TIL That Beach Logs Do Kill
Mother Nature doesn’t want you goofing off on the Pacific Coast beaches.
Mother Nature doesn’t want you goofing off on the Pacific Coast beaches.
Some of the creeks in Olympic NP look like are from a storybook.
Our National Parks (along with every other tourist destination) suffer from overcrowding. Even some places with infrastructure and thoughtful visitors…
Mt. Rainier is one of those rare places that’s truly difficult to overhype.
I had no idea that this is what the main entrance to Mammoth Cave looked like. It’s so insane.
I was blown away at the beauty above ground at Mammoth Cave National Park.
“American The Beautiful? by Blythe Roberson is a travel book across America’s National Parks but falls short in style and pacing, resembling TikToks instead of traditional travel writing. Despite extensive park visits and commentary on America’s contradictions, the lack of context and background detracts from the experience, unlike works by Bill Bryson.”
On an Eastern National Parks road trip, I got to visit Mammoth Cave National Park. I had no idea what…
As part of a Eastern National Parks road trip, I got to visit Shenandoah National Park in northern Virginia. Here…
On my trip to Dayton, Ohio for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse, I was able to spend some time at…
While visiting Boston, I got to walk up to Bunker Hill (i.e., the one battle that every American kid learns…
I was able to visit one of Georgia’s best places – the Cumberland Island National Seashore. It is one of…
I got to talk with the US Forest Service’s Wilderness & Trails Technician for the Conasauga District in the Chattahoochee…
My grandparents took my Dad & Uncle through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the mid-1960s. This is a…
I visited Death Valley National Park in January 2018 as a side trip on my business trip to Las Vegas….
Congaree National Park protects 30,000+ acres of bottomland forest in South Carolina. Even though it’s not in the “top tier”…
In April, my brother-in-law, brother, my son, and myself all went on a 2 night backpacking trip to the Great…
In late July, my oldest son and I took a trip to Macon, GA to explore the Ocmulgee National Monument.
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