Month: June 2019

My daughter still talks fondly about the camping trips we took when she was a child. Now in her 30s, her favorite memory is of the time a blue jay swooped out of a nearby Giant Sequoia tree and snatched her breakfast pastry off the campsite picnic table. Source

Weezie Nielson is the park operator and does administration at Mabel Lake Provincial Park near Lumby. Jeff is the park manager. For the last three years the couple have been working hard to make the provincial park a treasure to visit. And for the most part, their efforts are paying off. Source

We love finding strange museums in our travels around the country, and we have discovered some real finds as we explore this great land of ours. Here are fifteen of my favorites, in no particular order. Source

"No matter the location, citizens in every part of our Nation can find their own outdoor adventure and, in doing so, improve their health, deepen connections with their families and communities, and experience their country in new and exciting ways," Trump wrote. Source

When we moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado in the mid-’90s, we couldn’t wait to take our first trip to the mountains. I’m not sure why or how we picked Crested Butte for our first Rocky Mountain destination, but Crested Butte it was. Source

If there’s one thing that our journey to Alaska taught us once and for all, it’s that the situation is always the boss. It was an important lesson but we could have done without the hassles or stress. At our lowest emotional points on the Alcan, we wished we had chosen to workamp in Lake City, Colorado instead. Source

We wanted to get a little hiking in before it got too hot on the weekend, so on Friday morning we packed a lunch and set out for Pilot Mountain State Park, just a few miles south of us. Source

As we’ve been traveling across America this year, we’ve encountered a lot of people doing the same thing – but by automobile. Source

I replaced the tail light mounting brackets and lenses with identical looking replacement parts from a company called Bargman. The task involved unscrewing and removing the old brackets, then cleaning off the old silicone sealant. Source

Millennials are less wealthy than previous generations were at their age at any point between 1989 and 2007, according to The Economist, which cited a recent paper by the Brookings Institution. Source