Tuesday Photo Challenge – Animals …on the beach

I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to participate in this week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge. However, I might call mine Beach Animals 🙂 These photos were taken along Highway 1, on one of our road trips, soon after my husband’s retirement.  Our first included two weeks, visiting family and friends, and enjoying the beach along the…

Tread Carefully…

It is rattlesnake season.  The temperature is warming up and they are coming out of hibernation.  Although a rattlesnake is not something you want see in your yard, or near your home, in nature they are beautiful and magnificent.  They are a creature that does not seek conflict, but instead prefers to be left alone. …

Travel Destination: Dry Tortugas National Park

In 2012 we flew to Florida and drove down the Florida Keys to Key West. When planing our trip I discovered the Dry Tortugas, located about 70 miles from Key West, and decided to include that in our plans.  The Dry Tortugas is considered an underwater national park, and is 100 square miles in size. …

Travel Destination: 17 Mile Drive-Pebble Beach, CA

Is there ever enough time to do everything? One of my favorite memories on our May road trip up the California coast, was a very brief loop around 17 Mile Drive and our visit to the Pebble Beach Visitor’s Center. Golf being my husband’s passion, I was blessed to share this first time visit with…