Traveling in the United States and Abroad
After years of the AP Reading being in Salt Lake City, this year, the AP World History essays were scored in Kansas City this year, and Jim and I headed out there on June 1st. The switch to KC would involve a pretty extreme change in climate, with much more humidity than in arid Utah,…
In Virginia, the end of summer is signaled by an abrupt 30 degree drop in daytime temperatures over a 24 hour period. That seasonal change used to be predictably in mid-October, but global climate change has pushed it later and later. While this is obviously bad for the planet, it meant that our semi-annual excursion…
After a busy summer break, the last hurrah of the summer was a trip to LOCKN, a four day music festival in Arrington, Virginia, located roughly in between Charlottesville and Lynchburg. The headliners of the festival were Dead and Company, a band comprised of most of the surviving original members of the Grateful Dead, supplemented by…
Over the summer, we had gone to or through almost half of the states in the Union, but our next stop would be closer to home in Virginia – Grey’s Point. This is a campsite/resort of sorts on the Rappahannok River near the Chesapeake Bay, where my parents have a place. In addition to the…
Having traveled to Michigan, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Alberta (Canada), South Dakota, Missouri, and Kentucky, our next destination was North Carolina – the Outer Banks. It’s a rough life that we lead. Step one in preparing to travel once again was cleaning out the car from our last trip, which meant moving McKenna’s car booster…
On July 20th, we finished up in St. Louis and headed to our next destination: Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, the last National Park in a vacation that included Rocky Mountain National Park, the Tetons, Yellowstone, Glacier, Banff, and the Badlands. McKenna got herself ready. We crossed through Illinois and Indiana and reached Kentucky in…
We had driven over 6,000 miles on our trip across the country, through Rocky Mountain National Park, the Tetons, Yellowstone, Glacier, Banff, and the Badlands. Now we were moving back to east, starting with our stay in Billings and continuing to Sioux Falls. There we did laundry in a local laundromat for what we hoped…
On July 15th, we left the Rockies to start back east. Along the way, the plan was to visit Mount Rushmore and stop in the Badlands. But first, we made the very long drive from Banff in Canada to our hotel in Billings, Montana. Then we crossed from Montana to Wyoming to get to Devil’s…
On July 13th, we headed north through Montana’s Tobacco Valley toward Canada. By this time, we had gone over 4,500 miles, and we were on our way to Canada’s Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. After a few hours, we made it to the border, where an angry Canadian mob levied retaliatory tariffs on…
On July 9th, we went out of the western entrance of Yellowstone and headed into Idaho to see parts of that state on our way ultimately to Glacier National Park in Montana, where we would be camping for two nights. We managed to take the longest possible route from Yellowstone to our lodge on the…
