One of the final adventures of our time at Acadia National Park last September was visiting Cadillac Mountain. I remembered visiting here with my parents when I was a kid, and deciding that it must be called Cadillac Mountain because a Cadillac is a car and you can drive to the top it. I thought…
The National Park Service in the United States began on August 25, 1916. However, the first national park was actually established many years earlier, when Yellowstone National Park was created in 1872. Since then, over 400 units make up the system, including parks, preserves, memorials, recreation areas, historic sites, and more. I am lucky to…
On day 8, we headed for the border! I haven’t been to Canada since visiting Prince Edward Island with my family back in the early 2000s, and I have never been this far west in Canada at all, so it was very exciting to enter our neighbor to the north. We crossed the border in…
On the way from Gillette, WY to Yellowstone, we stopped at the Buffalo Bill Dam for a little break. Really we just wanted to stretch our legs, but we ended up enjoying the quick tour around the top of the dam and the informative visitor’s center. The dam was built in the early 1900s as…
One of my favorite days of our whole honeymoon was our Blue Mountains day trip in Australia, for a few reasons. First of all, we got there via motorcycle, which was so fun. We usually love taking rides on my husband’s motorcycle at home, but being so busy with wedding plans meant it had been…
Cairns was a brilliant starting point when it came to exploring the Daintree Rainforest area of Australia, and with just one day we managed to see a lot. We set off bright and early from our hotel, heading straight to the Captain Cook Highway and making our first stop at the gorgeous Rex Lookout. There…
Kings Canyon ended up being a paradoxical place for me- it was the site of my favorite hike but least favorite campsite. In fact, we were so unimpressed with it that we cut our trip there one night short and ended up heading back to the town of Alice Springs earlier than we had planned.…
We spent almost a week in Australia’s Red Centre and we saw some pretty amazing things. Few, however, were as amazing as the legendary rock formations known as Uluru and Kata Tjuta, especially when we got the chance to see them from a bird’s eye view. We had set up camp at Ayers Rock Resort,…
I’m sure you have heard of five star hotels. They are the ones with all the amenities, world class service, spacious rooms, grand views… Five star hotels are nice, but have you ever tried a five billion star hotel? These may not have gourmet restaurants, Jacuzzi tubs, pillow menus, or concierges- many don’t even have…
“Well, that’s a little presumptuous.” We had pulled the motorcycle up to the booth at the Mount Washington Auto Road and paid the $24 fee (and if that seems expensive consider that being in a car would have made it $36). When the man in the booth handed us our change and receipt, we were…
the files of a traveling daydreamer 