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The Road Traveler
http://www.theroadtraveler.blogspot.com
A blog about our travels around the United States, with links and photos of some of the more interesting places we have found.
- Added on: Nov 3rd, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Strato62
- Listed in: Travel Vacation
- Tags: entertainment United States vacations destinations road trips fun places
Recent Posts
California's Hidden Gems
California. Just the word summons a mood: freewheeling, sun-enriched, coastal bliss.Sure you’ve got mudslides, perpetual traffic and the San Andreas Fault; but they just balance the scale back to even, so the rest of us can sleep nights, feet firm...
Cape Cod, Nantucket, friendship through the fog
Cape Cod: A spigot of land jutting into the mighty sea, cod leaping onto the shore. Friends reunited, ghosts from the past, we took a final stroll along its fog-dipped depths before being cast back to shore and our disparate lives.Seventeen years aft...
Colorado Lessons: Rounding that Sharp Corner Into The Teenage Years and Beyond
It dawned on me this summer in Colorado, as my son, now a teen, embarked with us on our annual journey, him through the filter of adolescence: every family vacation, every trip to an unexplored land is framed, like a portrait, by its time and place i...
New Mexico: Land of Enchantment and Georgia O’Keeffe
New Mexico is known as the Land of Enchantment. Skies were bluer; rocks were redder. We flew down from the Land of 10,000 Lakes. The desert came alive and took us in.Just beyond town, the Petroglyph National Monument quietly held the secrets of an e...
Minnesota Dreaming: Summer’s strong pull
When I think of summer in Minnesota, I think of it as winter’s payoff. This is the delivery on all hope, sustained during 40 below windchills, buried deep within our frozen, winter souls. We stay in this country because we are able; each year we p...
North Dakota Road Trip: Wild Horses (and Sacagawea) Couldn’t Drag me Away
As a kid growing up on the East coast, I had no clue where North Dakota was. As an adult, I never sought it out. Assumption: North Dakota - barren, empty, cold. Reality: North Dakota - rugged, historic, where horses run free. In our quest to visit al...
