Category: USA

This page contains pictures and information about camping trips and other travel within the US. It also includes visits that family members and others made to our area and home. It is arranged chronologically starting with the most recent trip/visit. Scroll down to see all the entries. One of my lifetime goals has been to visit all the national parks in the US. When Donna & I travel, we also go out of our way to visit national monuments, seashores, memorials, battlefields, preserves, parkways, recreation areas, rivers, scenic trails, lakeshores and national historic sites. So, you may wonder ‐ why have I chosen this as a goal? The answer is simple – as a citizen of this great country, I, like you, am one of the many owners of these national treasures. As such, I consider it a priority to go visit what I own and enjoy the scenic wonders, the incredible memorials, and the cherished wilderness that so many have fought and died to give us this privilege. Having said that, I dedicate this section of my website to my parents, my kids and grandkids; and the rest of my family, especially my wife, who have honored my traveling addiction over the last several decades.

Hatch, NM Chile Festival – September 2006

This was a trip Donna & I took with my parents to see the Hatch Chile festival. Hatch is the Chile pepper capital of the world.

There’s nothing like a Hatch chili burger

Let’s see – what shall I buy today – lots of cool stuff

Albuquerque Visit – September 2006

We drove to Albuquerque, NM to check out solar panels and visit an Indian dance ceremony. Great trip.

Silver City / Bisbee – August 2006

This was another camping adventure to some of the nearby sites in New Mexico and Arizona. We visited Silver City, the Gila Monument, Tombstone and Bisbee, Arizona as well as Seguaro National Park. Our tours included going into an abandon gold mine and visiting a cave. Good trip.

White Sands Picnic – July 2006

We went to White Sands with the whole family to have a picnic and enjoy riding the saucers down the hills. This was our first outing after we moved to the El Paso area.

Carey & Donna at White Sands National Monument

Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert, creating the world’s largest gypsum dunefield. White Sands National Park preserves a major portion of this unique dunefield, along with the plants and animals that live here.

Wheeling, WV – December 2005

We were living in Pennsylvania at this time. We drove here to see the Christmas light display.

The Oglebay Winter Festival of Lights at the Oglebay Resort in Wheeling, West Virginia, is one of the nation’s largest and most extravagant holiday light shows in the U.S.

The Oglebay Winter Festival of Lights covers over 300 acres over a 6-mile drive throughout the Oglebay Resort. Ninety displays and over 1 million lights are featured in this celebration, and the entire event has been converted to use energy-efficient, brilliant LED.

Memphis, TN – December 2005

We were on a trip to El Paso to look for a home. On the way we stopped in Memphis, TN to visit Graceland – the original home of Elvis.

The tour of Graceland Mansion includes the living room, Elvis’ parents’ bedroom, the kitchen, TV room, pool room, the famous Jungle Room, his father’s office, the newly-enhanced Trophy Building, the Racquetball Building – newly-restored to how it looked in 1977, and Meditation Garden.

New Hampshire RV Trip – October 2005

This is the first trip we took with our new camper that I bought two days after I retired from Hershey. We went to the White Mountains of New Hampshire during the fall foliage. It was beautiful – the best time of the year in the northeast.

Hiking in the White Mountains, New Hampshire

Watkins Glenn Camping Trip – July 2005

This is the first camping trip that Donna & I took together. We actually stayed in a tent and a had a great time. We did some hiking at the state park and enjoyed a campfire at night.

Hiking the Gorge Trail in Watkins Glen State Park

One of the incredible landscapes on the Gorge Trail – Watkins Glen State Park

Washington DC (Dad) – May 2005

We visited the World War II memorial in Washington DC with my Mom & Dad. My dad is a WW II veteran and he wanted to go there to honor his fellow veterans who fought in the war.

Mom & Dad – WW II Memorial – Washington DC

There are 56 pillars in the background which represent all the US states and territories

Visit to El Paso from PA – November 2004

Donna & I drove to El Paso to visit my Mom & Dad and the rest of the family. We were still living in York, PA at the time so this was a Thanksgiving holiday visit.