As I sat in my hotel room the night before my visit, I was really excited about doing a couple of hikes at the Badlands National Park. I had a ton of pages I printed out in preparation for my visit spread across the bed as I watched some television and devoured a pizza. I […]
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Taking the Oregon Trail to Fort Laramie
I drove north on Interestate 25 through Wyoming easily recalling everything I hate about freeways in the United States. I wanted to get off on a highway and enjoy a bit of the area; after all, I was on vacation and not exactly in a hurry to get anywhere. Fortunately I saw one of those […]
Taking in the Sunset at Mt. Rushmore
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American People. ~ George Washington, first inaugural address, April 30, 1789 I bought my annual National Park pass […]
Touring a Minuteman Missile Silo
“A nuclear-missile silo is one of the quintessential Great Plains objects: to the eye, it is almost nothing, just one or two acres of ground with a concrete slab in the middle and some posts and poles sticking up behind an eight-foot-high Cyclone fence; but to the imagination, it is the end of the world.” […]
Touring Larnach Castle
Businessman William Larnach had his castle built high on the hills of the Otago Peninsula on the South Island of New Zealand between 1871 and 1885 as a residence for his family. To build the large manor home workers had to pull and haul stone up from the bottom of the hill, which is no […]
Hiking at the Devils Tower
See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, the sun, how they move in silence. ~ Mother Teresa The Devils Tower, declared the first national monument in 1906, is one of those places I’m just not sure I can wrap my head around. So much of […]
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