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Featured Photo: Arch View in Bryce Canyon

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Heather Dugan
Posted in Bryce Canyon National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Family with Kids, PHOTOS Tagged , , , , ,

Featured Photo:  “Bryce Arch” -Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA.

One of the best parts of taking my kids on travel adventures is watching them discover.  I’m a self-proclaimed travel junkie, already thrilled to be on a new trail or in some other new-to-me place.  But watching their wonderment enhances my own to an utterly splendid level.  This photo was a snap decision, but it caught my oldest son taking in a freshly unfolding view in Bryce Canyon National Park as well as my youngest son’s excitement to see what his older brother had just found.

From July 2008.
More on Bryce Canyon National Park and Utah hikes:
Hoodoo Heaven
Wash, Dry, Fly, Repeat
Dogs and Cars, but NOT Cows
Bridge Over the Reef
Adventures in Utah

Bryce Things To Do

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When it Really is a Jungle…

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Heather Dugan
Posted in El Yunque National Forest, El Yunque National Forest, Family with Kids, Hiking Tagged , , , , ,

“It’s a jungle out there” has grown cliched to the point that the phrase almost always brings to mind a complex urban landscape. But sometimes…

It really is a jungle.

Our views from Yokahu Tower extended more than ten miles, out to Luquillo, Fajardo and San Juan and into the North Atlantic waters that border Puerto Rico’s northern shores.

 

To the west, Los Picachos and Pico de El Yunque rose from amongst the 240 known plant species native to El Yunque National Forest. Far to the east, beyond our sight but visible from El Yunque Peak on the clearest of days: the Virgin Islands.

 

As we breathed it all in I remembered swimming, years before, in the seas of St John and Virgin Gorda, only vaguely aware that Puerto Rico was just over there… to the west. Now I stood on Puerto Rico’s main island knowing that I’d once chased eagle rays through waters just over there… to the east. As my brain slowly arranged it all in geographical order, it struck me that whether surveying jungle, ocean or mountain, a little on-the-spot perspective is more effective than any map in connecting them all across one beautiful and ever intriguing planet.

 

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Perils of Paradise

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Heather Dugan
Posted in Family with Kids, Rio Grande Tagged , , , , , ,

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Window decals are marginally effective in preventing birds from attempting a fly-through.  I liked the humor in the “Beware Paradise” sticker adhered to the sliding balcony door in our room at the Gran Melia in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.   I don’t know how many birds it has saved, but hopefully the warning has prevented vacationers from succumbing to the hazards of Paradise.

Hazards?  Well, at a resort like the Gran Melia in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, these hazards might easily include an uneven sunscreen application and brain freeze from slurping your frozen daiquiri too quickly. But, I’d rather consider more natural perils awaiting the unwary traveler:


Like bumping into a palm tree,

 

 

 

 

while stumbling over one of these beached coconuts.

 

 

 

 

Or the paradisaical peril of wasting your time by following a hermit crab wherever it wishes to go

while watching egrets fly to parts unknown…

While losing yourself completely -for a few moments at least, on a wander down a deserted beach…

 

Updated from September 13, 2010.
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