South Carolina photos from my visit last September to Huntington Beach State Park (photo above), Charleston and Cypress Gardens. More travel photos – travel photo posts.
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Appalachian Trail Photos
I just posted some photos from a couple short hikes on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania during September 2003.
More Curious Cat Travels hiking photos: Grand Canyon National Park – Olympic National Park – Bull Run, Virginia – Yellowstone National Park – many more
Directory of travel photos by geographic locations
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky
Photos from my visit to the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. The design of the spaces (living and working) and tools was beautiful and, in fact, very much reminiscent of lean thinking ideas like 5s.
On this trip, I also visited the Abbey of Gethsemani (where Thomas Merton was a monk) and Louisville.
Mount Rainier National Park Photos
I have posted, the final destination of my trip last summer to the Pacific Northwest National Parks: Mount Rainier National Park.
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National Parks
John Hunter, Hurricane Ridge Trail, Olympic National Park
I just returned from several weeks visiting National Parks in the Northwest USA: Olympic, Mount Saint Helens, North Cascades, Glacier and Mount Rainer. I will post photos of the parks to the Curious Cat Travels section as I have time.
A CNN.com article, from yesterday, discusses the use of National parks and comments on camping declining at the parks. I have always preferred to hike around during the day and then eat good food, sleep in a warm bed and take a warm shower. So maybe I am ahead of the trend the article argues is taking place. I found the most interesting part of the article to be:
There were 276.9 million visits to the National Park System last year… By comparison, combined attendance at Major League Baseball, National Football League and National Basketball Association games last season was about 110 million.
One of the surprising things about my recent trip was the lack of foreigners. Often, of past visits (Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountains, etc.) close to half the people I see hiking seem to be foreigners . This time I would estimate less than 10%. My guess is this is just an anomaly of the time and places I visited but it was interesting.
New (added 2015): Curious Cat travel photos – National Parks