Category: Travel

Acadia National Park: July 1, 2013

We hiked four peak/mountains (Bald Peak, Parkman Mountain, Sargent Mountain, Gilmore Peak) in 3.5 hours our first day. The trails were beautiful, but slick, and provided lots of natural drinking water for the dogs. The most challenging thing about this hike was having to slowly and carefully pick our way along the springs and running…

Images of Bandelier

Some things never fundamentally change, and I’m glad the Bandelier National Monument is one of them. Due to the flash flood that hit them in August 2011 (thanks to the fire of April 2011), parking is no longer allowed at the visitor’s center unless you arrive before 9:00 or after 3:00. Since its so far…

New Mexico Mish Mash

Our trip could not have started out better. We discovered that the Mustang Club was being hosted at our hotel. Lou was really grooving on all that muscle being close enough to touch. No actual touching, though, because the owners spent hours polishing not only the bodies but the engines to a high shine. Just…