by Karen Cummings | Oct 22, 2025
“Trump Administration Announces Atrocious Plan to Destroy America’s Largest Park Landscape” If you have ever visited or recreated in a National Park or National Forest, the recent headlines showcasing the Trump administration’s plans for them are...
by Karen Cummings | Jun 30, 2025
According to the National Park Service website, Roosevelt was known as the “conservationist president.” Keep public lands in public hands! “We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to...
by Karen Cummings | Oct 2, 2024
Discover the world in the state where you spent most of your life. It can surprise you. I live in Maine, so I have always traveled somewhere else to see wonderful sights, museums, spectacular architecture, and history. My state has a lot to offer, but I never seemed...
by Karen Cummings | May 29, 2021
Traveling is like riding a bike — that’s what I thought Taking long and short trips was something that I did consistently right up until the recognized start of the pandemic in March of 2020. I keep muttering to myself, “I know how to travel. Why am I so...
by Karen Cummings | Dec 19, 2020
Decorating the tree at home is a remembrance of travel — even when it is a Merry Christmas ornament from Alcatraz At the Cummings household, hanging each Christmas ornament on the tree is an exercise in remembering travel. We get to daydream, with snow on the ground...
