Category Archives: travel
Summer Solstice 2025, Part 3: Amarillo
Amarillo, the Spanish word for yellow, is pronounced “ah-muh-ree-yo” but for the town in the center of the Texas panhandle it is commonly pronounced “am-uh-rill-oh” as immortalized in Neil Sedaka’s Is This the Way to Amarillo and George Strait’s Amarillo … Continue reading
Summer Solstice 2025, Part 2: Erick
After leaving OKC, we rolled along Interstate 40 from OKC to Amarillo, Texas. About a decade ago, we visited a couple of attractions along the way: the Heartland of America Museum in Weatherford in 2015 and the Route 66 Museum … Continue reading
Summer Solstice 2025, Part 1: OKC
We barely left town over the 2024-2025 Winter Break, and while we had planned to get away to Oklahoma City during Spring Break, a dust storm led us to just enjoy lunch at one of the two surviving El Chicos … Continue reading
Redwoods Trip VII: Medford and Out
June 8-10, 2024 | Photo Album Having enjoyed several walks in the redwoods, it was time to head back to Medford so that we could catch a flight back home. We packed out of Elk Meadow Cabins and began retracing … Continue reading
Redwoods Trip VI: Prairie Creek Redwoods Walks
June 6-7, 2024 | Moorman Grove Photo Album | Cathedral Loop Photo Album After our initial trek along part of the Cathedral Trees Trail, on subsequent days we had two more walks at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, along with … Continue reading
Meador Manor 