Nature's Canvas

Carlsbad Caverns National Park is right across the border into New Mexico from Guadalupe Mountains National Park. In fact, and this I did not know, Carlsbad Caverns National Park is in the Guadalupe Mountains range, and there are more than 300 caves within the Captain Reef fossil reef of the park. I had been to […]

The last two National Parks I visited in Texas were Big Bend National Park, located in southwest Texas along the Rio Grande River, and Guadalupe Mountains National Park, located in western Texas on the border of New Mexico. I’ll start with the 801,163-acre Big Bend National Park. The name is appropriate because of the big […]

As most of you know, I am on a National Park hunt, and as I am moving about the country, I am finding exceptional historic parks and monuments under the National Park Service. One of them is the San Antonio Missions National Historic Park, a group of four missions built by the Spanish in the […]

Louisiana. Where do I start with my adventure to Louisiana? I guess my adventure started with researching National Parks in the state. Did you know there is a National Park and National Park Visitor Center in the French Quarter in New Orleans? The French Quarter, and the Mardi Gras, has always intrigued me, but I […]

And the journey begins. I left Minnesota just over a week ago and, honestly, I don’t miss the cold at all!! Though the variety of weather I experienced the month I was there was a typical Minnesota winter/spring – about 19 below when I arrived to nearly 50 degrees about three weeks later, to a […]