We landed in Rapid City, South Dakota early on Saturday, picked up the rental car and we are off to the races. We had a lot to do and see and a limited amount of time to do it in. South Dakota was that extra stop-off that I told you about in an earlier post. Mount Rushmore was on Betty’s bucket list. So, since it only took us about 350 miles out of route from Yellowstone…what the heck! If it…
Two weeks have gone by and I am just getting around to writing my first article and hopefully uploading and sharing some really great photographs. Between work and some other things that needed to be taken care of, just been a little busy to get this going. And I truly wanted to give it the time and effort that it needed. I wanted to summarize the trip in the first few paragraphs and then delve into the day to day…
Everything is scheduled and set! Flying into Rapid City and taking 2 days to see Mt. Rushmore. This is one of the first places that Betty told me that she wanted to see if we were going to travel the US. It really wasn’t on my top ten list, but it’s close enough to Yellowstone to make a stop there. So, we will see Mt. Rushmore and The Badlands. We are going to stay in a great little place that…
Well, the decision was made to see all the beauty that the United States has to offer. We selected Yellowstone as one of those first stops. Betty has always wanted to see Mt. Rushmore, so we’ll start there and cruise across Wyoming looking for nature and animals along the way. Not sure how many of you have ever been there, but to whomever I speak, they say it is BEAUTIFUL. Trying to get all the details ironed out. More importantly…
It seems that I can never tire of taking pictures of the New York City skyline – daytime, nighttime, summer, winter or fall. There is just something dynamic and even though it seems not to change, there is change there every time I stop and look. It never ceases to impress me and always lets me know that it’s the greatest city in the world! Just another casual Sunday, a late lunch with my son in Hoboken. We talked about everything…
As difficult as it was to leave Bogota, we were excited to get to the old city of Cartagena de Indias. We were looking forward to a little bit of sun, sand and beach. That adds up to relaxation! We like to have our trips be a combination of sightseeing, adventure and relaxation and we manage to do a good job at that. Sometimes it makes us rush around a little but at the end it’s all worth it. Getting…
One of the truly fascinating sites is the Salt Cathedral located about 60 minutes drive from Bogota in a small city named Zipaquirá. There are many guided tours that will take you there, but as my blog title indicates, we are “backroads wanderers” and we explore and make things happen on our own. This allows us the freedom to come and go as we please, stop when we want to take a picture and basically customize our own little tour….
Well, just as I expected and as I mentioned at the beginning of this blog, keeping current and writing about our trips is time consuming and what I have discovered, the cataloging of photos is the real holdup. I am currently downloading all the pictures from both Bogota and Cartagena and tagging them so that they can easily be imported not only into the computer but also the blog pictures page. I want to present them to you in an…
Well, we’ve been waiting for this day and it’s finally here. Leaving for Bogota tomorrow night arriving on Friday morning. We are hoping to use the whole day to really take a look around, but people say that between the midnight flight and the high altitude of Bogota that you will be pretty tired. Well, we shall see. Our hope is to drop off our things at the Hilton in Bogota, see if the weather is good and head right…
Oh, I would love to go there!……..Boy, would I like to see that!….. Most people are always talking about wanting to see the world. The media, television, the internet. All are showing these distant incredibly beautiful places to see. Yes, there’s a lot to be said about the Eifel Tower of Paris, the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, The Great Wall of China and all of those exotic places, but the truth of the matter is that there is so much…