The Outdoors

Palm Springs is known to a lot of people for their beautiful golf resorts and for Coachella, the yearly music festival. However, we went to Palm Springs with a different plan: exploring Joshua Tree and the Wild West. Joshua Tree National Park, just an hour from Palm Springs, is...

Unpredictable, wild and exciting During our visit to the Big Island of Hawaii in 2018, we booked a trip with Aloha Lava Tours to hike on the Kilauea volcano.Timing can be everything because nature can be unpredictable. Four months after our adventure, the 2018 lower Puna eruption on Kilauea volcano's...

This summer we finally managed to get reservations at Sequoia High Sierra Camp. Glamping in Sequoia National Park had been high on my list for several years. But the camp books up very quickly as the season is short and the demand...

An exhilarating day of hiking a canyon, rock pool jumps and a waterfall abseil. Life is short, take a jump Because Sydney has so much to offer when planning our trip, we created a list of things we wanted to do. That list included the traditional sights like the Opera...

Swimming with the dolphins has been on my bucket list for years. And when I say swim with dolphins I mean swimming with them in the wild, not in captivity in a pool. After  a couple of unsuccessful  tries in Maui and New Zealand,  I did more research and...

Zion is one of the famous National Parks in Utah. Only a 2 1/2 drive from Las Vegas, it is an easy destination for a weekend. We had talked about going on a girls camping trip, so we decided to go hiking and canyoneering Zion National Park. Moonlight...

One of my first bucket list projects several years ago was to buy a place in Hawai’i. Actually, at that time, it wasn’t even a bucket list yet, it was part of my New Years resolutions. Every year sometime around the first of January I would sit down and...