnífica campamento. Era muy plano y tenía conexiones completas. Hay un pequeño río también! Después de esto, nosotros caminar en un 3...
We spent the past week in the Virginias, effectively marking the end of the first half of our trip. It’s hard to believe but November 26 marks 5 months on the road! In 5 months, we have travelled 14,778 miles and have seen all states north of the 37th parallel. We have a couple of...
For those of you keeping up, you know that the top 2 parks I was most excited to visit on this trip were Glacier and Acadia. Glacier ended up being amazing. Which of course just added to my personal hopes (as well as those of the family) to have a great time in Acadia. During the...
Spanish First, English Translation Below: Un semana atrás nosotros iremos a la Parque Nacional de las Dunas de Indiana. Esto era muy divertido, pero un poco extraña porque yo no sabia que era un Parque Nacional. Un Guardabosque era muy simpático y explicado porque era un...
Mulligan. In a word, that best describes our visit to Isle Royale. We made it to the island, but a persistent fog encased much of the UP that day and we never saw more than 50-100 feet in front of us at any given point in the day. A do-over is in order! Bad weather has dogged...