Carlsbad Caverns – Second visit May 8, 2024
The caverns never disappoints if you are at all interested in the geological formations under the earth. The cave was formed with sulfuric acid and that is unique in its…
Guadalupe Mountains National Park – Second visit 5/6/2024 – 5/8/2024
Some of you may ask why is there a park in the Guadalupe Mountains and why should I come here. The park has over 85 miles of hiking trails and…
Big Bend National Park
Big Bend has a couple of distinct areas being the river, desert and mountains so something for everyone. The park has the Rio Grande river at its outer boundary of…
Thailand
Bangkok - I set out on my journey in Bangkok on foot. I had 5 places that I wanted to visit and got to 4 of the 5. It was…
Malaysia
Arrival into the country was 1.5 hours late and the trip from Auckland was scheduled for 11 hours but went 11.5. When we got to Malaysia there was lightening in…
New Zealand
My trip to New Zealand started in Auckland with the arrival and notice that anything that was in the countryside begin brought into the country would not be allowed to…
Melbourne
Great Oceans Road and 12 Apostles tour - pickup was at 0700 at the Immigration Museum and it was a 7 minute walk from my place. Got there early so…
Cairns
Cape Tribulation,Daintree tour - The tour was with Tropic Wings and pickup was at 0715 about 1 mile from where I was staying so I had a nice walk before…
Sydney
Blue Mountains - once I decided I had time for the blue mountains trip I started with the having to get an Opal pass, ticket for train. The cashier at…
America Samoa
The park is in the South Pacific and is not the easiest place to get to and is in a third world country. Hawaiian Airlines, in 2023, has two weekly…