Destination: USA

Photos: Washington, D.C.

Tue, 4 Apr 2023 | By kiwiaoraki | Photo Gallery

Photos: Long Island

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 | By kiwiaoraki | Photo Gallery

Photos: Lancaster

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 | By kiwiaoraki | Photo Gallery

Antelope Canyon Roadtrip

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [115]

WHAT’S ON YOUR TRAVEL “BUCKET LIST?” We have been everywhere from Antartica to Zimbabwe so ours is more of a “been there, done that” list,  filled with tick marks and a few scribbles of final additions in the margins.... Read more >

A Walk in the Park

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [117]

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK appeals to all of the senses. The bluest of skies, the smell of the pines on the cool breeze and birdsong mix together while Long’s Peak towers in the distance to over 14,000 feet. Throw in some good friends who just ... Read more >

Hawaiian Island Sampler

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [148]

Aloha! As a child I always wished for my mother to take me to where she was born. Strung like a forming bracelet of islands deep in the Pacific blue, Hawaii sits over a volcanic hotspot in the Earth's surface. Flying to New Zealand with Hawaiian Airlines ... Read more >

Photos: Honolulu

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 | By kiwiaoraki | Photo Gallery

Photos: Maui

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 | By kiwiaoraki | Photo Gallery

Desert Nostalgia

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [177]

Phoenix is a huge city! Driving from Glendale to Chandler (northwest to southeast) takes the better part of two hours, so I can only imagine how long it would take to walk or ride my bike all over town, especially in triple-digit heat. Arizona called ... Read more >

Photos: Phoenix

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 | By kiwiaoraki | Photo Gallery

Right Back Where We Started From

Thu, 7 Jul 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [181]

HERE WE ARE, BACK IN COLORADO, We arrived jet-lagged, dehydrated and not accustomed to the altitude, then found out we both had Covid. Don’t know whether we picked it up on the flight home from Iceland—we were masked all the way for 10-hours—... Read more >

Photos: Colorado and Arizona

Sat, 2 Jul 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery

If At First You Don't Succeed . . .

Sat, 9 Apr 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [163]

SOME WOULD CALL IT INSANITY, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. But sometimes perseverance pays off. You may question the sanity of us birders—even we ourselves admit to a certain amount of quirkiness. After all, ... Read more >

Sabine Woods

Fri, 8 Apr 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [172]

SABINE WOODS IS AN IMPORTANT REST STOP on the Texas/Louisiana border for birds migrating to and from Central America, 27 acres of live oaks gnalred by hurricanes. Sabine is privately owned and managed by the Texas Ornithological Society but the trails ... Read more >

Brownsville: Birders and Borders

Sat, 2 Apr 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [185]

THE MORRIS-BROWN HOUSE IN BROWNSVILLE was built in 1909 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Morris-Brown Cottage—where we stayed—is not. Our host Steve, who owns both plus another six apartments in a separate building ... Read more >