Archive for February, 2013
Even though I grew up in Kansas City, it wasn’t until after I married a girl from Independence that I first visited the Harry S Truman Library in that city. And it was decades later before I toured the Truman Home on Delaware Street near downtown Independence. Ironically it was my wife Carole’s first visit […]
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Canaveral National Seashore
I have been to Canaveral National Seashore on the Atlantic side of Florida twice before. But this time I really visited the National Park Service site. Canaveral National Seashore is a barrier island near the Kennedy Space Center. In fact, in years past I have been able to see the Space Shuttle on the launch […]
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Washington D.C. is filled with National Park Service sites. The city is dotted with monuments honoring our nation’s great leaders and historical sites. Drive a short distance outside of the capital and you’ll run across Civil War battlefields, historic homes and birthplaces of famous people, and natural delights. So it would be easy for a […]
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Mount Rainier National Park
It’s been a few years since I toured Mount Rainier National Park, but I’ll never forget how the mountain dominated the landscape traveling into and out of Seattle. As I was driving north into Washington’s largest city you can’t help but notice how massive Mount Rainier is. At an evaluation of 14,410 it is one […]
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