Archive for July, 2016
Russell Cave National Monument
It takes about 20 minutes to walk to, look at and get back into your car at the Russell Cave National Monument. That is if you only want to visit the cave. But like so many other units in the National Park Service there is much more to Russell Cave than just a cave and […]
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I happened to tour the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site on just the right day. And at just the right time. According to the park ranger I spoke to, the King Birth Home has an open house every Friday morning from 10 a.m. to noon. Fortunately I arrived on a Friday in early […]
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The Chattanooga unit of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is unlike any other major Civil War battlefield commemorated in the National Park Service I have ever visited. Whereas Shiloh, Gettysburg, Vicksburg and so many others are spread across a wide area, the main portion of the Chattanooga unit is fairly compact. At the […]
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The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Tennessee and Georgia chronicles the highs and lows of a series of Civil War battles for both the Confederacy and the Union. Chickamauga was a significant victory for the Rebel forces, while a few weeks later; the Union turned the tides of war at the Battle of […]
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Presidio of San Francisco
I never traveled much until I went away to college. Up to that point it was a couple of family car trips to the Rocky Mountains and South Dakota. And outside of our honeymoon – we went to Hot Springs, Ark. – I had never really been on vacation or paid for a trip on […]
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