The fountains outside Caesars Palace last summer in Last Vegas, Nevada.

I understand that Artemis II just safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a trip around the moon! Here's a photo of me at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas from last November. Mission Control was just around the corner from here!

Having a little fun on my visit to Paris, France in 2019. This is on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower, 187 feet above the ground where there is a lovely terrace to relax!

Doing some hiking outside Phoenix, Arizona in 2024. Can you tell that I like the desert?

All the Artemis II stuff this week made me think back to the moon landing in 1969 and the Command module Columbia that I saw last year at the Air and Space Museum in D.C. This is the spacecraft that served as the command module during Apollo 11, which was the first moon landing.

I got to enjoy a getaway to Toronto, Canada last weekend and had the pleasure of visiting the Ripley's Aquarium of Canada. This place has more than 20,000 exotic sea and freshwater specimens from more than 450 species. The coolest part is the moving walkway under the water. That doesn't seem safe!

What's going on down in Miami? This is the middle of the game and no one is there! This is LoanDepot Park in Miami, FL and is home to the Marlins. Thank you for following along this year as I shared photos of 11 different ballparks that I have visited over the years. Play ball!

If you've been following along, I hope you've enjoyed my tour of some baseball parks. I just have a couple left! Tonight, is Comerica Park in Detroit, MI home of the Tigers! I'm partial to this one as it's my team. Go Tigers!

Last summer I visited Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. This stadium is a classic! It has been home to the Kansas City Royals since 1973.

Enjoying the upper week view at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio. It's been home to the Red's since 2003. If you missed it - I've been sharing baseball stadiums all week. Click through my profile if you've missed any. I've got a few more to share this weekend!

The red seat at Fenway Park in Boston, located at Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21 in the right-field bleachers, marks the spot where Ted Williams hit a historic 502-foot home run on June 9, 1946. It is the only red seat in a sea of green. I got to see it in 2012.

To celebrate the new baseball season I'm sharing one baseball stadium photo until I run out! If you missed any earlier post, click through my profile and be sure to like and share! Today is outside Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona from 2024. Call me old school but stadiums used to have good names.

All week I am sharing photos of various baseball parks I have visited over the years. This one is the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada. Home to the Toronto Blue Jays since 1989 under its previous name, SkyDome. I was here in 2011.

Baseball is back and I'm sharing photos from all the ballparks I have visited over the year. This is from last year in Baltimore, Maryland. Just outside the park is this statue of legendary ballplayer Babe Ruth. The Babe was born right here in Baltimore on February 6, 1895.

I'm taking a tour of the ballparks I have visited to celebrate the new season. This is from my 2024 visit to Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri.

I'm celebrating the return of baseball with a tour of all the ballparks I have visited. This one, Wrigley Field, in Chicago, Illinois has the most famous and recognizable marquees of any professional sports stadium, I would wager. It's also the second oldest park (after Boston) opening in 1914.

It's officially the start of the baseball season! As I do every year, I'll share photos for the next week or so of the ballparks I have visited. Today we will start in Houston, TX from my 2022 visit to Daikin Park. Originally called Enron Field, then Minute Maid Park. The name keeps getting dumber!

Yesterday I shared my visit from an area called Hell on Grand Cayman Island. Today, another Hell I visited, back in 2002. This is a legitimate town: Hell, Michigan. About 15 miles northwest of Ann Arbor, Hell is a small unincorporated community that has capitalized on their unusual name.

This is a place called Hell in the Grand Cayman Islands. Its name comes from a group of short, black, limestone formations located in the area. Its eerie and rather sinister look is what gave it its infamous name. It is roughly the size of half a football field. I was here in 2003.

I visited Jamestown, Virginia last year. This is the actual site of the original settlement and in 1607 became the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

I spent some time last week in Columbia, South Carolina. This is on the riverwalk along the Saluda River, one of three rivers that converge near downtown.

I'm sitting on a cannonball inside Fort McHenry in Baltimore, MD during my visit in 2025. This is the fort whose War of 1812 victory inspired The Star-Spangled Banner! I didn't see any bombs bursting in air, and I am grateful for that.

In 2017 I visited Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada. It was great fun and I hope to go back someday.

It was an honor to sit inside the Rosa Parks Bus on my visit to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan a few years ago. This bus is where Rosa Parks refused to move seats in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, an important event in the civil rights movement.

This was my first ever cruise in 2003. Hanging out in the Port of Miami, Florida.

