Adventures including visit(s) to National Park Site(s)
Learning lots of South Carolina History We camped in Sesquicentennial State Park on the outskirts of Columbia, our 3rd State Park Camping in as many stops. We just hung out in camp and hiked around Sesquicentennial Lake on Halloween, resting up to go exploring the rest of our stay. We Read more
Short visit south of Cleveland Sunday evening we had a lovely dinner with a few of Mark’s Cleveland area cousins (Janice, Ricky, Mary, Patty) at the 1815 Tavern in Aurora. Midday Sunday (before the dinner) and Monday (before the thunderstorm and first real rain we’ve seen in awhile), we took Read more
On the southern shore of Lake Michigan Where we spent one day back in Illinois (Chicago), one day in Michigan (with “Gail’s Charlie”, Charlie-W, her baby brother, who lives ~30 minutes up the eastern shore of Lake Michigan), and one day hanging out/visiting around Beverly Shores, Indiana, where we were Read more
Across South Dakota, almost to Minnesota Three nights, 2-day stop here, with time for 2 visits. Although, we mustn’t forget our visit enroute, in Mitchell, SD, to see the The Worlds Only Corn Palace! The exterior of the Moorish Revival building is decorated with “crop art”, i.e. the murals and designs covering the Read more
Again, finally, after almost 11 years We’ve been wanting to return to Medora, ND, since we first visited in October 2014. Then we had a day and a half to visit the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt NP. Most of Medora was “closed”. Seriously. Just the Rough Rider Hotel, one Read more
Arriving via two 45-minute Alaska Seaplanes flights Our flights from Sitka to Juneau and on to Skagway (in a Cessna Caravan 208) felt like a sightseeing trip, flying mostly over the mountains on a beautiful day. Gail even sat in the co-pilot seat, for the 1st leg. On the second Read more
Beginning of our last week in Alaska, on-our-own Gail woke up about 2:30 am and looked out the window, expecting it to be “just dark” as on previous nights. NO! All kinds of lights on the shore. So she opened the door to get a better picture, and scared the Read more
On the Admiralty Dream We arrived in Juneau and got to our hotel after 10:00 pm on Friday. Thankfully the Welcome Breakfast on Saturuday (for the next phase of our John Hall’s Alaska Tour) was late enough, we could get a decent nights sleep. Juneau Saturday After breakfast, we had Read more
Wrapping up our Alaska Land Tour Over the last 3 days we drove back through Anchorage to Seward (with stops), took an 8.5-hour Cruise in Kenai Fjords National Park, drove back to Anchorage (with stops), said Goodbye to 9 of 25 of our group, and flew to Juneau with the Read more
And, no, we did not see The Mountain Apparently, only ~30% of visitors to Denali National Park actually see The Mountain. We were not among them. On top of that, Mark got a bad, bad cold (flu?) and went to bed Sunday before dinner and spent Monday mostly sleeping. Anyway… Read more