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A Hillside Hike and Exploring Lehman Caves In Great Basin NP

After having driven through Great Basin National Park the day before, we needed to find some other options for our second day in the park. Fortunately there are plenty of things to do, especially hiking. Unexpectedly, we were also able to do another activity which was to explore Lehman Caves. Great Basin National Park has quite a few options when it comes to hiking. Fortunately these options also include various ability levels. While at one point in our lives we…

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An Unexpected Hike in Great Basin National Park

Tuesday was a travel day for us. Having spent a day in Capitol Reef National Park, it was time to move on. Our next and final stop was Great Basin National Park in Nevada. The drive there was over three hours long. I figured we would be tired when we arrived in Nevada so I didn’t plan any activity for the day. The drive indeed was long. There were no real places of interest requiring a stop so we drove…

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Capitol Reef National Park’s Unique Mix of History and Adventure

Monday’s weather was cooler than Sunday’s. There was also a prediction for a thunderstorm in the afternoon. With that in mind we dressed for the anticipated weather and headed off for Capitol Reef National Park. I read online that the park was undergoing some construction projects and parts of the park were closed. I wasn’t sure how that would impact our day. This park does not have a pay booth as one enters because part of the park is just…

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Hiking to the Inside of Bryce Canyon National Park

Having spent an afternoon in Bryce Canyon National Park, we were ready to see what more the park had to offer. The weather was about the same as the day before so we were looking forward to a good day. First, however, we needed to get some breakfast as our motel did not provide any. We stopped at a cafe in the town of Panguitch. We were able to get a table, but the place was pretty busy. Our waitress…

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Vegas to Kanab, Utah Via Valley of Fire

In 2016 we spent a week in Utah checking out three of Utah’s big five national parks. We intended to go back and see the other two, but just hadn’t made it. It was time to go back and check out the two we missed: Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef. We planned to make a trip of it by including the north rim of the Grand Canyon and Nevada’s only national park, Great Basin. There were some other spots including…

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Singapore’s Marina Bay Offers the Luxury Side of Life

Saturday morning we woke up to another rainy day. However, in the morning it wasn’t too heavy. After breakfast we decided to head back to the Marina Bay area and the Marina Bay Sands Hotel. The options for a rainy day were either museums or shopping. Neither had much appeal so we just decided to go back to the hotel and see how the wealthy lived and vacationed. It wasn’t actually raining when we walked to the transit station. When…

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Singapore’s Flower Dome Provides a Unique Experience

Since we arrived in Singapore, the last stop of our visit to Southeast Asia, it hadn’t stopped raining. Nevertheless, we headed down to the famous Gardens by the Bay, and earlier in the day we kept dry inside the Cloud Forest, a dome covered tropical garden. We would spend our afternoon time inside the neighboring Flower Dome. First, however, we needed to get something to eat. When we came out of the Cloud Forest, right in front of us was…

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A Rainy Day Under the Dome of the Cloud Forest

So far on our journey through Southeast Asia, we had been pretty lucky with the weather. That’s not to say that the weather had been perfect. It hadn’t. However, we had expected to see more rain. Fortunately the rain we experienced happened mostly in the evening or overnight so we were able to see what we wanted to see in the daytime. Then we arrived in Singapore, and our luck changed. It rained. All day. Thankfully we were able to…

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The Malaysia Countryside Seen Through a Bus Window

Having spent three days in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, it was time to travel on to Singapore, the final destination of our Southeast Asia trip. Singapore is an island off the southern tip of Malaysia. Flying into Singapore was certainly feasible, but getting to the airport and going through all the security and immigration seemed like a lot of hassle. We decided to take a bus. We looked into a train, but no trains travel that route directly. There were several…

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Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Towers and Its Unique Skyline View

Kuala Lumpur is not on a lot of American’s radar. Likely many people would have trouble identifying the country it represents. Despite its relative obscurity, the city has managed to have a skyline that puts it in the record books. Currently the second tallest building in the world is in Kuala Lumpur. That building, the Merdeka 118, has been recently constructed and is still not yet ready to receive visitors. However, another building, the Petronas Towers, does receive visitors. This…

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