Entrance to the caves 150 feet below worlds of fun A fascinating day trip to kansas city involved a trip to the mile long tunnel where they store, among other things, stamps in the worlds largest underground storage facility.

One of the highlights of the trip was our day hike into Rabbit Ears Canyon, a razor thin crack in the mountain that had been carved out and rubbed perfectly smooth by thousands of years of flash floods.  During the rainy season these slot canyons can be death traps with…

The last night on the river was extremely cold, getting down to below freezing, and leaving us all shivering in our tents, watching the full moon set, so we could finally get up.  As the pictures below show, we were all pretty happy when the first cup of coffee was…

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I suspect this is not the first time Cindy and the Kennymen have featured a photo of Miles holding a giant cockroach, but here goes again. We met this little fellow at the Field Museum members night. The curators were holding cockroach races in the basement collection storage area. We…

Thanks to vacation photographer John Knox for these photos! Miles and I were partners in the duckie for the last day and a half on the river. You can see my paddling skills when faced with a category -1 rapid and Miles’s ability to completely relax, even when in constant…

We just got back from our much anticipated 5 day river trip on the Rio Grande. We had an amazing time, there’s so much to tell! We’re putting up just a few photos now and will add more, especially once our group photographer John Knox shares his! I discovered it’s…

It was history fair night at Newberry, and Liam and his group gathered to give their presentation to parents who were visiting. Their board looked really nice, it was called Michael Collins and the Cost of Compromise, and they did an excellent job with their presentations!

Normally River Forest Nature Preserve is the type of place that makes you think, ‘why are they preserving this?’  Illinois nature at its finest!  But this weekend when myself, Liam and his friend Peter were geocaching it was extremely cool, with a frozen sheet of ice over the entire forest…