Discover Lynn’s Travels and Other Retirement Nonsense

We started our January visit to the park from Marathon and drove to the Persimmon Gap Visitor Center. There is a great natural trail...

Our trip began on 1/5/22 with a one night stay at the Gage hotel in Marathon. The Gage seems to be most of Marathon and continues to...

A Dogs Christmas We don't have grandchildren at the house, we have grand dogs and senior dogs. They represent family interactions on the...

Again, we were able to visit through the eyes of locals. Our daughter and son-in-law showed us some fine areas sans the crowds. We went...

I have been on the Blue Ridge Parkway a few times. In my opinion, you need to do a very small portion of the 469 miles at a time. It...

When you travel, you happen on little gems. If you stopped at all of them, you would never make it to your destination. Just change the...

Shenandoah is a magnificent forest and I look forward to returning some June when the rhododendrons are blooming. You could see their...

Family visits don't entail as many non family pictures. We had a lovely visit and got personal tours of Annapolis, the Capital Building...

Colonial Historical National Park is situated between the York and James River. It has so much history and nature to see, that you could...

I love these long leaf pines on the outer banks. We caught the Ocracoke-Hatteras ferry to Hatteras, just at sunset. We lucked into The...

The Outer Banks is a very long skinny strip of barrier island. It has miles of open beach and marshlands. We drove up to Emerald Island,...

We had a great time visiting Carolina Beach and Wilmington. We did not get many nonfamily pictures. There was the outer bands of...

We headed out East to visit family and friends and attend a wedding. Rather than take the freeway, we hopped on the Natchez Trace Parkway...

We were delighted with Crested Butte. When we first drove into town we were a bit disappointed because it is so dry. A lady informed us...

We went through this National Park on our way to Crested Butte. Like most of the west, you go from green trees into very dry areas. Most...

Ouray is one of my favorite places to visit. Change is slow and the names of businesses are replaced, but it's size doesn't change much....

The Million Dollar Highway is named for both its cost and its magnificence. It is about a 70 mile trip from Durango to Silverton to Ouray...

Mesa verde is a National Park with Native American cliff dwellings over a 1000 years old. I have the utmost respect for the Native...

Heading to Durango from Taos, the almost half way is Chama. It is a lovely road this Highway 64 through mountain and canyon. We hit a...