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Category Archives: United States
Ketchikan to Juneau: a cruise
Five years ago my family got together to celebrate my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary in San Miguel de Allende. For 55 we met this year in Ketchikan for a cruise to Juneau. We spent a week on a 100-person ship, … Continue reading
Ketchikan’s totem poles
Four weeks after Ferda and I were learning about cemeteries in Tana Toraja, we found ourselves in Ketchikan learning about totem poles. Totem poles are not for religion, and they’re not worshiped. They’re built to tell stories. Just as stories … Continue reading
NW Sonora’s treasure: Pinacate National Park
If there are any nice beach places on the northern Sonoran coast, I haven’t found them. On this driving trip with Megan and Ferda, we went to both Desemboque and Puerto Peñasco, and both were stunningly awful. With a cold … Continue reading
Posted in Mexico, Traveling, United States
Tagged Desemboque, Pinacate National Park, Puerto Peñasco, San Diego, Tecate, Tijuana
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Following the footsteps of Father Kino
On this road trip we usually just camped where we wanted, often looking for places after dark since we were covering big distances and it gets dark so early in the winter. This isn’t always the most comfortable, and Megan … Continue reading
Posted in Mexico, Traveling, United States
Tagged Animas, Caborca, Cotton City, Hachita, Magdalena de Kino, Nogales, Pimería Alta, Pitiquito, San Ignacio, San Xavier de Boc, Tumacácori National Historic Park, Tuscon
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Auto-touring: Boulder, a little caving, and west to Arizona
When Ferda and I originally started making plans to come to the US, we weren’t going to visit Colorado. It was too far from California, and it was going to be the middle of winter, the most uncomfortable time to … Continue reading
Posted in Caving, Traveling, United States
Tagged Boulder, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Saguaro National Park, Wilcox Playa
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