Good day for an explosion
It’s not every day you get to see a power plant implode, so I rolled out of bed at o’dark thirty and joined…
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The Big Island, Hawaii
We arrived on “the Big Island” mid-day on an easy inter-island flight through Honolulu. After stopping for groceries and getting settled in we…
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Relax, you’re not on the mainland
It’s a fitting message and one we saw on a bumper sticker our first day driving around Hawaii’s oldest island, Kauai. And with…
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Jojoba Hills in Aguanga, CA
My routine most mornings here has been to go for a walk and listen to a podcast to get the blood flowing in…
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Like kids in a giant sandbox
5:30 a.m. – 81 degrees. It must be the desert air, or maybe the extra oxygen at this elevation. After getting…
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Sunset at Mesquite Flat Dunes, Death Valley
6:30 p.m. – 103 degrees. When I think of desert, I think of sand. Surprisingly less than 1% of the valley is…
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Zabriskie Point and Rhyolite, Death Valley
9:30 a.m. – 91 degrees buy cialis online without prescription . It’s a good thing we got an early start to our day,…
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Artists Palette, Death Valley
8:30 a.m. – 89 degrees in the WORK FROM NO HOME shade. Only in Death Valley National Park. The Artists Palette…
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Devil’s Golf Course, Death Valley
It’s hard to imagine a lake 30 feet deep once covered the valley floor here at Devil’s Golf Course and Badwater Basin. …
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Sunrise over Badwater Basin in Death Valley
5 a.m. – 76 degrees. As you read this, pause for a moment to take in the sounds around you. Listen to…
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Driving the road to hell
OK, we didn’t drive all the way to hell, just to the gate: Death Valley National Park. Traveling in on Highway 190 from…
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Devils Postpile National Monument, CA
Our time at Mono Lake was so beautiful, between the ideal boondocking spot overlooking Mono Lake and 70’s/40’s temperatures, it was very hard…
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Bodie, California
We struck gold in Bodie! Yes, pun very much intended. As far as ghost towns go, this one is a jackpot. The only…
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Tschuss Germany
With our time in Germany drawing to a close, we spent the final night of our three week stay in Frankfurt to be…
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Bad Durkheim, Germany
This is the best Wurstmarkt we’ve ever been to! Of course, it also happens to be the only one. What drew us…
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Strasbourg, France
Today we joined thousands of others visiting the classic tourist sites in Strasbourg, France. This city of about 275,000 people is in…
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Labor Day in Netherlands – Belgium – Germany
It’s striking to me that immediately outside the cities we’ve visited there are fields and pastures, not urban sprawl. It’s so beautiful…
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Maastricht, The Netherlands
After a scenic two hour drive from Vianden, Luxembourg we arrived in Maastricht, the Netherlands and for Jim, we might as well have…
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Vianden, Luxembourg
Today we are planning on the fly and if you’ve traveled with us you know that’s not what we typically do. Our target…
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Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
By mid-afternoon we were satisfied with our highlights of Trier, Germany and drove about an hour southwest to Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. Three languages…
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Trier, Germany
We’re back in Germany, in a small town in Southeastern Germany called Landstuhl. That means back into history, real history. Our morning drive…
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