The third and final island we visited on our trip to Hawaii was the Big Island. Our first afternoon there mostly consisted of driving from Kona to Volcano which is where we stayed the first 2 nights. We did one stop on the way which was Punalu’u Black Sand Beach […]
The second Island we visited was Maui. In Maui we started with the Road to Hana. We made multiple stops including the Garden of Eden, Ke’anae including Aunt Sandy’s Banana Bread, Pua’a Kaa State Wayside Park, Coconut Glen’s Ice Cream, and Kahuna Gardens. We ended the day at Wai’anapanapa State […]
Back from a 2 week trip to Hawaii. It is definitely a special place with so much to see and do despite its small size. We spent the fist 3 1/2 days on Oahu. My big mistake was staying in downtown Honolulu. It was nice being able to see Diamond […]
The goal of returning to the Tetons for one night before returning home is that we were flying out of Jackson so it just made it easier. We decided our goal for our last day was to see moose as we had not seen any to this point of the […]
June 9th continued. After driving over the snowy Dunraven Pass we arrived in the canyon area. Since it was now close to midday it was fairly busy but we stopped at Lookout Point and Red Rock Trail and then Inspiration Point. We continued through Hayden Valley heading towards our cabin […]
June 7th continued. We made our way through an about 15 minute construction delay and next stopped at the terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs. We walked most of the area starting at the top. They seem much drier than at my last visit (13 years ago). In Mammoth there were […]
On to Yellowstone National Park. June 5th First main stop was West Thumb Geyser Basin. It’s a nice introduction to the Geyser areas. As it was the middle of the day and we would be staying at Old Faithful Inn, we bypassed that area and headed to the Black Sand […]
We have just returned from a family vacation to Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. We had a great time and saw a lot of great sites and interesting wildlife. We even got some nice snow in June which was a bit unexpected but was a […]
We have just returned from a Spring Break trip with the kids to the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas National Park. For those of you not familiar, we live in Tampa, so the trip started with a long drive, about 7 hours. Luckily we have a van with a tv […]
There is a ton of wildlife in Costa Rica. Most people want to see the sloths for sure, but there are also 4 types of monkeys. There is a huge variety of bird life including hummingbirds to toucans. These two photos were both taken in the Osa Peninsula, one of […]