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Category: Sight Seeing

  • The Itsy Bitsy Spider

    Summit Lake State Park, IN, July 2026 looks HUGE with a macro photography lens. The lens is at 55mm or 42 mm with 31 mm of extension tubes. The magnification is between about 0.85x and 1.05x. This means that the spider image on the 22.3 mm x 14.8 mm R7 sensor is 85% to 105%…

  • Canada Goose Flash Mob

    Summit Lake State Park, IN, July 2026 Indiana (and Illinois) have terrible roads. You would think that, at least, the interstates would be good, but they resemble a cheese grater more than a road. Maybe each state has a greater purpose. Maybe, God created Indiana and Illinois to grate mozzarella for a giant pizza, hopefully,…

  • Best Rest Stop in the USA?

    Well, aside from Buc-ees… At 133 miles into our latest move, we stopped at a rest stop in Ohio for the bathrooms and to feed the cats. Kate spoke to one of the maintenance staff that said that it is only about a year old. It is also manned 24/7. It is one of the…

  • It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Flying Lobster?

    Findley State Park, OH, July 2026 Findley State Park has as active Naturalist that runs various weekly programs. These include kayaking, stand-up paddle boarding, and Gyotaku. What is Gyotaku? It is Japanese fish printing. John saw this last year, but we did not have time to do it. Having not looked it up, we thought…

  • Cuyahoga Valley National Park

    Cuyahoga Valley National Park, OH, July 2026 We planned to go to Cuyahoga Valley National Park to bike on the canal trail. (It is not pronounced the way it looks; the proper pronunciation is Kai-uh-how-guh.) The name is Native American for “Crooked River”. (John wonders if they call the leaders of our country Cuyopoliticans?) The…

  • Findley State Park Blue Trail

    Wellington, OH, July 2026 We got back from Lorain, Ohio and both decided on a nap since we stayed up late and got up early. Well for me, the nap didn’t happen. Too many interruptions like locking the trailer door and Mackie deciding to take a big dump that stunk up the bedroom. (The last…

  • Lorain Lighthouse Fireworks

    Lorain Lighthouse, OH, July 2026 You are thinking – fireworks, shmireworks. From our estimation, the lighthouse fireworks were not the best fireworks show we have seen. We have been to some places, such as Washington, D.C. and Disney World, that have truly spectacular fireworks shows. It was unique, and it is worth doing at least…

  • Lorain Lighthouse Tour

    Lorain Lighthouse, OH, July 2026 There were over 800 photos taken for this trip, but most of them were for the fireworks. We have pared it down to a little over 200 photos, and it will probably be pared down more. We will split this into the fireworks and everything else. This is the everything…

  • Manassas National Battlefield Park

    Manassas, VA, June 2026 It appears we forgot to post this, we were to busy to post this, or thought the postcard was enough. It was probably a combination of the first and second one. When we were at Fairfax Lake Park, we stopped by Bull Run State Park to see if it would work…

  • The Residents Behave No Better Than Animals!

    West Branch State Park, OH, June 2026 We saw a Baltimore Oriole the second day at the park. We very seldom see them, and he was brilliant orange. We walked the park a few times with the camera looking for him, but we never saw him again. One of the campers put out a bird…