Travel

Detailed travel logs and trip journals live here. Expect day‑by‑day itineraries (e.g., our Switzerland & Italy trip) with weather notes, meals and family anecdotes, plus posts on museum visits, road‑trips and cruises.

Today I learned that these cactus are incredibly sharp. The needles will go right through light hiking shoes. Ouch. They are very pretty though, particularly when the sun lights them up. ☀️🌵🥾

Teddy bear cholla cacti with pale yellow spines cover a rocky Sonoran Desert hillside, with mountains and hazy valley in the background. Cholla cactus covered in dense pale spines glowing in sunlight, with desert landscape and blue sky in the background.