Travel
Columbian Style
I realize that I am a little behind the times by blogging about our trip to Columbia over a month after returning. But in my defense, April was a very crazy month in the Smart household. But I won’t get into that here. I’m sure the pictures from our phones don’t quite do the trip…
Read MoreHappy Mother’s Day
Ended a fun Mother’s day with a trip to the beach, which included putting our feet in the ocean, the playground, ice cream, and of course posing for a few pictures taken by “the mother”. This was one of my favs!!!
Read MoreWhat Happened to the Summer
It’s been a truly amazing summer. I honestly don’t know how to recap all of it and I know I don’t have the time to do so either. So I’ll just focus on the last couple weeks. Last weekend we took Helena to the New York Aquarium while we were visiting Auntie Bunny. I’m not…
Read MoreA Week Without My Girls
My girls are back from a 1 week tour of Ohio and I couldn’t be happier. Since I wasn’t there I can’t speak too much about what they did, but they did seem to have fun. Helena is getting to be an excellent traveller apparently and she loved the zoo too. I myself learned that…
Read MoreHello Guadalupe and Carlsbad Caverns
After saying goodbye to Big Bend National Park and a long drive (about 300 miles or so) we said hello to our next national park, Guadalupe Mountain NP. It’s definitely small by National Park standards but very pretty. We decided to hike into McKittrick Canyon despite being road weary and a little hiked out after…
Read MoreGoodbye Big Bend
We left BigBend this afternoon and had an amazing time there. Only real downside was the smog from Mexico, which was obscuring some views depending on which way the wind was blowing. Yesterday we let the smog dictate a different hike mid way through. We started up Emory peak, but opted for the South Rim…
Read MoreFarm to Market Road
Below are a few highlights of our drive from Marfa (along the Rio Grande) to Big Bend National Park. We seemed to stop every 5 min because it was so beautiful and you know how we love our pictures. We did a couple short hikes and had a wonderful picnic overlooking some enormous plateaus/mesas. We…
Read MoreTexas Sunset
We flew Manchester to Orlando, then to Houston and finally to El Paso yesterday and were only delayed about 20 min total. We followed that up with about a 4 hour drive to Marfa, TX to set us up for this morning. It’s worth noting that we also found a slightly seedy Mexican restaurant for…
Read MoreSeptember 2010 Pictures Posted
We have been trying to only post pictures once a month, both for our sanity and the sanity of others, but we’ve had some unofficial complaints from sources who will remain nameless. All I can say is that we will try to upload more often. At this moment Helena is treating me to a now…
Read MoreOH – IO !!
Enjoying the season opener for Ohio State with my beautiful wife!! Go Bucks!
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