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Zion National Park, Utah’s first national park, is located in the southwest portion of the state. It is filled with beautiful steep cream, pink and red cliffs. It offers an easy walk along a river canyon, a narrow slot canyon, as well as many other hiking opportunities. But even if you are not into hiking, […]
Capitol Reef National Park is in south-central Utah in red rock country. It was named for a combination of the eroded, white Navajo sandstone dome that was thought to resemble the U.S. Capitol Dome and the solid wall of steep, red rock barrier that explorers described as a reef of rock. We made a brief […]
One can love Salem Massachusetts for many reasons: The simple beauty of its historic, 17th-century, clapboard, pitched-roof houses, its 18th- and 19th-century brick ship captain and merchant mansions; and its initiative of turning the disadvantages of poor agricultural land and rugged, deep, rocky shoreline into a seafaring powerhouse that was the fifth largest, and of […]
From our many trips to the Finger lakes in New York State, we have eaten and stayed in multiple places. This blog summarizes our experiences, including our most recent in June 2022 visit. Where to Eat in the Finger Lakes The Inn at Taughannock Falls (located in Trumansville, outside Ithaca). The dining room overlooks Cayuga […]
Like many incurious tourists, we thought that Death Valley was a barren place that was best driven across quickly. Boy were we wrong. After we moved to San Francisco we learned that it was one of the best parts of the state in which to see spring wildflowers. The bloom, however, depends on the amount […]
Plymouth Colony reject minister Roger Williams founded Providence Rhode Island in 1636. He created the city (and ultimately the state) in accordance with his philosophy that people should be free to worship as they wish and that the state should have no authority over the church. Providence ended up becoming a haven for a wide […]