It occurred to me on New Years Day that I ought to a decade challenge of sorts with my travels, only I decided to do so as a by the numbers version. So … almost two weeks later, I’ve finally pulled a post together! Some of the images below have my photography business logo instead of my RB logo on them.
Between January 2010 and November 2019 I (either solo or while traveling with others, including Dave) …
Cadillac Ranch – Amarillo, Texas (2010)
Total states visited: 24
Rancho de Taos, New Mexico (2012)
New states visited: 13
Mission Espada – San Antonio, Texas (2011)
National Park Service sites and Federal Lands (excluding National Forests) visited: 56
Vicksburg National Military Park (2018)
NPS sites that I visited more than once: 11 (over the last decade) plus three more that I visited for the first time pre-2010
Painted Desert section of Petrified Forest National Park (2015)
Highlights by year:
Rocky Mountain National Park (2010)
2010: Slip sliding up a snow and ice-covered trail (in trail runners instead of snowshoes) at Rocky Mountain National Park (a different area than pictured above!)
U Drop Inn on Route 66- Shamrock, Texas (2011)
2011: Traveling on two different solo adventures; one of which I ended up with food poisoning (that was not a fun drive home) and the other where I had a couple of mishaps that I can finally laugh about.
Orpheum — Memphis, Tennessee (2012)
2012: Visiting the Angel Fire Vietnam Veterans State Park (in New Mexico) and seeing a sunset at the Rio Grande Gorge near Taos. Also daytripping (from the best friend’s home in Little Rock) to Memphis.
Delicate Arch – Arches National Park (2013)
2013: Checked off quite a few national parks in the Colorado Plateau region — including hiking to Delicate Arch!
Hot Springs National Park (2014)
2014: The year of Natural State (aka Arkansas) travels. Explore quite a bit of the Little Rock area with the best friend while shooting her engagement and bridal portraits and then solo exploring Hot Springs that fall.
Yosemite National Park (2015)
2015: The year of the epic roadtrip that we took from East Texas west on I-40 to the Mohave area of California before heading all the way north through California and almost to central Oregon before we headed back towards Texas by way of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.
Balmorhea State Park (2016)
2016: Mid fall took the brother and me out to New Mexico and West Texas. We got to see quite a bit of the beauty of the ABQ area in addition to southeastern New Mexico. A bonus was seeing the beginning of fall foliage in Guadalupe Mountains National Park’s McKittrick Canyon.
Caddo Mounds State Historic Site (2017)
2017: So many travels — mostly weekend adventures! I’m so glad we took an impromptu day trip to Caddo Mounds as the site endured so much damage last spring when a tornado passed through that destroyed this house and the visitor center in addition to taking lives.
Vista House – Columbia River Gorge (and our campervan!) (2018)
2018: Campervanning around the PNW for two weeks. Visiting the northeast for Veterans Day weekend.
Congaree National Park (2019)
2019: The year of fun food travels. Many of our stops were for food — and why we visited Nashville twice in less than five months!
What did the last decade of your travels look like? Share in the comments below …
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