by tdinfl | Oct 23, 2023 | Hiking, National Parks, Nature, Photography, Sightseeing
Bryce Canyon National Park is home to the world’s largest grouping of hoodoos. Hoodoos are the distinctive rock formations found throughout Bryce Canyon. The hoodoos are are pillars of sandstone and other fine-grained sedimentary rock created by the processes of...
by tdinfl | Oct 22, 2023 | Biking, Hiking, National Parks, Nature, Sightseeing, Utah
Zion National Park is Utah’s first national park. It was granted national park status in 1919, after starting out as Mukuntuweap National Monument in 1909. “Mukuntuweap” is the Paiute Indian word for “straight canyon” or “straight river” . The main focus of Zion...
by tdinfl | Mar 8, 2023 | Florida, Nature, Sightseeing, Wildlife
Gatorland is a 110-acre theme park, wildlife preserve, and bird rookery in Florida, located south of Orlando. Gatorland is billed as the “Alligator Capital of the World,” and features thousands of alligators (including rare leucistic alligators),...
by tdinfl | Nov 7, 2022 | Alaska, Hiking, Nature, Sightseeing, Uncategorized
October proved to be a great time to visit Fairbanks, Alaska. Fairbanks is located approximately 350 miles North of Anchorage and 500 miles South of Prudhoe Bay, on the Northern Coast of Alaska. Fairbanks is also located approximately 200 road miles (140 air miles)...
by tdinfl | Sep 14, 2022 | Biking, Boating, Distilleries, Hiking, Scotland, Sightseeing
We’ve done four bike and barge trips now, and they just keep getting better and better! If you aren’t familiar, bike and barges are trips where you live on a boat for the duration of trip but then the boat takes you to several different locations for you...
