National Monument

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”

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

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