Day 7 – Athens to Corinth Athens, Corinth, Lavrion Friday, October 31, 2014 Today is the first day of our regular tour. We had an early start leaving from our hotel, Davine Palace Acropolis, and headed to Corinth. Paul, the apostle, met Priscilla and Aquilla here and spent about a year and a half building…
July 5 and 6, 2014 We left Phoenix very early in order to arrive in Santa Fe, NM in time to go to the Georgia O’Keefe Museum. The exhibition was Georgia O’Keefe and Ansel Adams: The Hawai’i Pictures. We spent the morning walking on Canyon Road to photograph some of the art galleries. Then we…
June 25, 2014 In an effort to escape the heat of Phoenix we travelled to higher elevations in the Bradshaw mountains in search of the Desoto Mine. It is northwest of Cleator off of the Crown King road. The Desoto mine was opened in 1890-1972 and produced Cu, W, Ag, Au, Pb, Zn, and Fe.…
March 25 – April 1 The bird photos were taken at Homosassa Springs, Lakeland, and Venice Florida. Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park emits millions of gallons of water at a constant 72 F. Manatees congregate here in the winter. The park has rescue wildlife native to Florida that can no longer survive on their own…
July 24, 2013 Our recent 4 wheel drive trip took us to Payson, AZ and then to Woods Canyon Lake on the Mogollon Rim. From there we backtracked a bit and started south towards Young, AZ. The day was beautiful with clouds caused by the monsoon season in Arizona. We did get some rain at…
Feb. 28, Thursday We have been having crazy weather in the Valley of the Sun, Phoenix, AZ this past two months. In late January we had 4 straight days of rain, totaling up to 2 inches. On Wednesday we had snow in northeastern Phoenix, Scottsdale, Cave Creek (actually no measurable amount at Sky Harbor Airport).…
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