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Cold in Quebec, Canada

These photos are from last year when we visited the Ice Hotel and then Quebec City, Canada. We had several days around 0 degrees which doesn’t sound so bad compared to what is coming in the northern United States this week

Bixby Bridge Afternoon, Big Sur, California
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California Travel

It’s sad to hear of all of the damage being done by the fires out in California. Some of the places that we traveled on our trip last year have definitely been affected. On our trip we tried to cover a lot of Southern California from San Diego up to […]

Bixby Creek Bridge, Big Sur, California
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California Travel

It’s hard to believe that our California trip was over a year ago. We really enjoyed our trip and got to see a lot. The highlights were the Big Sur area which was beautiful despite having a big detour from a landslide that closed the Pacific Coast Highway causing a […]

Roughlock Falls Horizontal, Spearfish Canyon, South Dakota
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Spearfish South Dakota

During the week we spent in South Dakota this summer, we spent one day driving around the area of Spearfish, South Dakota. There are several interesting attractions in this area. The kids enjoyed Spearfish Park which had a nice stream (with cold water) running through it. They liked splashing around […]

Sequoia Hide and Seek, Sequoia National Park, California
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Sequoia National Park

Sequoia National Park was high on the list of places I wanted to see when planning our California trip. The trees were amazing. It is hard to describe how huge they are. It is also very hard to capture their size in a photograph. I got a few photographs from […]

Kings Canyon Pano, Kings Canyon National Park, California
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Kings Canyon National Park

During our trip to California we visited several national parks including the adjoining Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park. Sequoia National Park was on the list of my must see places on our trip and we definitely enjoyed seeing the massive trees. Kings Canyon however I had barely […]

Buffalo and Longhorns at Devils Tower, Devil's Tower National Monument, Wyoming
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Devil’s Tower National Monument

On our recent family vacation to South Dakota/Minnesota, we made a side trip into Wyoming to see Devil’s Tower National Monument. Devil’s Tower is a really unique looking mountain that was used in the filming of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. “Devils Tower (also Bear Lodge Butte[6]) is a […]

Spectacled Owl Pair, Pacuare Lodge, Costa Rica
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More Birds from Costa Rica

I haven’t posted anything in the last two weeks as we were on vacation in South Dakota and Minnesota. We spent some time in Custer State Park, Mount Rushmore, and Badlands National Park and I will have pictures coming soon. In the meantime, here are a few more of the […]

Elephant Seal Fight, San Simeon, California
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Elephant Seal Rookery

One of the best wildlife viewing places we visited during our trip to California last year was the elephant seal rookery. This is on the Pacific Coast Highway just up the road from the Hearst Castle outside of San Simeon. We visited in June and there were a good number […]

Turqouise Waters and Rocks in Costa Rica, Lapa Rios Ecolodge, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
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Costa Rica Views

Our last stop on our Costa Rica trip was in the southern part of the country on the Osa Peninsula. A lot of this peninsula is preserved and hopefully will be protected as it has a high density of wildlife. We stayed at an Ecolodge called Lapa Rios that is […]