Our Journey ...

We enjoy traveling and we LOVE national parks, and world heritage sites . Every year, we visit a few places; some we have been to many times. We enjoy both the natural and the cultural aspects of traveling: seeing natural wonders and visiting historic sites -- churches, temples, castles and ruins -- and spending days in museums, and trying local food.

2022 

We took shorter trips whenever possible and took a dream vacation in Italy during the holiday break.

• Dec -- Italy
  • Venecia

    

    

  • Fizenze -- the cradle of the Italian Renaissance

    

    

  • Roma

    

    

    

  • Pompei

    

  • Toscana (Siena, Pisa, San Gimignano)

    

    

    

• Nov -- San Diego County

  • San Diego Zoo Safari Park

    

  • Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

    

• Oct -- Southern Utah and Northern Arizona
  • Paria Townsite, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah

    

  • Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, Utah

    

  • Peek-a-boo Canyon, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah

    

    

  • White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona

    

    

  • Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

    This was our eighth or nineth time visiting Grand Canyon. It is as breath-taking as ever. We met some lovely mountain goats on our hike down the canyon and had the pleasure to be charged by a big-horn ram.

    

• July -- California Coastline

  

  

• Jan -- Joshua Tree National Park