Hike Breckenridge Trails
September in Breckenridge CO is a great season for hiking and biking, and enjoying the views and fresh air.
Breckenridge Distillery Revisited: Starting with Water
[Editor's Note: At the invitation of Breckenridge Colorado Tourism, Travel Past 50 returned to the Breckenridge Distillery–and a bunch of other Breckenridge sites–in September 2015. During this visit, and since…
Climbing the Cinder Cone at Lassen National Park
Since we’ve been traveling, I’ve done some bold (for me) things. I’ve hiked 120 km in the Guatemalan jungle. I’ve climbed Cradle Mountain in Tasmania. I’ve hiked most of the…
Sunset, Half Dome, Yosemite National Park
Some sunsets are better than others, but that's no excuse to keep from trying. I got up to a point near Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park to shoot the…
Fog, Redwood National Park, California
Driving down the scenic Hwy. 101 between the north and south parts of Redwood National Park. There seems to be fog here most of the time, so why not just…
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
The drive to see the vaunted Crater Lake National Park was interrupted before it got started. We'd stayed north of the park the night before and planned on getting an…
Seven More Reasons to Visit Southern France
Our visits to cities along the Rhône River valley in southern France left us wanting more. After one day in Lyon, for example, Tom was leading us to the Alliance…
Fog, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
Since we started this western road trip, every day has been hot and relentlessly sunny. So when we woke to a foggy, cloudy and rainy sky on the day of…
Sunset on the River, Glacier National Park, Montana
As we were leaving Glacier National Park late in the evening, the sun began to set behind the mountain tops, and as it did, it illuminated McDonald Creek in the…