Linda turned 60 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Lookout Mountain at Rock City Gardens. The high elevation gave her a view of seven states and tested her hiking ability as a new member of the 60s club.
Read MoreColorado gives tourists the choice to climb the Rocky Mountains or travel to options that don’t require much time or a drive up steep canyons. We explored a few easy-to-access locations on our trip there.
Read MoreNew Mexico offers a vacation destination that combines art created by nature and people. The scenery ranges from sand dunes to ancient petroglyphs.
Read MoreSaturday night on the Riverwalk in San Antonio proved what we had heard about people like us being eager to get out of the house. We ran into crowded sidewalks and restaurants, but it was a fun place to visit.
Read MoreFor visitors to Mississippi coming from the New Orleans or Baton Rouge areas, the state offers two excellent travel destinations: Lake Lincoln State Park and Percy Quin State Park. Both sit within a 60-minute drive from the Mississippi/Louisiana border on Interstate 55.
Read MoreHot Springs National Park in Arkansas is an unusual national park. Like Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming it has a strong connection to hot water, but you experience the heat at Hot Springs by turning on a tap instead of watching it shoot skyward out of large holes in the ground. It’s also located in a busy city, not the wilderness.
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