Category: States
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Gully Creek Trail
Thursday, August 6, 2020 We went fishing at the golf course pond in the morning with no luck again, but the kids enjoy it. I am totally surprised at how Melissa likes it. She casts well and shows a lot of patience. The top-rated hike in the area is Gully Creek at Cumberland Knob in…
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Galax, Virginia: Golf, Fishing, Biking New River Trail
Wednesday August 5, 2020 There is a fishing pond on the golf course, so Josh and I walked over to give it a try. It wasn’t long before Melissa came to join us. I was impressed by her interest, then by her patience and observation. However, we had no luck. The pond was a bit…
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Galax, Virginia
First I apologize for all the crazy emails you got from the blog. I tried for three days to change the theme (of which there are thousands). I would like to tweak a few of the settings this theme doesn’t allow me to do. I finally gave up and switched back to the old one,…
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Hall County Park to Huntington, West Virginia
Saturday, July 25, 2020 I woke to the sounds of a quail calling. What a wonderful sound that is rarely heard today. Then a flight of geese flew over calling. I didn’t have much time, but I wanted to go for a walk and see what this park is all about. It is a county…
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Drive From Casper, Wyoming to Hall County Park in Grand Island, Nebraska
Friday, July 24, 2020 I left the gravel, Casper KOA at 9:00, late for me, got on I25 south, later turning east on Rt. 26 for Fort Laramie and zig-zagged to I80. I have heard people complain about Nebraska being a boring drive, but I think it is very pretty with the beautiful Platte River,…
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Walking Pleasant Creek Road in Capital Reef National Park
Saturday, July11, 2020 There is only one rational time to hike in Utah in July, and that is early. I slept in this morning until 6:30, made coffee, grabbed two Cliff bars and the cameras and took off. It’s an hour drive to the end of The Scenic Drive, where I had decided to walk…
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Cathedral Valley, Capital Reef National Park
July 9, 2020 50 degrees in the morning. 92 degrees in afternoon, sunny all day At 6:00 AM I drove The Scenic Drive to take pictures. I stopped for coffee at a place whose name I can’t remember not, but It’s east of the Phillips 66 station, and they have meat pies. I was too early…
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Capital Reef National Park: The Scenic Drive and The Goosenecks
Early morning and sunset pictures from a stop called The Goosenecks and along The Scenic Drive through the center of the park. Capitol Reef encompasses the Waterpocket Fold, a warp in the earth’s crust that is 65 million years old. It is the largest exposed monocline in North America. In this fold, newer and older layers of earth folded over each…
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The Loneliest Road, Capital Reef National Park: The Fremont River Trail and Capital Gorge Trail.
Exploring “The Scenic Drive”, I walked through Fruita where Mormons settled and farmed. Of course Native Americans had been coming here for thousands of years. The Fremont River gives it wonderful, cold, clear water. Bighorn sheep have thrived here, and deer just walk around the park. I wandered through the orchard next to the campground,…
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The Loneliest Road: The Colorado River
July 5, 2020 It was a beautiful morning, 66 degrees with a nice breeze. I enjoyed sitting in the shade, posting, reading emails and studying what is down the road. I saw our campground hosts, a nice young couple who are teachers in Minnesota, and asked if I could move across the street. They said…