Today’s featured mountain range is…The Appalachians! America’s First Western Frontier. And…Our very own backyard. 🙂 The Appalachian Mountains are the largest and most significant mountain range east of the Mississippi River. They are a very old range of mountains (nearly 500 million years), very much worn down by the passage of time, and this accounts both for their […]
Which is the ‘best’ US National Park?
Which is the ‘best’ US National Park? Obviously a subjective question, and part of that subjectivity comes with what exactly you are looking for in a park. Car camping vs hiking, mountains vs. desert, etc. But one thing is obvious…a whole bunch of people like to go to National Parks, and a sizable percentage of them go to […]
Monarch Butterfly Migration
Recently we went to Southport, NC to celebrate Sylvia’s birthday (Sylvia insists on having a birthday EVERY single year.) While we were there, we caught the Monarch Butterfly migration as it was passing through. Though it is far less well known than bird migrations, Monarch Butterflies do migrate South to warmer climates during the winter. In the Western US these […]
OH, BOUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome to the New Blog! We are recently back from a trip to Southport, NC celebrating Sylvia’s annual birthday! She insists on having birthday every single year. Our BecauseItzThere on WordPress is now open for business, but the old legacy site will stay out there for a while…until Google shuts it down or reclaims the storage […]