
In a few days we’ll be heading off to Montana and meeting our friends, Keith and Paula, to go explore Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park. Yes, I know that 96% of Yellowstone is in Wyoming and only 3% in Montana (the other 1% is in Idaho), but all of our lodging is in…

Day 3 of our Dahlonega trip found us exploring downtown Dahlonega mid-morning Friday. It was pretty quiet and few shops were open yet, so we wandered around a bit. We found the old Presbyterian Church from 1900, now used by the Catholics since the mid-1960s. It had an interesting Japanese Maple growing by it. One…

In early August, we flew into Charlotte, North Carolina, because we had American Airlines credits to use by the middle of August and it was one of nine US airports with non-stop flights from Houston on AA (we didn’t want to mess with connections). After booking, we had to decide what to do once we…