The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
We spent several days bopping around Raleigh, North Carolina. We did several walks hoping to see birds and got pretty lucky, primarily in Battle Park in Rocky Mount (east of Raleigh), William B. Umstead State …
North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina, is free and has three Monets on display. It has a number of other big names, but those somehow didn’t have much of interest to me. …
This was our first time visiting the Outer Banks area of North Carolina – or OBX, if you’re in the know – and we liked it quite a bit, but probably because we went out …
Assateague Island National Seashore is most famous for being home to a herd of wild horses. I had been once a long time ago, but Doug had never been. Since we were in the area …
We took our van on the 3.5 mile paved Wildlife Drive at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge, Md. We were not disappointed (other than in the lack of spots to pull over!). There …
The National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Penn is the largest aviary in the US. It is not government-operated as the “national” in its title implies, but an independent non-profit that was accorded honorary “National” status by …
