Lesson in tolerance [Providence]
2017年12月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ❄️ 1 °C
Seemed appropriate to start the year with a lesson in tolerance. On Christmas Eve we visited the Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI. It's also a National Historic Site and the oldest synagogue in theもっと詳しく
Ice-Nine [Boston]
2018年1月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ -7 °C
For those who don't remember their 60s popular literature, ice-nine was a scary chemical in Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Cat's Cradle." Anyway, it's taking over the East Coast. When we left Boston onもっと詳しく
Friends on ice [Vienna]
2018年1月5日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ -8 °C
In stopping off in the DC area we were reminded of the only thing that makes us second guess our decision to move-- the good friends we left behind. Impossible to replace decades-long friendships.
Crazy [Richmond]
2018年1月7日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ -5 °C
Sometimes it's the smallest detail that sticks when you visit a historical site. Cold Harbor, Va. was a sprawling landscape of carnage that included several major battles in one June 1864 fortnight.もっと詳しく
Hatteras/obx
2018年1月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Winding down the obx (Outer Banks) basking in the warm 60's weather. Saluted the Wright Bros at Kitty Hawk, pondered the lost colony at Ft. Raleigh (whatever happened to Virginia Dare?), and enjoyedもっと詳しく
Bank Hopping [Ocracoke]
2018年1月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Got a taste of island commuting as we worked our way down the Outter Banks. We spent half a day either waiting for a ferry or riding one. Along the way we picked up a hitchhiker/commuter who worked onもっと詳しく
Before Jim Crow [Beaufort]
2018年1月12日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
We covered a lot of ground today but most of it was wet and obscured by incessant rain. Our only stop was one of the newest parks in the system. The Reconstruction Era National Monument in Beaufort,もっと詳しく
Fort-itude [Savannah]
2018年1月13日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C
We visited the first of a string of forts dotting coastal Georgia and Florida. First up, Fort Pulaski. With a drawbridge, allligator patrolled moats, two-foot thick walls and the guiding hand of aもっと詳しく
Forts and Plantations [Jacksonville]
2018年1月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C
Three more forts today-- Caroline, Castillo de San Marcos and Matanzas. Plus Timucuan, an ecological and historical preserve. The forts told various stories of colonial mahem and hegemony between theもっと詳しく
Canaveral seashore/ De soto [St Pete]
2018年1月15日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Started out the day exploring the Cape Canaveral seashore donated to the NPS by NASA in the 60's. One of the last wild Fla seashores, terrific 30-40 foot Indian oyster shell middens. On to Brandentonもっと詳しく
Gators and manatees [Everglades]
2018年1月16日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Today we began the final push to complete the last few Florida parks we haven't seen before the looming government shutdown Friday night. So today was spent in Everglades NP. Awed with the amazingもっと詳しく
Bike to Nature [Everglades]
2018年1月17日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Deployed our folding bikes this morning for a 15-mile ride through the Everglades. This no-autos trail gives a good feel for the Everglades sea of grass. And it is loaded with wildlife. We broughtもっと詳しく
Another Fort & Ferry [Dry Tortugas]
2018年1月19日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Up early to catch a two-plus hour ferry ride to one of the largest forts on the E coast; Dry Tortuga Nat'l Park. Huge frigate birds gliding over this island reef; at least 100 of them. Prettyもっと詳しく
Turtle Rescue [Florida Keys]
2018年1月20日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Having notched the last of the ten Florida National Parks on Friday we headed back to the mainland to visit our friend Krista Eaton in Miami. By chance we passed Florida's first sea turtle rehabもっと詳しく
In search of the wild manatee [Ocala]
2018年1月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Drove up to Crystal Springs, Fla. in search of manatees. The ranger station, empty like the park, had a flyer telling us to go to Homosassa Springs State Park if one wanted to see manatees. We droveもっと詳しく
Yearling [Cross Creek]
2018年1月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Visited Marjorie K. Rawlings home at Cross Creek, Fla. Just one of my favorite books! (Debra and Krista, this one's for you too!) She captures rural, old Florida; it's quirky neighbors, the hardshipもっと詳しく
Fort-Weary McClearys [Pensacola]
2018年1月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
More coastal forts. Fort Pickens, built by slaves and, briefly, prison-home to the Apache chief, Geronimo. Ft McRee, which we fortunately didn't have to see because it was swept into the ocean decadesもっと詳しく
Ethnic Cleansing [Auburn]
2018年1月28日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Horseshoe Bend Nat'l Battlefield is one of those parks you want to hurry through. The things that happened there are that horrendous. Andrew Jackson learned the art of ethnic cleansing here where overもっと詳しく
Bama, Tuskegee
2018年1月29日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
A couple day diversion up to Alabama continues (as New Orleans stuff not open on the weekend). I hate to draw stereotypes, but do see hound and pit bull dogs running loose, heard a hound baying allもっと詳しく
Selma
2018年1月30日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C
Up to now, every Park we've visited was history, natural or human. Selma is different. This is our living history. The Selma to Montgomery HistoricTrail recounts in pictures, film and audio theもっと詳しく
The big easy [New Orleans]
2018年1月31日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
We could almost say, another ferry, another fort. We visited the swamp hangout of the "entrepreneur" (pirate) Jean Lafitte and the 1815 battlefield of his earstwhile buddy, Andrew Jackson.
Lafitte isもっと詳しく
Cajun Resilience [Lafayette]
2018年2月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Spent our last day in Louisiana hop scotching west from one Cajun cultural center to another. Three in all. We were vaguely familiar with their story thanks to Longfellow's Evangeline but really hadもっと詳しく
Whooping it up [Corpus Christi]
2018年2月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Took a small boat tour out of Rockport TX to the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. This is the only place the remaining wild whooping cranes fly to in winter from Buffalo Wood Provincial Park inもっと詳しく
Manifest white destiny [Brownsville]
2018年2月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
The US honed its country eminent domain skills in the first battle of the Mexican-American War at Palo Alto. US troops baited the Mexican Army into crossing the Rio Grande. What's interesting is thatもっと詳しく
Mission Mania [San Antonio]
2018年2月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
In California the 20 Spanish missions were each spaced one day's ride apart up half the length of the territory. In Texas the Comanche were such a constant threat that they crammed six of them into aもっと詳しく





















































































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