Category: Travel Tales

Exploring Phoenix Mountains Preserve

I mentioned last week that the resort we stayed at backed up to the Phoenix Mountains Preserve. This preserve is free to visit and is open from 5am to 7pm. There are some low peaks hikers can hike up. As we were just there to get in a couple of miles for general exercise and

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A Rainy Getaway

I’m a bit behind on my posts. This was a Getaway trip from this spring. We wanted a relaxing weekend and a rainy one was perfect. We expected some rain but a thunderstorm with those big windows in the cabin was a bit wild. Bear was not a fan of the thunder and it made

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Caprock Canyons State Park

This was kinda of a wild camping trip. We kept being chased away by chill bison. They were there and weren’t going to be moving anytime soon so we went elsewhere. There was a bison in the middle of the hiking trail and when we got back to camp a big bison was just laying

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Book Review: Berlin A Short History

Title: Berlin A Short HistoryAuthor: Bernd StöverTranslator: Donna StonecipherPublication Date: 2013Publishing House: C.H. Beck I picked this book up in Berlin as my regional literature book. I found this book in the gift shop of the Neues Museum. Finding books in English wasn’t as difficult in Berlin as it was in Valencia but I still

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Food in Berlin

Our first night in Berlin we were starving after a day of travel. We had come from the warm Mediterranean to a cold and windy city. A quick Google search told us there was a Vietnamese restaurant around the corner from our hotel. The food was so good. On our walking tour the next day

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