Posts in Category: United States
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Graceland – Touring Elvis’ Memphis Home
In my first post from Memphis Alison and I stayed at the legendary Peabody Hotel and enjoyed much of what there is to see in the downtown area. In this post we’ll leave the downtown and head south to spend some time with Elvis Presley. Christmas is a great time to visit Graceland, the colonial […]
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Memphis – A Quick Visit
For the 2023 holiday season, Alison and I opted to hope in the car and drive down to Alabama to play some golf on the RTJ Golf Trail. It would be a quick trip down with one exception, we wanted to spend a few days in Memphis. I had been there years ago on our […]
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Litchfield by the Sea – Why We Love It
As an avid golfer and lover of nature I have long be drawn to the Myrtle Beach area of South Carolina. Ok, you might get the golf, but the Mother Nature part? Since when was that one of Myrtle Beach’s big draws? Since always, if you know where to look and that is to the […]
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Chaco Culture – A must visit in New Mexico
This is my ninth post from the state of New Mexico, and I now understand why it is called The Land of Enchantment. In the last post Alison and I visited Tent Rocks National Monument with its amazing hoodoos and slot canyon. In this post we are heading to a place almost as remote as […]
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Tent Rocks National Monument New Mexico
Our exploration of New Mexico’s natural and historical wonders continues with a visit to Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument or just Tent Rocks as most people call them. Although located not that far from either Santa Fe or Albuquerque this relatively new National Monument (Bill Clinton designated it in 2001) receives a fraction of the […]
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Breaking Bad – Best Tour in Albuquerque
Holed up at home avoiding the Covid-19 virus, I have plenty of time to think about and write up some of the great places we visited in 2019 and early in 2020 before the lockdown. One of the most pleasant surprises was the city of Albuquerque and the many attractions to be found in the […]
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Bandelier National Monument – Visit in Late Fall
My strategy in visiting a major attraction is always to visit during the shoulder season if possible. There will be far fewer people around, the price may be cheaper and the weather is usually still cooperative. In high season in summer you might be baking in a place like New Mexico, while in the late […]
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Albuquerque Museum – Best in New Mexico
In a previous post I wrote about how Alison and were blown away by the El Paso Museum of Art during out stay in the city for the 2019 SATW conference. Frankly, we had not been prepared for such a fine display of art in what is an unfairly overlooked city by tourists. After the […]
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White Sands – New Mexico’s Snowy Desert
Our journey through New Mexico continues with a stop at Roswell, site of the alleged crash of an alien spaceship in 1947. The International UFO Museum & Research Center sounds like a pretty serious institution, but in reality is actually a hokey tourist trap with plenty of photo ops with ETs of all kinds. From […]