Road Trip Food: What to eat, What to Pack, and How to Save Money
Everything you want to know about eating on a road trip.
Sparkling Isolation – Days 151 through 247
I’m still here. At the beginning of the pandemic, I don’t think most of us thought it would last this long – at least the quarantine part. Alas, here we …
Sparkling Isolation – Days 144 through 150
What day is it? Last week, I posted my first ‘weekly’ version of this series. I realized that I was repeating myself too often and felt that it was time …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 54
Some day. Mother’s Day always makes me melancholy. My mother died in 2003 and since then this holiday has become a reminder of what was lost. Oh, I know that …
EBR-1 Atomic Museum and Arco Idaho
Driving through Jackson, Wyoming, was like driving through a pinball machine. Bells and whistles everywhere tried to distract us, but we had to keep our eyes on the prize: Arco, …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 39
April showers. Today has been a cold, wet, rather gloomy day. In the past, during spring months when the weather can be so changeable and so often dismal like this, …
Sparkling Isolation – Day 25
Don’t borrow trouble. I remember my mother using that phrase frequently and today I needed to remember her pithy advice. I have always had a rather pessimistic view of life. …
The Local Tourist is 2018 Top 20 Travel Blog in the World
The Local Tourist is the 19th top travel blog in the world for 2018, according to Everything-Everywhere.com. The site, run by world-renowned photographer and travel writer Gary Arndt, ranked more than 250 websites.