Category: US

Travels with Dick and KarenSouthWest USA 2010 We drove from Seattle to the Moab Utah area and back mid-April to mid-May 2010. In 2017 we finally put up the photos so we’re doing the travelog from dimmer memory than usual. After staying with friends in Portland we drive across Oregon and ID. Two days of…

Travels with Dick and KarenEclipse May 2012Part 3John Day Fossil Beds From Yosemite we head north through the rounded dry hills of north-central California and their well spaced trees. We camped at the Gold Strike Campground in San Andreas: it was decorated with old mining hardware …and the closed mine. But they leave the light…

Travels with Dick and KarenEclipse May 2012Part 2Yosemite After the eclipse we stretched ourselves a bit to reach a campground we had previously visited on our “Volcano” trip: Burney Falls in MacArthur-Burney Memorial State Park. It’s a great campground located about 35 miles north of Lassen Volcanic National Park That’s a 130-foot drop with fascinating…

Travels with Dick and KarenEclipse May 2012Part 1Seattle to Eclipse On May 20th, 2012, the moon and sun connived to partially darken the earth with an Annular Eclipse. Although we’ve managed to get in the way of Total Solar eclipses, we’d never experienced this variety. A perfect excuse to start another trip in the Sprinter.…

Travels with Dick and KarenGlacier Fall 2012Part 3More Mountains(Jasper to Baker) 150 miles or so west from Edmonton we began to re-encounter the Rockies. With people almost walking on the water (the Snaring River near Jasper was notably wide and shallow at this time of year — but it DOES still come from melting snow).…

Travels with Dick and KarenGlacier Fall 2012Part 2: Dinos(Waterton to Edmonton) South central Alberta is flat. Very flat. Full of wheat and oil and gas wells. Along with flat, the road system is somewhat rectangular, and we were trying to strike out on a diagonal. So it was 100 miles (mostly) east, then 110 miles…

Travels with Dick and KarenGlacier Fall 2012Part 1: North Cascades to Glacier and Waterton National Parks It had been a couple of months since we returned from our California Annular Eclipse trip … so the travel bug was beginning to nibble on our toes again… We still weren’t ready to make the planning/logistics effort of…

Travels with Dick and KarenKaren, Mary and Jeremy discussing taxonomic conundrums Washington DC 2013Week 2(go to Week 1) Mary and Jeremy create fantastic ceramics inspired by pressing real leaves and stems into the clay.They were on the way between their home in southeast Ohio and a show in Pennsylvania. So we found secured covered parking…

Travels with Dick and Karen Washington DC 2013Week 1(go to Week 2)Two years ago we drove across the US and had considered spending a week in Washington DC along the way. For a variety of reasons we didn’t manage to wedge that detour into that trip. So this year we decided to make DC the…

Travels with Dick and KarenFlorida, Part 3 The Everglades(yellow line on map) First stop was the famous fruit and vegetable stand just outside the Everglades National Park. Then south to the park’s Flamingo campground at the very southern tip of Florida Where vultures instead of jays patrolled the grounds New Zealand has similar signs about…