Happily married 55 years, retired baby boomer, mother of 2, grandmother of 4, traveler, Georgia Bulldog fan, Air Force Brat, avid reader, amateur photographer, gardener, ovarian cancer survivor, blogger. Every day is a gift!
We’re going on a treasure hunt this week for the photo challenge. Tina has asked us to find the items listed below.
Challenge Items: Sunrise and/or sunset, Something cold and/or hot, a bird, a dog, a funny sign, a bicycle, a seascape and/or mountain landscape, a rainbow, a church, a musical instrument, a boat, a plane, a waterfall.
Extra Credit Items: An expressive portrait of one or more people, a very unusual place, knitting or sewing, a fish, an animal you don’t normally see, a bucket, a hammer, a street performer, a double rainbow, multiple challenge items in a single image.
Sunrise, seascape, and birdsColdDogBicyclesFunny sign in Luckenbach, TexasDouble RainbowRussian Orthodox Church in Ninilchik, AlaskaMusical InstrumentsShrimp Boat – do you see the dolphin fin behind the boat?U.S.A.F. ThunderbirdsWaterfallHammer Museum in Haines, AlaskaBird with fish
The manatee at the top of the page is my choice for an animal I don’t normally see.
For this week’s challenge Amy has chosen “narrow” as this week’s theme. Here’s a quote from Amy’s post:
“Travel has taught me that once we go through a narrow path, alley, and/or road with a little patience, at the end it always opens up to pleasant surprises. This experience certainly has broadened my horizon allowing me to see the world through different eyes.”
Amy is so right! We like to travel on the back roads and a few times drove down a dirt or gravel road just to see where it went. As I read Amy’s challenge I immediately thought of some of those many narrow roads.
Most recently, Henry not only had to master driving on the left but also on narrow roads in Ireland and Scotland. And yes, the roads pictured here are two lane roads!
Slea Head Drive, Dingle Peninsula, IrelandIsle of Skye, Scotland
Towing our fifth wheel trailer across the Top of the World Highway with no guard rails in the Yukon was a white knuckle experience. We kept our fingers crossed that we wouldn’t meet a truck going the other way! The scenery was spectacular.
Traveling above the tree line on the Top of the World Highway in Yukon Territory, Canada
We had many adventures on narrow roads while traveling around the United States, too. To get to Cataloochee Valley in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park we had to go down this dirt and gravel Cove Creek Road.
Hairpin Turn Cove Creek Road
There are plenty of narrow roads in Texas.
We drove on many narrow Texas roads in search of Texas BluebonnetsYes, we towed our fifth wheel down this narrow road into Palo Duro Canyon in Texas
There were some memorable narrow roads in Mississippi Delta of Arkansas.
The Great River Road in Arkansas follows the Mississippi River
For the past 40 years we have lived less than 30 minutes from Savannah’s beautiful historic district and until this week, we had never spent any time really touring the city. Last year our Christmas present to each other was tickets to see Willie Nelson in concert and a two night stay in a hotel where we could walk to the concert and be tourists for a couple of days.
The concert was the highlight of our getaway. Once Willie started playing his guitar you would have never known he is 86 years old. Opening the show with “Whiskey River” he played and sang for over an hour and a half. We loved every minute of it and so did everyone else in the audience.
Willie Nelson in Savannah, Georgia
Savannah has been featured in many movies, books, and television shows and is frequently listed as one of the most popular cities to visit in the United States. A popular way to see the city and learn a little of its history is to take a Trolley Tour
The day after the concert was our day to be tourists and do some things we’ve never done before. We started by enjoying a fantastic southern lunch at Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room. We were seated family style at a table for 8 and enjoyed talking to the other guests while we enjoyed the wonderful food.
Next up was a tour with Old Town Trolley, one of several tour companies in the city. Our guide Lillie Belle was entertaining and we learned things about Savannah’s history we had never heard before. Here’s a little show with a few of the highlights from the tour.
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Having a little get away in the middle of the week was a fun way to start off Valentine’s week. Tonight we’ll celebrate at home with grilled steaks and all the trimmings.
For this weeks challenge, guest challenger Viveka of My Guilty Pleasures has chosen capital as our challenge. When I saw the challenge I immediately thought of my Dad and his quest to take photos of all 50 United States Capitals. I’m taking the challenge literally and have chosen a few shots of state capital buildings I’ve taken through the years.
I inherited many of my traits from my father including his love of travel and his love of photography. I have so many memories from my child hood of him taking photos with his Minolta 35mm camera. He would send the rolls of film off in the mail to be processed into slides. When he got them back our family would gather around to see his slide show. Through the years he accumulated thousands of slides.
After Dad retired, he and Mom continued to make road trips all around the United States. His goal was to photograph every state capital. And he did!
I never had that goal when we traveled around the United States but whenever I had a chance I would snap a shot of a state capital. I only have a few and some where taken through the window of the truck as we drove by.
This post is in memory of my Dad and his slides of all 50 U.S. Capitals.
Columbia, South CarolinaCharleston, West VirginiaState Capital in Madison, WisconsinCapital Building in Juneau, Alaska
Wandering Dawgs 