We have wanted to visit Oaxaca for a long time. Oaxaca (pronounced wah-haw-kah) is about 225 miles southeast of Mexico City, and it is famous for its unique cuisine. The area relies heavily on tourism, as the city has lovely colonial-era buildings and native Zapotec and Mixtec cultures and archeological sites. The Catedral de Oaxaca, …
We camped at Zion National Park for three nights the second weekend in October. Zion is extremely popular, and we booked our campsites exactly four months before the trip. (Reservations have a four month window). On our drive to Zion we hit torrential rain, with threats of snow, but by the time we arrived at …
We took a day trip to what is known locally as the Alpine Loop to see the fall colors. We entered the Unita National Forest near Timpanogos Cave National Monument, and followed the narrow two lane highway up to the high elevations. We then headed down the mountain past Sundance Ski Resort. We basically drove …
We spent three nights camping in Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, which is just outside of the town of Escalante, UT. This is on Utah Highway 12, a well known Scenic Byway that goes past Bryce Canyon National Park, Kodachrome Basin State Park, Escalante, Boulder, to Torrey, the gateway to Capitol Reef National Park. Escalante is …
Last winter we were planning our camping adventures for the year; you need to plan in advance because the reservations fill up for many state park campgrounds quickly. We like to camp in Southern Utah, but it is too hot there in the summer. So I asked Susan where would you like to camp this …
We flew from the Chobe region to Maun, Botswana on a little tiny plane, and then got into a more traditional aircraft to fly to Cape Town, South Africa. We were very excited to visit Cape Town because my sister Michele had given it rave reviews after visiting on a business trip. Cape Town was …
We like monkeys and baboons. Why? They are primates, and they look like us. They have such expressive faces, and they engage in such interesting behaviors. We really enjoyed watching them. However, Africans really do not like the monkeys, and especially the baboons. Why? First they are noisy. They are very social animals, and they …
There were pluses and minuses for our stay at Little Kwara Camp in the Okavango Delta. The pluses included the most amazing game drives, and we also had two really nice boat rides on the delta. The minus was the fact that camp here was the much less nice than the other two camps , …
In a previous post I noted that we traveled on a small plane that held only 12 passengers. Well the planes got smaller in Botswana, and then smaller still. We were supposed to fly from Chobe to the Okavango Delta, but the information from our tour company, unlike for everything else about the trip, was …
Our guide at Chobe was Kenneth, who was outstanding, and very, very funny. On one of the days we drove to the town of Kasane and got in a boat for a cruise on the Chobe river. The river was gorgeous. There were big islands on the river full of lush green grasses. In the …