More Updates for California and Oregon NPs
From the Beginning As I am prepping for the trip to California and Oregon, I’ve tried to remember which national park I visited first. Eventually, I realized that my first park was Rocky Mountain National Park, which I visited with my mother in 2013. We followed that a couple of days later with Zion National Park, then added a tour of Grand Canyon National Park shortly afterwards. We also passed close to Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains NPs. However, visiting the parks as a project wasn’t in my game plan at the time, so we didn’t stop. So much has changed about what I want to experience when I visit parks that I want to revisit them, both Zion and Grand Canyon, later this year. The other parks are also in the plan. In the meantime, prep work continues. Presently, I’m fleshing out non-national park sites I would be interested…
Countdown for California & Oregon, Plus Two DC Productions
The Final Frontier There are a lot of not-so-good things going on as I write this, but one of the few exceptions is the launch of NASA’s Artemis II. As of Day 7 of its mission, it had taken its four crew members around Earth’s moon to a point further than humans have traveled to date. They have generated lots of pictures, but my favorite is this one. As one poster commented, I’m pictured there on Earth, you just can’t see me. Trip Prep My preparations for the train trip and extended drive to California and Oregon are progressing. As much as I am aware that I can’t take a lot of stuff, even if I expect the trip to take a couple of weeks to complete, I know I will have to do at least one weeding before departure time arrives. One significant change in plans. My eldest sister…
Seein’ the DMV: Reaching New Heights-033126
Growing Pains I have been posting to singin1.com for nearly ten years. The site has grown to the point where it is necessary to move to a new site, thus the birth of singin1too.com. There are now several sites covering a range of travel: Singin’ One Too: Posts from today’s blog entry onward Singin’ One: Posts from 2016 to early 2026 Old Singin’ One: Posts from 2008 to 2016 using WordPress.com About Iowa?!?: Various early posts using WordPress.com Goin’ West: The first blog of my travels in 2008 Links to all of the blogs are accessible from the menu at the top of the Singin’ One and Singin’ One Too sites, and the links to the three photo sites are there, too. I’m also adding a search engine (All Search) that accesses all of the sites. Movin’ On I occasionally purchase equipment to enhance my travel experience. A couple of…