• a small town downtown with mountains in the background and cloudy skies overhead

    Great Smoky Mountains Road Trip 2024

    I took a road trip in October 2024 up to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and the Smoky Mountains. In the five days I was there, I hiked up several trails, visited a number of waterfalls and enjoyed the crisp fall air in the mountains. Here are my favorite photos. Downtown Gatlinburg Kuwohi Gatlinburg Overlook Natural Tunnel State…

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  • an orange, blue and purple sunrise over the Grand Canyon

    2024 Great Rocky Mountain Adventure

    This summer’s trip is a road trip through Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah (okay only a part of Utah in the Four Corners region) and Arizona. Here’s a gallery of some of my better photos.

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  • A rotunda memorial for Union civil war soldiers in a field

    A Trip to Gettysburg

    On our 2023 family road trip to Philadelphia we spent a good portion of a day taking the auto tour of the Gettysburg battlefield. Here are some of my photos from that tour.

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  • The Washington Memorial in the background with a body of water in the foreground

    Washington, D.C., Trip – 2023

    I’m currently in Washington, D.C., for a solo vacation and WordCamp US 2023 at the end of the week. Here’s a running photo gallery of the photos I’ve taken. I’ll update this throughout the week. You can click on an image to expand it.

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  • Colored lights in a park at night stretching over the roadway and saying "Starbright Village"

    Starbright Village in 2022

    While out in Midland visiting my brother over the Christmas holiday, my family and I went out to the Starbright Village. The free walk-through Christmas lights display was pretty cool to see in person. It wasn’t the largest light display I’ve been to, but hey, if it’s free you might as well check it out….

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  • A Southern Pacific train running passed a yellow depot on a model train layout

    San Diego Model Railroad Museum

    The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is one of the largest model railroad museums in the world. During my trip to San Diego, I took a few hours to check out the four layouts they have in the museum. I highly recommend checking it out at Balboa Park.

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  • A train travels in the mountains

    Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad

    On our vacation trip to New Mexico continued with a day on the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad. This was an incredible journey through the San Juan Mountains. There was so much to see along the entire route. You can read more about the journey in the blog post I wrote on it and our…

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  • A view of the land below the mountain

    Sandia Peak

    We visited Sandia Peak in Albuquerque, New Mexico in July of 2022. The views at the top of the mountain are incredible. There’s something to look at every direction you look. Here are some of the better photos I took on our trip up the mountain. You can read more about out New Mexico trip…

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