Interesting things

Rainy Day Musings . . . Illusions . . .

Rainy Day Musings . . . Illusions . . .

“The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums.
It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish.  You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages.”

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

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.”

Denali National Park

Denali National Park

"Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.  They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort.  We are a nation rich in rivers." - Charles Kuralt

Key West, Florida to the Arctic Circle, Alaska

Key West, Florida to the Arctic Circle, Alaska

“It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.”

Canada/Alaska Drive North

Canada/Alaska Drive North

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

Campbell River, British Columbia

Campbell River, British Columbia

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

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

Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

“There is no better place to find yourself than sitting by a waterfall

and listening to its music.”