Thanksgiving weekend. Did you leave your house? Then you’ll completely understand this week’s theme: most crowded National Park Sites. On Monday we went to the crowdiest of them all: Yosemite. But not every crowded Park Site teems with people because of their extreme popularity. Some, like Manassas National Battlefield Park, just happen to be located [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Crowded Park Week: Lincoln Memorial
Posted in National Memorial, tagged Crowded Parks on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Crowded Park Week: Manassas National Battlefield
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Did you leave your house last weekend? Then you’ll completely understand this week’s theme: most crowded National Park Sites. On Monday we went to the crowdiest of them all: Yosemite. But not every crowded Park Site teems with people because of their extreme popularity. Some just happen to be located in population centers.
Battlefield sites are [...]
Crowded Park Week: Yosemite National Park
Posted in National Parks, tagged California, Crowded, National Park on November 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Did you leave your house last weekend? Then you’ll completely understand this week’s theme: most crowded National Park Sites. First up is the crowdiest of them all: Yosemite.
Over 3,000,000 people pack into Yosemite NP every year, most of them visiting only the Yosemite Valley, home to all the marquee attractions. In addition, the tourists come [...]
Thanksgiving Week: Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Appropriation of History, Bewitched, Commercialization, Massachusetts, Puritans, Thanksgiving, Witch Trials on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing says Thanksgiving like turkey, football, and pilgrims. We took care of the turkey bits at Mammoth Cave National Park and the football at Wyoming’s Fossil Butte National Monument. (See Below) But what about the pilgrims? Through vociferous readings of our website we are sure that you know that there is no National Park Site [...]
Thanksgiving Week: Fossil Butte National Monument
Posted in Uncategorized on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing says Thanksgiving like turkey, football, and pilgrims. We took care of the turkey bits at Mammoth Cave National Park. Today we talk about the football. Puritans will follow.
We’re driving through one of the more sparsely populated places in the lower 48’s most sparsely populated state. Southwest Wyoming. The sagebrush and large flat buttes never [...]
Thanksgiving Week: Turkeys at Mammoth Cave National Park
Posted in National Parks, tagged Caves, great campsites, Kentucky, Thanksgiving, Turkey on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mammoth Cave’s Thanksgiving connection is probably lost on anyone except the usa-c2c.com team. Here’s a hint: look at the accompanying picture. Yes indeedy, Mammoth Cave is where we saw the trip’s first wild turkey. What a turkey it was! His red gullet was swinging, his large breast was fully puffed, his feathers were furled, and [...]
Veterans Day: Port Chicago Magazine National Memorial
Posted in National Memorial, tagged California, Soldiers, Tragedy, Veterans Day on November 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In honor of Veterans Day, today we are remembering a forgotten set of American servicemen, the 200 that were killed by the 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine and the 50 seamen who were then wrongfully charged with mutiny and, over 50 years later, offered a pardon by the President of the United [...]
Shenendoah National Park
Posted in National Parks, tagged Blue Ridge Mountains, Unvisited, Virginia on November 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
western Virginia
Visited: Sometime Soon
NPS Site Visited: Not There Yet
NPS Website
Our plan was to sneak down to Shenandoah NP for a few days after our office’s annual conference. We thought the first week in November would be prime foliage falling season.
Just as we were packing our bags we received a surprise email from our friend Italo [...]