This is inside the Belle Isle Aquarium. It is the oldest public aquarium in the continental U.S., known for its historic Albert Kahn-designed building with a green glass-tiled, vaulted ceiling that creates an underwater feel. Belle Isle is located between Michigan and Ontario in the Detroit River.

The Chicago Theatre is a legendary venue in the heart of the Windy City (AKA Chicago). The theatre opened in 1921 and the distinctive marquee appears frequently in film, television, artwork, and photography. I visited in 2024.

This is the Sawmill Market in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This former industrial building has been converted into a hip space with lots of cool local eateries. I was here in 2021. Can you spot me in the photo?

Dominica is a mountainous Caribbean island nation with natural hot springs and tropical rainforests. Not to be confused with the Dominican Republic. The island is the home of many rare plants, animals, and bird species. This photo is from my 2005 visit.

Yesterday I shared a picture in front of a replica liberty bell in Denver, Colorado and here's another one I have visited. This one is on the capitol grounds in Jefferson City, Missouri where I was visiting in 2025. I hope to find a few more of these in the future. Or perhaps the real one!

Here is a replica of the Liberty Bell in the mile high city (that's Denver, Colorado in case you didn't know). I was here just last month. It seems lots of state capitol grounds have replicas. At the very least, the number is more than one.

This is the Valley of Fire in Nevada. I think the red rocks compliment by brown tones very nicely! I was here in 2011.

I'm going back in the archives for this one! From 2002, to be exact. This is along the river in Pittsburgh, PA. Which river? Well...there's three and this was many years ago so I don't actually remember. I do hope to return this fall and get some fresh photos. I promise my camera is better now!

In 2021 I visited the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. It's a lot of wide open spaces and some truly incredible petrified rocks. Also, rusty car parts!

The Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas is approximately 85 years old, with major construction completed in 1941. It's a city park and pedestrian street, one level down from the automobile street. The River Walk winds and loops under bridges as two parallel sidewalks lined with restaurants and shops.

On the pier at Folly Beach outside Charleston, South Carolina in early 2020. Please be sure to LIKE and REPOST my posts as much as possible so others can find me too! Your comments and likes are what keep me going. Lots more new adventures coming up this year!

On board the Cutty Sark in London, England in 2023. (Greenwich, actually.) This historic tea clipper, built in 1869, was fastest ship of its time. She is one of only three remaining intact composite construction (wooden hull on an iron frame) ships from the nineteenth century and is now a museum.

A cool, local mural I found on 6th St. in Austin, Texas last November. I know there was a shooting near here recently, and my thoughts go out to the people of Austin.

Outside of Roswell, New Mexico in 2024. This place is pretty cheesy, in how much it plays up the alien thing. But it's pretty fun too! Worth a visit it you're in the neighborhood.

I would give my left udder to have a decent president again. Here in San Juan, Puerto Rico where I visited in 2024, they have statues of every U.S. President that has visited the island. Except for one. I imagine throwing rolls of paper towels wasn't the way to win their hearts.

Just some weird art I found in downtown Hamburg, Germany during my visit in 2019. At least I think it's art. You never know with the Germans.

I visited Portland, Maine in 2017 and I am excited that I will be returning to the state for the first time since then in a couple months! I'm going along on a road trip through New England and will be visiting a number of states for the first time. Keep your eye out for that around Memorial Day!

This is the state capitol building in Springfield, IL from my visit in 2024. Good thing no one ran me over!

This one is from the archives! All the way back to 1999 - the first year I got out and about. I was still shy and didn't leave the comfort of the car when we visited Cincinnati, Ohio. It didn't take me long to come out of my shell.

I was in Mexico 3 months ago. I think where I was in Costa Maya was pretty safe, but thinking of everyone there right now with all the violence that has been going on.

Dreaming of sunshine and warm beaches. This is the famous Point Betsie lighthouse on the shore of Lake Michigan in northwest Michigan. I was here in 2023.

I spent a very rainy afternoon in Omaha, Nebraska last fall. It seems like a lovely place but walking around in the rain did put a damper on things.

Yes I was brutally attacked by a dinosaur in 2023. I barely survived! This was on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and if someone had warned me how dangerous it was there, I never would have gone!

This is The Fist, in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It's a monument to legendary boxer Joe Louis. It was dedicated in 1986. Louis is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential boxers of all time. I visited in 2023.

February 17 marked the beginning of the year of the horse. Representing independence, passion, & high energy, horses are natural leaders who are energetic and brave, but may struggle with impulsiveness or overextending themselves. I found this sign last week in Boulder, Colorado. Have a great year!