GIANT grasshoppers migrating from swamp to ocean (I guess)

• New Orleans with Mom for her BD (no pix)
• Habitat HQ for Bayou Area (no pix)
• Gator Pond walk (pix here)

NATIONAL NEWS: National Guard called in while I'm there after 6 murders overnight

Convertibles are fun! (Lallow is protected from desert sun under a "pup tent")

• San Antonio River Walk
• 1.5 mile cave tour

NATIONAL NEWS: Houston floods as I drive through

NATIONAL NEWS: Wildfires in Sedona threatening my passage into the Grand Canyon!

Wow! Hikes, Helicopters, Waterfalls...

NATIONAL NEWS: Fast moving wildfire shuts down North Rim just before I was planning to hike it. From the South Rim we are seeing much smoke & haze filling the entire Grand Canyon...

visit Sis now that feet & paws are too raw for hiking

LOCAL NEWS: Highway into California shut down all day after deadly accident - forced to drive poor little Dodge Shadow through DEATH VALLEY to go around it...

UT - ID - MT - WY

broken down car ruined trip - lost the entire day of hiking & sights planned - an excuse to go back!

a scenic route home to Orlando

NATIONAL NEWS: Heat wave is nationwide & record breaking - just what my poor little 1993 Dodge Shadow needs as I drive out of the deserts & mountains into the humid South, & my odometer ticks past 200,000...