These photos have been on my mind recently. I decided to pull them up and reminisce about our stop in Antiqua in 2008. We cruised the Eastern Caribbean and this was one of five stops. I fell in love with Antigua, I’m not quite sure why. But the water was amazing, and I enjoyed the…
Category: Adventure
Indiana Dunes National Park
Along the very south of Lake Michigan you will find Indiana Dunes National Park. We visited the park towards the end of April and although we didn’t have to fight the summer crowds, we experienced some frigid weather that I didn’t expect when I was planning our trip. I guess because I live in the…
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Our next stop after our “Wall Drug” adventure in the town of Wall, was Badlands National Park. Badlands encompasses 244,000 acres and protects the largest expanse of prairie in the National Park System. The Oglala Lakota called these lands mako sica, meaning “land bad”. The French trappers and traders followed suit by calling this place…
Crazy Horse Memorial: The Story
Seventeen miles from Mount Rushmore is where you will find the largest sculptural undertaking the world has ever known, with a height of 563 feet and a length of 641 feet. However, the story is not so much about the vastness of the sculpture as it is about the people who brought it into existence….
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
I’ve heard of Mount Rushmore most of my life. I’ve admired the unimaginable ability to carve faces into rock. But I’ve never thought about visiting until I realized how close we would be when passing through South Dakota on our recent road trip. I was excited to see the monument and understand how it might…
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