Tag: hiking
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Park # 43: Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park (and Mauna Kea)
We devoted Monday to visiting Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, home of Kīlauea, the most active volcano in the world. Kīlauea has been in an active eruption pattern since December 2024, with eruptions of 7-24 hours every 1-3 weeks. Like all of Hawai’i’s volcanoes, it is a shield volcano rather than the more explosive composite volcanoes…
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Hello, Hilo
On Friday night, I caught an overnight flight from American Samoa back to Honolulu (arriving just in time for sunrise), connecting to a Saturday morning flight to Hilo on the southeast shore of Hawai’i’s Big Island. My parents picked me up from the airport, as they had already arrived a few days before and Margaret…
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Talofa, American Samoa!
I landed in American Samoa late on Wednesday night. The airport experience was a bit representative of American Samoa’s peculiar relationship with the U.S. as a whole. U.S. citizens arriving in American Samoa from a U.S. airport still have to go through immigration, present their passports, fill out a customs declaration form, and have their…
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Wrapping Up 2024
So long 2024, and hello 2025! With everything that occupied my attention when I came home from my travels in September (the passing of my pastor and friend Ted Law, getting back into the routines of stationary life in Houston, and taking care of the small accumulated repair/ improvement projects on my RV), I never…
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Water in the Wilderness
Tonight’s blog entry is going to be a little bit different. I will tell you about my visit yesterday to White Sands National Park, the last national park on my schedule for this year, in just a little bit. But first I feel the need to write about what else is going on in my…
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Capitol Improvements
On Saturday, I made my first national park visit from my new base at Camp Lutherwood. Capitol Reef National Park is actually almost exactly halfway in between my old site at Dead Horse Point State Park and the new one (I passed it on the way), but timing-wise, it worked out better for me to…
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Rim to River
As promised, I’m following my plan of working during the week and doing national park visits on weekends. This last week was pretty intensely busy, and next week looks the same, but I took time out yesterday to visit what is probably one of the lesser-known national parks, Black Canyon of the Gunnison. My first…
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