This road was driven on May 13, 2022 By 1870 the vast area of the Escalante wilderness between the Utah towns of Torrey and Escalante was the last part of the continental United States still uncharted. In 1872 John Wesley Powel was accompanied by his sister Ellen Thompson, who served as botanist, on his second … More Route 12 and Escalante Wilderness
On the day we moved toward Bryce Canyon NP we had no reserved campsite so we wanted to arrive at Kodachrome State Park early. We got an early start, skipping breakfast and as soon as we had cell tower service, Toni began looking for breakfast café. She found one in the little community of Hatch, … More Bryce Canyon NP
On our last day near Kanab, Utah we visited the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, conceived in 1984 by a group of human good friends who believed that each of their animal best friends has a story to tell – and that they were all worth saving from a premature death. Thus their dream of a … More Kanab to Zion NP
This is a special post for you bird lovers out there. Toni and I spent a long week with Mark Newman a college friend of mine. He is officially an Alaska resident who spends every winter in the desert SW and thanks to his advanced efforts in Portal (a birding haven) we had a prime … More Arizona Bird List seen this trip
As we approached Page, AZ a quick stop at the Antelope Canyon Navaho Tours field office assured us that we would be able to schedule a guided walk through the Upper Antelope Canyon the next day. After setting up camp in Wahweap CG we headed for the Toadstool formation in the last hours of daylight. … More Southern Utah and the Arizona Strip
Waking up in a desert surrounded by thousands of Saguaro cacti is a unique experience and only enhanced by the call of a busy Cactus Wren feeding her babies in a nest burrow nearby. The cacti are in bloom and we did not see the Lesser Long-nosed Bats which arrive during the dark to pollinate … More More Arizona
As I begin writing this blog post I am sitting in the desert garden of friends Bonnie & Mike in Vail, AZ. The birds are coming to the feeders again (after scattering at the presence of a Bobcat-no pic), the chimes are serenading me as the wind blows and the temperature is heading toward the … More Texas to Arizona
As we dipped south of the South Carolina border with Georgia, we thought it would be nice to spend the day in the city of Savannah. We parked the car, caught an Uber ride to Forsyth Park and then walked back by way of Bull Street. It wasn’t very exciting except for the two young … More Georgia to Texas
“The demographic geography of America was shaped largely by racial terror. A landscape, the legal architecture that codified racial hierarchy, continued to shape life in this country. This society, this country, this nation has work to do to fully overcome the history and legacy of slavery. At the Legacy Museum we believe an important experience … More An invitation to the Legacy Museum, Montgomery, AL
After a week of the worst “mud season roads” I have seen in the last 30 years it turned cold again and we made a break for southern US before another weather front moved in. We did end up modifying our travel plans because of freezing rain and snow along the inland route we had … More “South to Georgia”
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