Last week I wrote about my plans to spend the rest of this season and next season in the Leeward and Windward Islands. The day I was dropping off my…
Months ago my friend found a little waterproof camera floating by his boat. He picked it up and found no photos on it to help determine who it needed to…
Great Tobago Island is a small island laying 4-5 miles west of Jost Van Dyke and north of St John. With is you will find Little Tobago Island, Cable Rock…
Several months ago I had a great group of older guest that wanted nothing more than to sail and snorkel. The best part is they want to do all the…
Over on Water Island in the USVI they show movies on the beach every Monday night during the cruising season. Heidi’s Honeymoon Grill puts this on by stringing a giant…
Before these blogs follow me down island, I wanted to catch up on a few places I visited this year in the Virgin Islands. The first one is Culebra. This…
So this is going to be my last blog about my road trip through California and Arizona and I want to spend it letting you know how amazing of a…
Chiricahua National Monument is a unit within the National Parks System located 36 miles southeast of Willcox, AZ. The highlight within Chiricahua National Monument is the hundreds of column rock…
Fort Bowie National Historic Site is the site of Fort Bowie, which was built in 1862 in order to secure Apache Pass and Springs. It sits in the southeast corner…
I hope you enjoyed reading about Saguro National Park yesterday and learned a lot about those giants like I did. Today’s “photo of the day” is one last photo from…
Think about the southwest right now. What is the first thing that comes to mind? I bet it is a desert scene with a very tall cactus having two arms…
But you do not want to get to close, because it is a cactus after all. Haha. What do you think of it? I found these giants to be amazing…
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is the only place you will find the cactus called organ pipe in the USA, because this is the northern limit of it habitat. They…
Tonto National Monument is in the Superstition Mountains of central Arizona. The area lies on the northeastern edge of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion, an arid habitat with annual rainfall of…
Today’s “photo of the day” is about as Arizona as I could find. I loved everything about this scene and knew it would make a great photo. I hope you…
Prickly pears are actually really tasty, but you have to watch out for the little cactus stickers. I found this patch of fruiting cactus outside Casa Grande, which I will…
Horseshoe Bend is the name for a horseshoe-shaped meander of the Colorado River located near the town of Page, Arizona. It is located slightly downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam,…
On Tuesday I wrote all about my time at Antelope Canyon in northern Arizona near Page and today I want ot share another photo that really shows off the colors,…
On Tuesday I shared my experience at Grand Canyon with you and today I am writing about a canyon in the opposite extreme. Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon outside…
I hope you read my blog yesterday about the Grand Canyon. If you did then you will remember me saying that no amount of words or pictures will prepare someone…
Did you enjoy reading about the northern half of Joshua Tree National Park, which rests in the Mojave desert? What about all the “photos of the day” I have shared?…
Joshua Tree National Park is on the eastern part of southern California and sits at the junction of the Mojave and Colorado deserts. The Mojave desert is the higher of…
As I was hiking to Barker Dam in Joshua Tree National Park I came across this cool old car just sitting in the desert. I am not sure of the…
The view from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is pretty darn stunning and it would be hard to find a better resting spot for President & First Lady Reagan. In…
Who wouldn’t want to walk through the plane that carries the President of the United States? I know I was super excited about it when I fould out how to…
Just look at today’s “photo of the day”! How can it not be a good day if you are riding a rollercoaster on a wooden pier in the southern California…
The scene they have created at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles really gives you an idea of what it might have been like during the last Ice…
Those tusks are at least eight feet long and the skull would take two hands to pick up. Any idea where this is from? On Tuesday I will tell you,…
To be honest, there are not a lot of options :). Due to the amazing size of these trees all the NPS could really do is cut a section out…
Yesterday I wrote all about Sequoia National Park and gave you highlights to look for and a few tips. I also had a photo of the outside of Fallen Monarch,…