Our tour of the south continued today with a trip to Charleston, South Carolina. We both really liked Savannah and were looking forward to checking out another classic southern city.
A Memphis Zoo review (spoiler: it was the best day ever!)
Hello from Memphis, Tennessee! This morning we woke up to chilly temps and foggy, raw weather in Hot Springs. After breakfast we hit the road for a relatively quick 2.5-hour drive to Memphis.
A museum in the desert, of sorts
This will be a short post because I just finished sorting through about a thousand photos of hummingbirds (!), and now it’s late. Today we hung out at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. Lori came across it online yesterday, and it…
Birds & bees of Saguaro National Park
We spent our first day in Tucson, Arizona, touring the eastern half of Saguaro National Park. This is easily the strangest national park we’ve visited so far. It’s essentially just miles and miles of saguaro cacti (and the various critters that live…
Walking among the ancient giants of Sequoia National Park
Today we ventured into Sequoia National Park to pay homage to the great kings of the forest. Not lions or tigers or bears (thank goodness)…but the ancient trees that give the park its name. Billy and I visited the California…
Hiking the Needles
Here we are at Day 26! The trip odometer passed 7,000 miles this morning on our way to Canyonlands National Park in Utah. It’s hard to believe that we have been on the road for almost a full month. Time is…
Lovely Lamar and magnificent Mammoth Hot Springs
Three days in Yellowstone and not one bear! This is a little shocking since Yellowstone is known for its constant “bear jams” and relatively high population of grizzlies and black bears.
Want to see bison? Head to Yellowstone!
Welcome to Day 18. It started innocently enough…us looking for a good cup of coffee to help us wake up on our way to Yellowstone.
Yellowstone is a park ruled by bison
(Yes, I know that’s a moose in the featured image!)
Searching for Inspiration (Point), moose, and ice cream
We finally had a warm (relatively), sunny day at Grand Teton National Park today. So we headed out for some hiking!