Our visit to Key West is now a few weeks back, before the intensity of COVID-19.  Since then, we heard that Key West has temporarily clos...

Our first stay in the Florida Keys was in Marathon, on Grassy Key.  We weren’t really sure what we were going to do other than enjoy the ...

Visiting Everglades National Park was a unique experience. It's unlike any other place we have been. We opted for an airboat tour to se...

Biscayne National Park is located in the northern part of the Florida Keys. It covers 270 square miles, and 95% of the park is underwate...

The North Shore beauty becomes even more spectacular in the fall! We made our way up for a few days to check out the fall colors. The c...

In addition to fly fishing in Estes Park, we spent two full days exploring the amazing Rocky Mountain National Park. The park is known f...

High on our list, before we ever left, was a fly fishing adventure in Estes Park -- and a good choice it was! We inquired at our campgro...

Devils Tower, located in eastern Wyoming, emerges out of nowhere! Geologists agree Devils Tower contains molten rock. How it was formed...

Buena Vista was a stop over during our trip enroute to our next destination, but we enjoyed the visit. We stayed at the Buena Vista KOA,...

We knew very little about this national park. It is one of the newest. The name "Black Canyon" comes from the small amount of sunlight ...

It's easy to see how many consider the Grand Canyon to be one of the seven wonders of the world! It really needs to be seen to be apprec...

We were a little perplexed about how to navigate Yosemite from stories we’ve heard about how many people visit each year and knowing we w...

When you start off with a great winery, you can be one and done! We planned on multiple winery visits, but chose Kuleto first as it was D...

We had one full day in San Francisco, including our visit to Alcatraz Island. The day was warm and fog-free, including the evening. Rar...

Somehow we missed that this was a national park . . . score . . . since we are hitting several of them on this trip! They said it's the ...

Happy 4th of July! We had San Francisco in mind for the 4th, but fog predictions (which are normal) combined with what would have been a...

Redwoods are the tallest living thing on earth, with the tallest one currently measuring at 379.7 feet tall. They can live to over 2,000...

Usually a drive day doesn't warrant a post, but this is the Oregon Coast we are talking about! We enjoyed a partial segment of this spec...

The "sandbox" was quite fun to play in! We rented a couple single seat Polaris RZR1's at Spinreel ATV. Two seaters apparently lead to h...

We had some debate whether we should backtrack from Olympic National Park to Mt. St. Helens after previously being at Mt Rainier and seei...