America

Georgia Guidestones

Georgia Guidestones

Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason

September 11 Memorial and Museum

September 11 Memorial and Museum

“No day shall erase you from the memory of time.”

Chihuly at Biltmore - Chihuly Nights

Chihuly at Biltmore - Chihuly Nights

I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color

in a way they have never experienced. - Dale Chihuly

The Long Road Home

The Long Road Home

“What every one of us looks for, but damn few of us gets to see...is just what's over the far horizon.

 The trick is ... to know it when you see it, and an even bigger trick ... is to know what to do about it when you find it.” – From “Last of the Dogmen”

Another Day with Dale Chihuly – Magic & Light

Another Day with Dale Chihuly – Magic & Light

“Glass is the most magical of all materials.  It transmits light in a special way."
-Dale Chihuly

Oklahoma City – Revisited Part 2 - Twin Fountains RV Resort

Oklahoma City – Revisited Part 2 - Twin Fountains RV Resort

“We have been “Traveling Life’s Highways” (seeing America through the eyes of a veteran) over 23,000 miles around the United States and Canada.  For almost five months, we have stayed in over 100 RV resorts including: National Parks, KOA, Good Sam, and many mom and pop campgrounds.  Twin Fountains RV Resort is the best that we have found.”

Oklahoma City – Revisited – Part 1

Oklahoma City – Revisited – Part 1

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma.  

Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger. - Brad Henry

Mount Rushmore National Monument - South Dakota

Mount Rushmore National Monument - South Dakota

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.

It’s the life in your years. ― Abraham Lincoln

Devils Tower National Monument - Wyoming

Devils Tower National Monument - Wyoming

"If I croak while I’m doing this, at least I’ll die doing something I wanted to do, and I’ve had a good and long run.” - Dr. Bill Weber, 91 said the climb was tougher than he expected.  At points, he wondered if he would make it. (Sept 22, 2018 - Breaks the climbing record as oldest to climb Devils Tower)

Grand Tetons National Park Wyoming

Grand Tetons National Park Wyoming

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people.  I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’” Sylvia Path

Yellowstone National Park – Day 3

Yellowstone National Park – Day 3

“It spouted at regular intervals nine times during our stay, the columns of boiling water being thrown from ninety to one hundred and twenty-five feet at each discharge, which lasted from fifteen to twenty minutes. We gave it the name of "Old Faithful."

- Nathaniel P. Langford wrote in his 1871 Scribner's account of the expedition

Yellowstone National Park - Day 2

Yellowstone National Park - Day 2

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.” – John Muir

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom." – Theodore Roosevelt

Glacier National Park & Livingston, Montana

Glacier National Park & Livingston, Montana

“Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan.  This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.” (Ellen Meloy)

Driving South through Canada's Yukon, British Columbia, and Alberta

Driving South through Canada's Yukon, British Columbia, and Alberta

The view that lay before us in the evening light was one that does not often fall to the lot of modern mountaineers.  A new world was spread at our feet: to the westward stretched a vast ice-field probably never before seen by the human eye, and surrounded by entirely unknown, unnamed and unclimbed peaks. - July 1898, British explorer J. Norman Collie

Top of the World Highway

Top of the World Highway

“When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end.  

So it’s not so much which road you take, as how you take it.”

Loony Island, Charlie Hamilton’s Place

Loony Island, Charlie Hamilton’s Place

“A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.”

Canada/Alaska Drive North

Canada/Alaska Drive North

“It's a big world out there; it would be a shame not to experience it.”

Chihuly Garden and Glass

Chihuly Garden and Glass

“I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color

in a way they have never experienced.” – Dale Chihuly

Mount St. Helens, Washington

Mount St. Helens, Washington

“Clouds of hot ash made up of pulverized rock were belched twelve miles into the sky. Giant mud slides, composed of melted snow mixed with ash and propelled by waves of super heated gas erupting out of the crater, rumbled down the slopes and crashed through valleys, leaving millions of trees knocked down in rows, as though a giant had been playing pick-up sticks.” – Time Magazine