Tag: road trip
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Weekly Photo Challenge: ROY G. BIV
A creative response to this week’s Photo Challenge? Perhaps not. But, this rainbow so vividly displayed the full spectrum of colors, as we drove through Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota a few years back, it immediately came to mind when I reviewed our photo charge for the week! If only we had more time,…
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Sand Dunes in the Mountains
I gave you a glimpse of the Great Sand Dunes National Park in the post for this week’s photo challenge. It is worth revisiting in more detail, starting with the sunrise at San Luis State Park, just outside the dunes. The San Luis campground was the ideal launching pad for a day trip to the…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: On Top
Returning to another great road trip memory for this week’s challenge: my son standing on top of a sand dune at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado. Check back tomorrow for more photos from this interesting National Park, and the greater perspective and context of these dunes. Ciao! ~ Kat This post…
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Yellowstone National Park, Classic Road Trip Destination
I am saddened that our days of the classic summer road trip are over. We had a good run of them. Then our boys became involved in summer activities or jobs that made it increasingly difficult to schedule around, and they went on to create their own special memories with friends old and new, as it…
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Family Road Trips: Time Together that Breaks and Bonds
As parents before us always cautioned, “Time goes so fast, enjoy it before it’s gone.” Words of wisdom, and words we tried to heed in between those other moments when every parent feels that a little alone time would not be so bad? So it goes with the family road trip. My recent travel consisted…