Janice's Travels
Monday, May 13, 2019
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Broadway in New Orleans 2018-2019
The 2018-2019 season of Broadway in New Orleans was a very special treat with both Les Miserables and Hamilton on the Play List. Both musicals were excellent performances. It was a wonderful surprise when I saw Hamilton on the list for this season at the Saenger Theater. It definitely lived up to all expectations.
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Mount Rushmore Roadtrip 2018

A visit to South Dakota to see the Mount Rushmore National Memorial was a trip full of interesting surprises. The road trip from Rapid City to get there was a great adventure in itself.

We began the day with a stop at the Crazy Horse Memorial. This mountain carving began in 1948 and is still in progress now. Its purpose is to honor the Indians of North America and is funded only by admission fees and private donations.
Our next stop on our scenic road trip was beautiful Sylvan Lake. There was a trail around the lake for hiking and people fishing from its banks. A great place for a picnic!
We continued our road trip on Needles Highway, a 14 mile adventure winding through granite spiked mountains and sometimes through one-way tunnels so tight you wondered if the car would fit. It was a masterpiece of a road!
The views were spectacular up close
or in the distance.
Needles Highway led to the entrance of Custer State Park. Here the 18 mile Wildlife Loop Road wandered through open grassland and pine speckled hills. We quickly spied deer and turkeys, but the stars of the park were the buffalo. They held up traffic while crossing the road to join other buffalo.

Often the they walked right by the car so it was easy to take up close pictures.

A mother donkey and her young colt did keep their distance out in the field with the prairie dogs.
We continued our road trip to Mount Rushmore on the 18 mile Iron Mountain Road. This road twisted and turned through the magnificent Black Hills scenery with pigtail bridges and tunnels that framed Mount Rushmore. Another masterpiece of road design.
With every curve Mount Rushmore kept getting closer
and closer.
until we reached our destination.
What a grand entrance both on the road and on the plaza with its towers of flags of the 50 states.
We could have reached Mount Rushmore more quickly if we had approached it by way of the city of Keystone. But we would have missed out on a wonderful adventure.
Monday, July 30, 2018
Llamas in the Smoky Mountains 2018


The llamas were very calm and let us pet them and feed them alfalfa snacks.

Saturday, May 5, 2018
Antelope Canyon April 2018


We entered the canyon through what appeared to be a big crack in the rocks.
My camera immediately found unusual beauty which ever way I aimed it.
With the help of our imagination the sunlight traveling through cracks in the canyon and the rock formations became pictures.
a heart?
Monument Valley?
a shark?
a horse?
An experience not to be forgotten.
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Utah's National Parks-the Mighty 5
One week was really not enough to do justice to Utah's Mighty 5 National Parks in southern Utah. But we saw lots of amazing things in our time there. I took lots of pictures but none of them cause you to feel the hugeness of the scenery about us. Majestic is a good word to describe it all.


There were more sights to see at every curve of the road.

There were completely different types of wonders to see at Bryce Canyon National Park. The canyon filled with huge hoodoos was like being on different planet.
We had a light snow that morning which only added to the beauty.

We continued our drive through central southern Utah to the town of Moab on the east side of the state. This area contains Arches National Park and Canyonland National Park.

Arches was probably our favorite of the parks we visited. It was so massive and contained the most unusual rock formations.


Arches National Park contains over 2,000 natural sand stone arches. We didn't see them all but we did see a bunch!

We discovered that the Colorado River travels through Moab. A quick trip along its banks led us to discover some rock climbers and even some pyroglyphics.
We did not make it to Canyonland National Park. It is a huge park and needed a whole day for just it.
We drove through Monument Valley on our way to Arizona. Monument Valley is not a national park. It is part of Navajo land. You will recognize the scene from the movie "Forest Gump".
Utah's Mighty 5 were pretty terrific!
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