We Also Stopped At Luray Caverns On Our Trip. My Mom Had Been There With My Sister But I Hadnt. One Reason

We also stopped at luray caverns on our trip. my mom had been there with my sister but I hadn’t. One reason I wanted to go was for the great stalagpipe organ which as a musician and a person who has had to make an instrument for scratch before, seeing it was a bucket list item for me.

as a tuba and sousaphone player, this looks awful. like i understand why and stuff but they make musician masks that have a slit in them to fit a mouth piece or reed, and another type made for flutes, and then bell covers that basically work as masks for instruments. and also if the person is playing a sousaphone, really to only have reason to be playing them would be for marching band which why not had socially distanced practices outside like they would be for games, otherwise give the poor person a concert tuba and a chair if they don’t have one (though I think they already might).

Are you guys ready to see a picture from a local high school band practice during covid

last year i shared some pictures I took when my family went to rocky Mountain, grand Teton and yellowstone national parks, and I was thinking about the things I have done in the past year and realized in 2021 I visited 7 more national parks and even more places in the national park service, and I haven’t shared any picture yet so here is a bit of a warning. you’re about to see a lot of pictures of rocks.

I found this a lot funnier than I should have

It‘s called arches for a reason. these pictures include delicate arch from the view point. we didnt do the full hike up to delicate arch because it got hot very quickly, and it is a strenuous hike. We also hiked to landscape arch which is an easy hike but we did it around noon and that trail has no shade. we also did sand dune arch which was between two fins and was really cool. I also would love to come back to do more hikes to other arches like delicate and more located in devils garden (where landscape is located). We also did the Windows after watching the sunset.

the first national park of the year was Shenandoah in early April but we made a stop at Natural Bridge state park in Virginia. this is the first of four places I went to this year called natural bridge(s). I also made the mistake of forgetting to put on boots so I hiked in crocs and will not be making that mistake again. But it was still very pretty and I plan to go back and take my sister because she was at college at the time.