Purchases

My Canon Rebel K2 is supposed to be delivered to my parents house today which means I’ll have it Saturday. I can’t wait. Hopefully the weather will be interesting on Saturday because I am planning to go out right after class and take a roll of pictures, getting to know the camera and [...]

The Final Leg of The Trip

There isn’t too much to remember from the final leg of the trip. We drove in to Chicago mid afternoon and found the hostel where we would be staying. Got our room, which was poor, but I know if we tried to stay in any hotel close by it would have been mass more and [...]

Devil’s Tower and Mt. Rushmore

Rounding the bend and heading home. That’s what it felt like after leaving Yellowstone. No more national parks to check out, just a few little stops on the way to Chicago and then on home. It was a mixture of feelings. I loved seeing all the sites but there was also a part of me [...]

We Are All Danes Now

Here is an interesting Op-Ed by Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe, We Are All Danes Now. Though it’s not bringing anything new to the discussion, it is voicing the opinion of many Europeans and North Americans who are adament believers in the freedom of speech and fed up with ultra sensitive people willing to [...]

Yellowstone National Park

So we left the San Francisco area around 3 or 4 and headed east on i-80. And began our 18 hour journey through Sacramento, Reno, Salt Lake City and then north on i-15 to Yellowstone National Park. Kelli started the first leg of the trip, until around 11:30 or 12:00 if I can remember correctly. [...]

San Francisco

It seemed too soon that we had to leave Yosemite and continue on with our trip to the farthest point we had planned, San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean. It was only a couple hours drive and compared to some of the drives we had been doing before, this was pretty easy.

We both knew [...]

Yosemite National Park

I will attempt to remember Yosemite National Park:
Yosemite was the highest tourist destination of the whole trip. Knowing that, I think we would have rather had spent our days there during the week but sometimes you can’t plan it out perfectly and we ended up staying there over a weekend. It actually ended up being [...]

Sequoia National Park

Departing Zion National Park, we headed southwest to Las Vegas. When we got to the main strip I was very impressed with the hotels and how crazy they were but I was even more impressed when we got our room and were able to take showers. It was the first shower in 5 days, after [...]