When Accidents Happen: Tips and Ideas if it Happens to You. Accidents happen. My husband and I were both healthy when we started our three-week trip driving trip from Colmar, France through the Rhine and Mosel Rivers, Bavaria and the Austrian Salzkammergut (Salzburg, Hallstatt and Gosausee), finishing in Vienna. As we were parking our […]
Rothenburg Germany Imperial Festival
Rothenburg Germany, a popular stopping place on the Romantic Road, is known for its many festivals. In Rothenburg, Germany, on any given stop, you can easily find yourself in the middle of a festival. This happened to my husband and I during a long-planned trip when we were delighted to find ourselves in the midst of […]
Burano, Italy, the Traditional
Lace-Making Island
Photos capture memories that tell a story. And it’s the stories behind the photos that give them added meaning. So it is with these photographs from Burano, Italy, the traditional lace-making island in the Venetian Lagoon. My husband and I were on a three-week self-guided tour of Italy and stopped for several nights in Venice. […]
West Kern County Oil Museum: Tower, Derrick
West Kern County Oil Museum: Museum Location From Maricopa through the valleys and hills to McKittrick, Taft, located about 25 miles southwest of Bakersfield, has become the center of the Kern County Oil history legacy. West Kern County Oil Museum: Tower, Derrick “Where is that?” The formal title belies its location. The Taft Oil […]
Photographing Fog and Mist
Location: Lassen National Park Photographing fog and mist was only one of the incredible challenges nature provided us one morning.https://roadtrippers.com/stories/lassen-volcanic-national-park?lat=40.80972&lng=-96.67528&z=5 On one of several trips to Lassen National Park, my husband and I went on an overnight backpacking trip to see part of the interior of this great National Park that wasn’t accessible by car. […]