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Yellowstone National Park Day 7
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Today’s plan was to get things done around the trailer and visit the Fishing Bridge Visitor Center. The fishing Bridge Visitor Center was built in 1930 / 1931. The structure helped define what was called the National Park Service Rustic style. This building design was then used in other…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 3
Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 We’ve had quite an experience between last night and today. Unfortunately, it does not involve wild animals. Last night, the surge protector turned off our electricity twice due to low power. We decided to talk to the folks in the office who said it was because too much power…
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Bighorn National Forest: Part 1
Bighorn National Forest, WY, May 2025 At a population of 4,400, Buffalo is one of the largest cities we have stayed in this year. Okay, that is stretching it a bit. We did stay in Denver, CO and just south of Oklahoma City, OK, which are large cities. We have also stayed in several smaller…
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Rocky Mountain National Park
Estes Park, CO, April 2025 Rocky Mountain National Park is about 35 miles west of Longmont, CO. (Longmont is about 40 miles north of Denver.) Due to the winding roads, the drive to the park takes about an hour from Longmont. Some of the views on the drive were stunning. To get to the eastern…
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Butterfield Hiking Trail
Cedar Bluff State Park, KS, April 2025 The trail was in the south are of the reservoir and trailhead was right next to the Park Office on the other side of Pa’s Pond which is a youth and disabled stocked fishing pond. The trail has multiple stopping points with details about the reservoir, plants, and…
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Agave Ridge Nature Trail
Cedar Bluff State Park, KS, April 2025 Agave Ridge Nature Trail has a 1 mile loop and a longer 5.4 mile loop that includes the 1 mile loop. (FYI, the pamphlet pdfs will probably try to download.) Here is a pdf version of the pamphlet for the hiking trail. While looking for that, I found…
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Archery and BMX Tack – Cedar Bluff State Park, KS
Cedar Bluff State Park, KS, April 2025 Cedar Bluff State Park, KS has many outdoor activities including an archery range and BMX track. Yesterday, we bought new arrows so that John could test out the range. Today was a perfect day for practice. Little wind (that is for Kansas) and sunny. The hill behind the…
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Yesteryear Museum or Tractor Cemetary
Salina, KS, April 2025 Driving into the park, the first thing we saw was a sign stating “Museum” and a lot of rusty old farm equipment. I was wonderful if it was a tractor museum or cemetery. Turns out it was a “Yesteryear Museum”. I believe the building in the far back also had antique…
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Day 1 – Lake Thunderbird State Park, OK Sunset
Lake Thunderbird State Park, OK, March 2025 We have a great view of the lake from our trailer dining room take. Though these pictures were taken as we were talking around the park.
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Rhema Christmas Light
Broken Arrow, OK (Click here for a high-res panorama. You will have to go back to return here.) Note: There are multiple images and videos of moderate to large size that might take some time to load. We are trying a static cover image for the video to make the page load faster. If you…