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Trip Guide: Columbia, Missouri
When my Mizzou Tigers left the Big 12 Conference to move to the Southeastern Conference in 2012, one of the few benefits I could see was that this could be my excuse for visiting areas of the country where I haven’t traveled much. Yet one of the obvious downsides for me is that same geography. I’m no longer in the heart of my team’s conference – my home base of Wichita, Kansas, allowed me to get to nearly all of the Big 12 towns easily. My husband, Lee, and I made one road trip during the Tigers’ inaugural SEC football season, going to Columbia, South Carolina, in September 2012. As…
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Trip pix: Big Bend National Park teaser
I’ve been slow to post here lately because Lee & I were on a marathon road trip, stories from which I’m sure will make it to this blog eventually! We started with a drive from Wichita to Dallas so I could go to the P!nk concert (watch the amazeballs 70 second clip of her concert performance at that link, you can thank me later!) while Lee visited with cousins. Then we set out to drive to the far southwest part of Texas to explore Big Bend National Park. I have some great photos that I hope to sort through soon, but for now here are a few to give you an idea…
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Trip pix: Pittsburgh with an h
I’ve had a few readers ask me about the photo in my blog header so I thought I’d share the story behind it. No, it’s not a stock image I purchased – but thank you to those who think my photography work is good enough to sell :-) Back in August 2010 when Lee & I were meandering around Pittsburgh, I thought to myself: I shouldn’t have worn these sandals. Oh, and look at this cool view. I should take a photo of this old viewfinder because it’ll go well with the blog I will likely start in two and a half years. OK, what really happened: I was trying…
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Photo essay: Happy & sad
I spent minutes working on this photo essay to express the range of my emotions. I hope you all can relate.
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Trip pix: The beauty of an ugly horse
Sharing another favorite travel photo. This one was taken at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary in Hot Springs, South Dakota. It’s in the southern part of the state, below Mt. Rushmore and Custer State Park. You can make a donation to the sanctuary to take a tour by truck of just a tiny slice of the 11,000 acres of private land dedicated to giving “America’s unwanted wild horses a quality life.” So when we started the tour, I was taking photos as fast as I could. I was listening to the tour guide while thinking to myself, “No wonder nobody wants these horses, geez they are ugly.” Then the guide…