September 7-13, 2021 The photos will look best if you go to the blog rather than view them in an email, as they get cropped. On September 7 we started on the trip for home with a first day stop in Pennsylvania along I-79. The main stop of the day was at McConnell’s Mill state…
June 5, 2021 Day 6 and 55th Anniversary. Today started early at 7:30 and ended at 10 PM after Day 5 and 6 for a combined 400 miles total driving. So this shows the size of the area of the Palouse. We were on the very east side of Washington state and also in Idaho…
October 15 The Erie Canal was built across New York state from the Hudson River at Albany to Lake Erie at Buffalo (1817-1825). It opened up the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and was the second longest canal (363 miles) in the world at that time. Many locks were built to raise the canal…
June 2019 We embarked on our RV Van trip on May 31 and returned home by July 1, having covered over 5600 miles and 16 states and visited many friends and relatives. These are a few photos of stops along the way. The first stop was an RV park near Albuquerque, NM. It just so…
April 4 and 7, 2019 Part 3: Joshua Tree National Park is in southeastern California and has a diverse landscape. The story is that the Mormons named the tree after a biblical prophet, Joshua with up raised arms. Joshua Trees are part of the Yucca family and grow in elevations from 2000 to 6000 feet.…
April 5, 2019 – CA State Route 58 in northern Carrizo Plain Part 2 of the California wildflower trip. The Carrizo Plain maybe little known except to photographers and hikers as it is very remote with no services for miles. It is located about 40 miles west and slightly north of Bakersfield, CA. This is…
