Category: travel
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A Vacation on the Salton Sea
I wanted to take a mini vacation. Hawaii would have been ideal but time and money would not allow it. I needed a place within driving distance that I had never explored before. I had two days. After living in Southern California for almost a decade this was a tall order and with my…
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Patagonia: Kayaking the Rio Serrano
I’m finally getting back in the swing of things since getting back from our trip to Patagonia. I plan on writing about all the amazing things we did and saw on our trip and I decided the best way to start would be with what I think was the highlight of our trip: kayaking the…
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In Patagonia
Our trip is winding down to an end. I’m sitting on the bottom bunk of our hostel listening to the wind rattle the windows. It’s a bit cloudy out today and we plan on one last hike before the bus takes us back to Calafate and our plane back home. I’ll be filling you all…
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First days in Patagonia
Visiting Patagonia has alway been a dream of mine. I think there is something about the less traveled parts of the world that draw me to them. Patagonia for lack of a better word is big. It is expansive in every way. The sky opens up over golden scrub land. The wind howls here, cold…
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Photo Essay: Home for a week
How to pack as much as possible into a week in Maine. When you miss your flight and get in a day late spend whats left of the afternoon at a local apple orchard, extra points if they have baby goats. Use every bit of daylight to see the sights. This means going to the…
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Death Valley National Park: Eureka Dunes and The Racetrack
Death Valley National Park is the largest park in the lower 48. At 3.4 million acres the park has a lot of ground to cover. This was our second trip to the park and we stuck mostly to the north end. We took the 395 north to Big Pine then took a right on 168…
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Hiking : Osage Hills State Park, Oklahoma
How to get to Osage Hills State Park: buy two tickets to Tulsa Oklahoma for Christmas. Get your flight home canceled due to unforeseen weather events giving you two extra days to explore the land around your husbands home town. Drive a hour west of Bartlesville to Osage Hills State Park, get your boots on…
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Big Bear, California
Sometimes a girl just needs to feel like a Norwegian Viking princess, and living in the arid southwest can make this a challenge. Luckily fall has finally arrived to SoCal and Big Bear California is only an hour away. We took the winding two lane highway 38 up the mountain, transitioning from the city of…
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Time at home; a Maine love story
This is a story of two loves. The first is my love for my home state, the motherland, Maine. No matter where I go or how many beautiful sights I see Maine will always be the most breathtaking and soul soaring place I have ever been. So maybe I’m a bit biased. It it’s not…
Bit of Betsy 