Parkcation

We made a spur of the moment decision one Saturday afternoon in early June to head to Ithaca and Rob’s alma mater, Cornell University. In all the years we’d been together, I had never seen where Rob spent his undergraduate years, and he hadn’t been back since shortly after graduation himself. Since the weather inContinue reading

Still excited by the meteorological event of last week (the northern lights), we turned our eyes to the sky once again to see a different type of event – a rare comet with a large tail that came within 44 million miles of Earth – Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. It was present in the westernContinue reading

We have been talking about seeing the aurora borealis off and on for some time. There was a time last winter when I proposed that we book tickets to the Aurora Capital of North America – Yellowknife – because flights from Philadelphia with multiple stops were actually pretty reasonable for a remote Canadian town northContinue reading

California boasts nine national parks, more than any other state. And we were able to check another one off our list on our recent trip to California when we took the Island Packers cruise out of Ventura for a day on Santa Cruz Island in Channel Islands National Park. Channel Islands was our sixth nationalContinue reading

We have always thought about Parkcation as a site about our adventures in the national parks and other sites in the national park system plus related organizations (national forests, national wildlife refuges). But from time to time we like to visit other “parks” with our family – zoos, amusement parks and urban/suburban parks for example.Continue reading

As we finished up our family fourth of July vacation in Grand Junction, we decided that we would take a detour to visit my last state in the contiguous United States – North Dakota. I have been working my way through the remaining states that I have yet to visit in the United States inContinue reading

On the day after our July 4th celebration we drove up to Grand Mesa with the family to do some trout fishing. Jayne and her brother grew up fishing with their dad on the lakes of the Mesa. Grand Mesa is a 500 square mile flat-top mountain at more than 10,000 feet in elevation withContinue reading

We set our sights for the week of July 4th on a family trip to Grand Junction, Colorado. We already have family there, and we were able to coordinate with other family to meet them out there from Denver and Houston. So it was a nice big family reunion for a summer vacation. It alwaysContinue reading

Captain Anthony Awgul took my dad and I out on Lake Nockamixon to go punching for bass – one of the many techniques that he uses to catch fish on this popular Philadelphia lake that is notorious for holding, and being difficult to catch, big bass. We grabbed breakfast at the Roy Ann Diner inContinue reading