Author: grandmisadventures
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A Day at Rock Island State Park {Tennessee}
The weather has been warming up here in Tennessee and all we’ve been able to think about is getting outside to enjoy it. We have been working on seeing all of the state parks here for the last few years. But a few weeks ago, we drove two hours one way to a new park…
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“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given…
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Five Favorites :: Past Civilizations
It is always fascinating in traveling to run upon artifacts and evidence of civilizations long since past. These moments are small glimpses into the past of a people and a culture and give a little understanding to the history of a place. But then we realize that the glimpse is not enough and we find…
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Snowy Hoodoos-Bryce Canyon National Park {Utah}
After our drive through Zion National Park, we continued to follow the road that would take us to our next national park. There are 5 national parks in Utah which are referred to as the Utah High 5. And Bryce Canyon National Park is one of my all time favorite national parks. I was filled…
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Driving through Zion National Park {Utah}
Just outside St. George is home to Utah’s first national park- Zion National Park. There are 5 national parks in Utah which are fondly called the Utah High 5. Zion is the largest of the parks with close to 500,000 acres of land. With so much land, visitors have a what seems like a never…
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From Las Vegas to St George {Nevada & Utah}
Our adventures have been a little sparse lately…or at least not nearly as much or as far as we would normally go. We have had a series of unfortunate events the last couple months, nothing terrible just a bunch of bumps in the road. But finally it seems that we are turning a corner as…
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“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” —Judith Thurman
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Moments & Misadventures :: A Day in Saint Augustine
One of our favorite weekends when we lived in Florida was visiting Saint Augustine. This city is the oldest, continuously inhabited, city in the country. The city was first established in September 1565 by a group of Spanish explorers. The ships came from Spain and their first sight of land after the long journey to…
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Five Favorites :: Travel Books
They say that planning a trip is almost as exciting as actually going on a trip. In all that planning there comes the books that we always turn to, whose pages are near worn from all the hours that we have spent pouring over their contents trying to find the inspiration and guidance to the…
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“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.” –Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist