Usually, when I travel, I look ahead of time to see what National Park Service properties I will be near, but with this trip, I was...

I was on my way to Penland, North Carolina, and doing a rare long day of driving. As I was traveling along, listening to my book on...

The Punto del Morro is the main attraction of the San Juan National Historic Site, and is impressive in its location and size. The...

While in southern Arizona, my kids and I visited the Tumacacori National Historic Park. The Historic Park is the location of where...

The history at this site was so interesting to me, and probably not JUST because I am a transportation engineer. The site is in rural...

As I walked towards the Woman’s Rights National Historic Park, I saw a sign at a corner that said, “First Convention for Woman’s Rights...

This was an unusual site, and I was curious to get inside and learn about it. In 1901, Buffalo NY was hosting the Pan American...

These two locations are located near Toledo Ohio in Maumee, Ohio. I didn’t know much about them before arriving, although I had heard of...

James Garfield was the 20th US president, for only 200 days before he died from gunshot wounds. He served from March 4, 1881, to...

When I was in grade school, Jimmy Carter was the President. He is probably the first President I remember, and what I remember most was...

On my way to Florida for a COVID solo trip, I decided to detour a bit to visit the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park near Macon,...

While on my road trip to the south eastern states, I needed to visit a National Park Property in Georgia. Since I was in the Atlanta...

Travelling south from Wisconsin into southern Illinois and Indiana is not the most exciting drive I have been on, but in the late autumn,...

In the past 6 years or so, I have been fortunate to have gone on several epic road trips around the United States. I would still be doing...

I can comfortably say that I am an expert on visiting National Park Service properties. While many people have gone to more than me, I...

I was on a solo road trip of the northeast states and had just been to Acadia National Park in Main. I stopped in Salem Massachusetts...

While on my road trip of the northeastern part of this country, I was on the lookout for National Park Service properties that I had not...

While on a short road trip to the northeastern states, I decided to visit Boston, since it has a plethora of interesting historic places,...

While on a road trip of the northeast states, my goal was to visit a National Park Service property in each state. Vermont was tricky,...

In the summer of 2019, there were only a handful of states that I had not visited National Park Service properties in. Several of those...