Glacier National Park “…a man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long […]
Glacier National Park View Larger Map Day One Well I was stoked to have finally made it to the edge of Glacier National Park after all these years! This is truly a place of superlatives. Here are just a few facts. Glacier became our eighth national park in 1910 and encompasses over one million […]
Over the last two weeks, I have received three versions of the A to Z meme that is making its way around the travel blogging community. After reading the review of my virtual buddy Stephanie of The Travel Chica and commenting her post, she challenged me to write one. So here goes my A to Z Travel Review […]
ONWARD TO GLACIER NATIONAL PARK Or, Go North Young Man (with apologies to Horace Greely) View Larger Map After a day leisurely driving past Lake Yellowstone and through Grand Teton National Park followed by a night in Jackson Hole, the decision was made to continue onward to Glacier National Park. This was about my first […]
Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone is the world’s first national park having been established in 1872 by Ulysses S. Grant. Yes, this was the model not only for the U.S. National Park Service, but for the national parks I recently explored in Costa Rica and much of Latin America. A land of superlatives, it well […]
The Road to Yellowstone National Park Rather than follow the boring interstate through Nevada, I planned this route over US395 and across US20 instead. At 961 miles (Google Maps) some overnight breaks were certain. I stopped in the old mining city of Susanville where I caught US395. First stop, Goose Lake. Why? Because it is […]
Lassen Volcanic National Park The Road Trip has been an American tradition since the end of World War Two. It has been celebrated in song (…get your kicks on Route 66) and extolled in movies and popular culture ever since. After two months home from Latin America and with summer in its full glory, I […]
One of the first places I often visit in a new city is the mercada central or central market. These are great places to buy fresh food and local delicacies at very reasonable prices. Guatemala City has a sizable central market near the National Palace and I visited there for lunch my first day in […]
When I was in Guatemala, I rode everywhere on the Chicken Buses. They were noisy, usually crowded, and the paint jobs were legendary. It seemed that every bus was in unofficial competition to see who could have the most outrageous paint, the most chrome and the wildest theme. Once I crossed into El Salvador and […]
–Day 9-San Cristobal Island– Well the eight day incredible boat trip has regrettably ended; however, I still have several days at liberty in the Galapagos before my flight back to Quito. Jackson, Guy and I have decided to hang together for a couple more days. We take a three hour fast boat trip to San […]