Nature Scenes from South Carolina
Doug and I made several stops to see birds in South Carolina, but mostly they eluded us. Our first stop was the wildlife drive in Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge in Jefferson, but it was …
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Select Sites Around Raleigh, North Carolina
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 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. …
Exploring the Outer Banks
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 …
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A Few Winter Days in Norfolk and Virginia Beach
Here are a few of the random sites we explored during our time in the Norfolk and Virginia Beach area. I liked this statue of King Neptune by Paul DiPasquale on the Virginia Beach boardwalk. …
Selections from the Delmarva Peninsula
This post is from several unrelated spots around the Delmarva Peninsula over the last year, including one stop that has been too heartbreaking to look at. The Delmarva Peninsula is that dangle of land dropping …
Assateague Island National Seashore
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 …
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
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 …
Montreal Insectarium
Insects are not really our thing. But our Montreal Museum Card included admission to most of the museums in the city (those museum cards get us every time), and we were practically right there when …
Montreal Biodôme
The Montreal Biodôme in Canada was originally built for the 1976 Olympic Games as a velodrome (cycling stadium). In 1989 renovations began, and it is now an indoor zoo/aquarium/museum that invites you visit four ecosystems, …