Category Archives: travel

A break in Bella Vista

Wendy and I spent part of our Spring Break 2023 in Bella Vista, Arkansas. It is the northernmost of a chain of cities in the Northwest Arkansas metropolitan area, NWA, which has more than tripled in population during my lifetime. … Continue reading

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Double Loop, Days 7-10: Trinidad & Capulin

June 15-18, 2022 | Photo Album For our return home, I planned to share with Wendy two places I had visited in 2012 before we began dating: Trinidad and Capulin Volcano. I had recalled them as favorite stops on the … Continue reading

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Double Loop, Days 5-7: Ouray

June 13-15, 2022 | Photo Album Over a decade ago, I drove the San Juan Skyway clockwise out of Durango, spending much of my time, when I wasn’t driving, in Telluride. But on my southward journey back to Durango, I … Continue reading

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Double Loop, Days 4-5: Durango to Ouray

June 12-13, 2022 | Photo Album Bernalillo was already infamous to Wendy and me before we actually stopped there. On a previous trip to Albuquerque and Santa Fe, Trixie the GPS app repeatedly mangled the pronunciation of that small town … Continue reading

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Double Loop, Days 1-4: Kansas & New Mexico

June 9-12, 2022 | Photo Album June is when Wendy and I usually escape Oklahoma for an adventure out west. As the initial Omicron variants of COVID waned, I considered flying to southern Oregon to enjoy the coast and the … Continue reading

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