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The normally dull trip across flat, straight I-74 in Indiana was much prettier this time due to a bloom of Queen Anne’s Lace.

Check out the photo tour from our brief vacation in Everglades National Park in south Florida.  I used to live in Florida and frequently saw alligators in nearby ponds, but I’ve never seen this many alligators, often within striking distance.  Fortunately we escaped with all our limbs intact.

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We enjoyed a nice hike to a pretty waterfall with my Uncle Mike in Big Canoe, Georgia.  A rare snowfall (apparently it snows there only once or twice each year) made the hike even more special.

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Check out the photo tour from our hiking vacation in Big Bend National Park last October.  The park is quiet, uncrowded and massive, with over 800,000 acres of remote desert and mountains in south Texas.  The Rio Grande River defines the southern border of the park and the United States international border with Mexico.

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We recently flew from Northern Kentucky to El Paso, Texas, on our way to Big Bend National Park.

Taking off from CVG, the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport.  Here we see the Ohio River fogged in, as it often is in the early morning.

Chicago is a fun place to visit, but a terrible place to pass through.  It took us four hours to travel through the city.  We hit south Chicago at 1pm on a Friday, but the traffic had already slowed to a crawl.

Here you can see the Sears Tower from I-94 North.
 

Here are a few photos of the sun setting over downtown St. Petersburg, Florida.  I took these photos across Tampa Bay from the Mariner’s Club on Bahia Beach.  There’s a nice outdoor restaurant there right on the beach with terrific views of the water and sunsets.

Click on the image below to see a panorama of Bahia Beach just after sunset.

Theresa and I just returned from our trip to Rocky Mountain National Park.  Rocky Mountain is the highest national park in the United States and provides a true alpine experience with its soaring peaks, open tundra, broad valleys, deep forests, and many small glaciers.  If you are interested in this beautiful park, be sure [...]