Category Archives: travel
Redwoods Trip I: The Plan
Wendy wanted to see the redwoods. So for our annual June vacation, I looked into returning to northernmost coastal California, where 18 years earlier I had walked among the tallest trees on Earth. There are actually three distinct redwood species: … Continue reading
Driving an $80,000 SUV
Wendy and I flew to southwestern Oregon in early June. We needed a rental vehicle I could drive over to the coast and down to the Redwoods in northwestern California, and when I went hunting online, the cheapest rental at … Continue reading
Rattling Around
March 2024 | Photo Album Table Rock Lake, in far northwestern Arkansas and southwestern Missouri, was completed in 1958. My parents purchased a tiny vacation home near its western end a decade later, in a county with many ties to … Continue reading
Two Hollers & Haunting Harmonies
Wendy and I spent part of our Spring Break at the Holiday Island retirement community in Arkansas. More on that will come in a later post; this tale is about our trips through two different hollers on the way there … Continue reading
Return to Bromide Hill
December 20-22, 2023 | Photo Album Sulphur Springs Reservation was established in the Chickasaw Nation of Indian Territory in 1902, and it became Platt National Park in 1906. Its national park status was dependent on a deal made with the … Continue reading
Meador Manor 