Finally getting to Joshua Tree!   It's one of the favorites for Matt and Angee, so they have hyped it for a while now.   This is the...

Angee and I went to visit Death Valley National Park a few days before I was to attend a glass conference. It was a good time to go - we...

The Virgin Islands is straight up gorgeous, especially the area on and around St. John. We set out to see the Virgin Islands National...

WOW This place is straight out of National Geographic. Every turn we took, we saw ANOTHER picture perfect beach. To get to the Virgin...

This was part of a longer road trip with two of my kids. Neither of them had ever been at Cuyahoga before. We only had a few hours, so...

Two of my kids and I were getting stir crazy and decided to go to Arizona for a few days. We picked Tucson because of the Saguaro...

The Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a long narrow park that follows the Cuyahoga River for miles just south of Cleveland. In this...

Late August 2020, and its in the middle (hopefully not the beginning!) of the COVID epidemic. My kids and I are getting stir crazy, so...

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...

The National Parks are beautiful, and one of the most beautiful is undeniably Yosemite National Park. I had been to Yosemite twice before...

My sister and I were on a 3-night tour of Cuba, and on the second full day, we had an awesome day outside of the city. Our guide had...

It was HOT!!! On the day I visited the Acadia National Park on my quick road trip of the northeastern states, the temperature was well...

In the summer of 2019, I was at the end of a nearly 3 week trip starting in Rocky Mountain National Park, and moving to Glacier National...

A month before this trip, my job was eliminated, and I was unemployed for the first time since I was 13. I was a bit lost, a bit...

One of my favorite trips ever!! Mostly because of who joined me, but WOW, Rocky Mountain National Park is beautiful!! All three of my...

I am trying to visit a National Park Service property in every state. I take road trips, and plan my itinerary based on which NPS...

After visiting at the Wind Cave National Park, we headed northeast and drove through the Badlands National Park. This is a weird area,...

Angee is on a quest to visit EVERY National Park in the United States, so since we were so close to Wind Cave, we took a little detour to...

After being in beautiful Grand Teton National Park, Angee Matt and I went north into Yellowstone. Its amazing that the scenery can...