Visual Travel Tours Now on Amazon

Amazon Travel Tours

I thought these walking and driving tours for cell phones, produced by VisualTravelTours were pretty cool. So, families that travel together, but with different types of mobile devices, can now take a walking tour at the same time, and/or at their own pace. The narrated tours have images throughout, a map to print before you [...]

Aren’t You Just a Wee Bit Curious?

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Do you know anyone who can talk for hours about themselves or other people, yet never stops to ask you a question about your experience? I am bound by blood and long-term association to several folks who seem similarly incurious. Over the years I’ve come to appreciate that their apparent lack of curiosity invariably leads [...]

Antelope Island State Park: Almost Heaven

The sign that greeted our arrival at the entrance to Antelope Island State Park near Layton, Utah was “the biting gnats are bad”. Equipped with various forms of deet, we were not to be deterred from visiting. After a month on the road, we were ready for a ‘real vacation’ — time to kick back, [...]

My 4-Month Birthday Celebration

Jasper-Birthday

We were at the KOA in Salt Lake City on June 11th, 2010 — my 4 month birthday. My parents, Ed and Ros, surprised me with Fido cookies, birthday hats and singing “Happy Birthday” (badly and out of tune) to me just after dinnertime. I didn’t care much for the hat. But they can sing [...]

See You in the Next Zip Code

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I was out taking pictures of the approaching cumulonimbus (thunder) clouds against a scenic mountain backdrop at the KOA in Rock Springs, Wyoming; with the lyrics of Cheap Trick’s “Rock ‘n Roll” Tonight” running through my brain when a single drop of rain hit my face. A second later, the wind picked up and the [...]