Our goal in visiting the Snowy Range in southern Wyoming was to hike the trail up to Medicine Bow Peak. That was an amazing hike, but looking for a place to eat breakfast early on the morning of the hike,…
I finally have a logical reason why we are so impacted by the beauty of the wilderness. In the wilderness, our hearts get a taste of
The Southern Oregon Coastline isn’t all rocks and sea stacks. In fact, Floras Lake Beach is very much as sandy as the east coast. It’s also nearly empty of people, unlike the more northerly sand beaches. Still, it offers sights…
The geese are flying south for the winter It signals the changing of the season The days will grow cooler The days will grow shorter
I don’t necessarily seek out historical places to visit – it’s often an outcome of being in the area and on a whim stopping by (like the Flume Trail or Warren Peak, both in Wyoming). Other times we do go…
Last week, we talked about taking the Brewer Creek Trail, then continuing up a social trail to Butte 9000 high on the side of Mt. Shasta (Butte 9000 isn’t its official title – in fact, you probably will have trouble…
You will go out in joy… and be led forth in peace;
I’m convinced that most of Mt. Shasta’s trails aren’t trails at all, but rather routes that more or less might take you to someplace that might be exciting to be. Maybe it was just the directions I had, but they’d…
Psalm 95:1-4 “Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. For the Lord is the…
The John Deere Pavilion on the Illinois / Iowa border not-that-far from I-80 is certainly an attraction worth seeing! It’s what little boys dream of and maybe we’ve all secretly wanted to do for most of our lives: You get…