Traveling via AMTRAK through 16 states in 16 days. 110 hrs and 5 nights on a train. Visiting some of the best parks in the world. We will be hiking and driving on the road to the sun. Hopefully we will have a few stories to tell you here along with a lot of great photos.
I understand that some of you were having problems with the gallery on your desktops. I think that I was able to correct the problem. If you have only been looking at the pic s with your phone you really should look at them on a bigger screen. I have been shooting in high Def…
We are back on the train today. We leave from Portland and head to Sacremento overnight. We have a sleeper car which makes the trip much better. We change trains in Sacremento and head for Reno. This should be a very senic part of the trip as we go through the Donner pass.
The views you get driving around this lake are incomparable. The one big problem is on the weekends people come from every direction. Every available spot along the road has a car parked on it. We took a short 2.4 mile hike around an alpine lake before we left for the train. right now we…
We are at our refueling stop in Minot ND. We left Chicago in the early afternoon yesterday and we traveled due north twards Wisconsin. Unfortunately it got a little cloudy so the pics are not great(see gallery). Things got very interesting when we reached the Dells. This is a vacation area for people in this…
The weather and or the weatherman has not been our best friend the last two days. Yesterday the weather kept us from doing any hiking. Today we were able to visit Lake Junaluska again and take the 4 mile trail around the lake. The weatherman said it would rain all afternoon and at this point…
Well we made it home in time to prep for hurricane Irma. The boats are all tide down and all the outdoor furniture is put away. We left the island yesterday and we are in Greensboro waiting out the storm. Hope for the best. I hope to have time to edit the pics this week…