The MLK Memorial and Other Newer Attractions in Washington, D.C.

Beyond the new Martin Luther King Memorial, other newer memorials and attractions to see in Washington DC include the WWII Memorial, Museum of the American Indian, International Spy Museum, Women in Military Service, FDR Memorial, Vietnam War Memorial, and Korean War Memorial.

California’s Yosemite National Park

California’s Yosemite National Park pleases with its Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, El Capitan, Glacier Point, Ahwahnee, waterfalls, camping, and sightseeing,

California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park

The explosion of northern California’s Lassen Peak on May 30, 1914 far exceeded the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington state. Both are part of the Cascade chain of fire mountains stretching down the west coast. The Redding and Shasta region adjacent to Lassen also poses many travel attractions.

California’s Three Arboreal Superlatives

In California you can meet the tallest, the most massive, and the oldest living things on earth. All these living things happen to be trees.

California’s Redwood Country

Though the California imagination can sometimes suffer from inflation, certain facts of nature here are indisputable. The redwood trees (Sequoia sempervirens) along the coast north from San Francisco are magnificent and the tallest trees on the earth.

Redding and the Shasta Cascade Area of Northern California

The Redding/Shasta Cascade area of Northern California has emerged with renewed tourism vigor, partly due to the remarkable Sundial Bridge (opened 2004) and adjacent Turtle Bay Exploration Park, which epitomize the best traits of the region.

Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park

Crater Lake might be called the tour de force national park. It is like a great one-act play, a volcanic crater left over from a major eruption.

Art of the Family Reunion

For eighteen years my four sisters and I, accompanied by our parents, spouses, significant others, and children, gathered for an annual summer family reunion.

RV Travel: Onward to Utah

I decided to take my family of five in an RV from our home near San Francisco out to see Salt Lake and the five National Parks of Utah, plus Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.

The Great Wetlands of the Florida Everglades

The Florida Everglades National Park is a slow-motion river, only a few inches deep but 50 miles wide and a hundred miles long, America’s greatest wetland ecosystem. Among things to see and do, consider Marco Island, Everglades City, kayaking and canoeing, reading Marjory Stonemans Douglas’ The Everglades: River of Grass, Flamingo, and the Anhinga Trail.