My friend, Sandy Thomas, is a world traveler, and when she shared with me her last adventure, I asked if she’d be willing to share, since travel is one of my focus areas. An amazing experience! Being with the gorillas in their natural habitat has always been a dream of mind. Not sure why... perhaps because as a child King Kong was my imaginary playmate. (True, don't laugh.) Each time my travel buddies and I looked at excursions to see the mountain gorillas, Uganda and Rwanda Continue Reading
Hanging On By A Thread – Arches National Park
Look closely - can you find the rappeler? Finally, in the last hour of the last park on our national park tour, we came upon what we’d been looking for since we entered the parks a few days earlier. In the distance, hanging on by a thread – rock climbers. Or in this case, a single climber rappelling with such speed, I could barely capture the photo. As I walked closer, I could tell it was a woman with her husband, son and dog at the bottom waiting for her. The Arches Continue Reading
Breathless in Bryce
Bryce Canyon National Park took my breath away. The stars are the hoodoos (odd-shaped pillars of rock left standing from the forces of erosion), and from the first time I saw photographs of the terrain many years ago, I knew I wanted to visit. It is a stunning landscape. But at an altitude of 9100 feet, I was not functioning at my best (point of reference – a mile is 5280 feet). Lansing is 820 feet, Madison is 741 feet! The thin air caught both of us just trying to catch our breath a bit, Continue Reading
Wrapped in Rock – Zion National Park
As soon as we entered the park, I felt her reach out to me as if to say welcome; strong and chiseled, but softened by time and weather. For twelve miles, we navigated the narrow road, with switchbacks and tunnels, but she was never far from my side. At times, I could reach out the window and almost scrape my knuckles, she was that close. This was Zion National Park, and I felt as if I was wrapped in rock, in a gentle, caressing kind of way.Zion is an interactive Continue Reading