Sue Bray

It’s totally different from any other National Park we’ve visited – no snowy mountains, blue lakes, rushing rivers or the other types of scenery we generally associate with our National Parks. From the wild looking trees to the stacked rocks, Joshua Tree first appears as a rather forbidding world...

What can I say about the Grand Canyon? It’s awesome. It’s breathtaking. It’s inspiring. And it’s truly overwhelming. The Canyon just draws you in – every time you look into its mile-long depth, colors and shadows change, or you notice something you never saw before.

I had always wanted to visit South Dakota, and first on my bucket list was Mount Rushmore. I’m not alone. According to the National Park Service, Mount Rushmore National Monument is visited by nearly three million people each year.

“Laissez les bons temps rouler” or “Let the good times roll”. And that’s just what we did when we arrived in The Big Easy – New Orleans, Louisiana.