Beautiful Places

Dead Horse Point/Canyonlands National Park

Dead Horse Point/Canyonlands National Park

“Let your memory be your travel bag.”

Durango, Ouray and Telluride, Colorado

Durango, Ouray and Telluride, Colorado

“It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”

Mesa Verde National Park

Mesa Verde National Park

“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.”

Driving across Northern New Mexico

Driving across Northern New Mexico

“We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

Bandelier National Monument

Bandelier National Monument

“Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of man.” – George Wherry

Viking Surprise Helicopter Serial Number 64-13670

Viking Surprise Helicopter Serial Number 64-13670

“If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.”

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Angel Fire, New Mexico

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Angel Fire, New Mexico

“When sons or daughters die in battle, parents are confronted with the choice of what they will do to honor the courage and sacrifice of that son or daughter.” – Doc Westphall

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument

“If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.”

Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge

Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”   — Marcel Proust

Oklahoma City Memorial

Oklahoma City Memorial

“The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used.  The problem is not technology.  The problem is the person or persons using it.” - Billy Graham

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

“Cowboys are gentlemen who treat women with respect and work hard.  They use their manners more than any other man would and ride horse and bulls like there is no tomorrow.” - Anonymous

Six Weeks on the Road and Feeling Fine!

Six Weeks on the Road and Feeling Fine!

“Traveling makes one modest — you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
— Gustave Flaubert / Flaubert in Egypt (1849)

ABCon 2018 Memphis, Tennessee

ABCon 2018 Memphis, Tennessee

“A gathering of friends who play games together”

Save the Chimps

Save the Chimps

“Save the Chimps is the world’s largest chimpanzee sanctuary.”

A Brotherhood from Innocent Days Gone By

A Brotherhood from Innocent Days Gone By

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

There’s a little Greek in all of us!

There’s a little Greek in all of us!

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember

and remember more than I have seen.”

Key West, Florida

Key West, Florida

“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds.  When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then.  People don’t have your past to hold against you.  No yesterdays on the road.”   — William Least Heat Moon

Butterflies and Flamingos

Butterflies and Flamingos

“Unexpected finds while traveling is one of the treasures to stay with you long after the journey is over.” – D. Whittington

Interesting People in Key West

Interesting People in Key West

“Traveling is a brutality.  It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.”