Boston National Historical Park
Boston. Beantown. City on a Hill. The Athens of America. The Cradle of Liberty. So many nicknames for this one city in the state of…
Niagara Falls Maid of the Mist
Before I see Niagra Falls, I hear a deep distant roar. We make our way to the railing and my mouth drops open to let…
Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Hale Farm & Village
In 1810, Jonathan Hale arrived in Bath Township as the first legal settler on the Western Reserve. Like many settlers, he came to build a…
Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad
I've always believed that a fun way to learn history is through the experience of riding a train. There’s something antiquated yet charming about riding…
Driving Tour of Cuyahoga Valley National Park
The Cuyahoga River burned 13 times since 1868. Before Cuyahoga Valley became a national park, numerous industrial plants occupied the area, and for a hundred…
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
Near the junction Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee and within the Appalachian Mountains, lies an area well-traveled by Native Americans centuries before European settlers arrived in…
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
Following part of the Lincoln Heritage Trail, we drive two hours to Abraham Lincoln's third home in Indiana. The Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial marks the…
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
When we're on the road our choice for entertainment isn't music, but history lessons from Audible.com. So when we visit a National Monument or National…
How to Visit Mammoth Cave National Park
Mammoth Cave National Park offers over 20 Ranger-led tours, most underground and a few above ground. Selecting which tour to go on can be a…
Stories of Mammoth Cave National Park
I must be honest although Mammoth Cave National Park holds the title of longest cave in the world, it is not as dramatic or as…
Easy Hikes of Great Smoky Mountains
During our stay in the Great Smoky Mountains, I had the unfortunate luck of getting sick with some kind of stomach bug. I was down…
Waterfalls of Great Smoky Mountains
The Great Smoky Mountains is blessed with two essential ingredients for the creation of waterfalls: abundant rainfall and elevation gradient. An average of 85 inches…
Cades Cove of Great Smoky Mountains
Amid the Appalachian Mountian Chain and Blue Ridge Mountains area, we have decided to visit that famed region of America known as the Great Smoky…
National Corvette Museum and Factory in Bowling Green Kentucky
There are some places Trail and I go purely out of curiosity. Bowling Green was on our way from the Smoky Mountains to Ohio and…
Dry Tortugas National Park
When Juan Ponce de León landed at Dry Tortugas islands in 1513, he and his crew caught hundreds of giant sea turtles, in addition to…
Everglades National Park
If there was a tract of land in desperate need of protection, Everglades National Park is it. In 1947, that's what Congress did; by establishing…
Manatees of Crystal River, Florida
I could not leave Florida without seeing a wild manatee. From early November to late March, the West Indian Manatees gather in numbers when water…
Quiet Side of Acadia National Park
For our next foray into Acadia National Park, we set our sites to the west side of Mount Desert Island. Also appreciated as the Quiet…
Sailing in Biscayne National Park
One early morning in late March of 2017, I urge Hitch to wake up with a nudge, "Get up. It's sailing day!" My excitement feels…
Eastside of Acadia National Park
I once read a quote about Acadia National Park: "You can fish with one hand and sample blueberries from a wind-stunted bush with the other."…
Best Cave Tours of Mammoth Cave
After writing a lengthy article on "How to Visit Mammoth Cave National Park," I feel that I should make suggestions as to which cave tours…
Best Day Hikes of The Needles, Canyonlands National Park
When we last visited Canyonlands National Park some odd years ago, we mainly focused on a section of the park called the “Island in the…
Marsh – Billings – Rockefeller National Historical Park
All our knowledge of Vermont came from fleeting passages in a lengthy lecture series of American History. I think 30 minutes in total was covered…
Visiting the Mothership: Airstream Headquarters in Jackson Center, Ohio
For Trail and Hitch, it was the first time we'd been to Jackson Center Ohio. For our Airstream, the Yamato, it was returning home. This…
I Fell Into a Waterfall in the Great Smokies
Sometimes you fall in love with nature, sometimes you just fall in nature, sometimes you do both at once. This story takes place in the…
Key West and Hemingway’s Polydactal Cats
Some travel to Key West for the sunshine, some for the booze, some for the surf, some to visit the home of a great writer;…
Juniper Springs in Ocala National Forest
Take a moment and eyeball the cover picture on this article. Juniper Springs is seriously gorgeous. Of all the photographs I've taken so far on…
Exploring the Civil War in The American South
Heads up: This article contains strong political views on serious subjects as well as some harsh images of war. To my reckoning, the American Civil…
Gulf Islands National Seashore
Gulf Island National Seashore contains a set of barrier islands located both in Mississippi and Florida. The two districts contain a total collection of 12…
The Aware Wildlife Center in Atlanta Georgia
While making our way through Georgia we got an invitation from our gaming friend Scott Lang to pay him a visit. Scott was recently named…
When Yellowjackets Invaded Our Airstream
This is a story from the earliest days of our Airstream Adventure. I've told it many times in person, and somehow never got it down…
The Bay Area Renaissance Fair
While in Florida, we decided to try and visit a friend we met playing Dungeons and Dragons online many years ago. Though we stopped playing…
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
Cane River Creole National Historical Park was our first foray upon entering Louisiana. Right along Cane River Lake, reside two French Creole cotton plantations both…
Birding in the Rio Grande Valley
Down in the most southern tip of Texas, near where the Rio Grande exits out into the Gulf of Mexico, there exists a land where…
Other Islands of Acadia National Park
I well knew Acadia National Park's core resided on Mount Desert Island through several travel articles and nature documentaries. I discovered the Schoodic Penninsula district…
Schoodic Peninsula of Acadia National Park
Before we arrived at Acadia National Park back in the Summer of 2017, I sat at a pretty little cafe just outside of Yarmouth researching…
Statue Of Liberty National Monument
In honor of the Union's defeat of slavery and the Confederate south, France gifted the United States with a colossal neoclassical statue. Her real name…
Trail and Hitch vs. Cranky Jack
It has been a while since our intrepid crew has faced off against our old adversary, the Atwood 3000 power jack. Our last encounter was…
Airstream Zip Dee Awning Repair
When we purchased our Airstream we got a good deal by buying one ordered by another customer who backed out of the deal. Lucky for…
United States Supreme Court Building
Congress let 146 years pass before providing the US Supreme Court with its own building in 1935. Prior to its current location, the court moved…
Slippery Slopes and Airstreams
This is a short lesson in hitch safety that we discovered the hard way. After more than 20 months of traveling, we got a serious…
The United States Capitol
The United States Capitol is possibly the most architecturally impressive building I've come to witness. The grand 19th-century neoclassical architecture invokes the ideals set forth…
8 Free Things to Do at Balboa Park
Back in the 1800s, it was a common practice for the Spanish and Mexican governments to set aside large tracts of land for common use…
Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park of New Mexico
While making our way through New Mexico, Trail and I decided to visit the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens which is both a Zoo and…
San Diego Zoo’s Safari Park in Pictures
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Co-Enabling Adventure
Trail and I are very different from one another in personality. While we very often like the same things, we approach them in very different…
Valley Center, CA
In 1845, just two years before the discovery of gold in California, a town was founded just outside of San Diego. It was considered fully…
Crawl out through the Fallout
What's this? A video game review on a travel blog? Yes indeed folks. Trail felt that as traveling geeks and gamers we should write about…
Traveling Medicine: Hitch vs Gout
While in Big Bend Texas, I began to notice the big toe of my left foot was not feeling so great. It was kind of…
San Francisco
During our stay in the Sacramento, we decided to brave the traffic into San Francisco and take a guided tour of the city courtesy of…
