I decided to try something different here. I created a store on Smugmug.com to make some of the pictures available for sale to anyone interested. You can also get various items with the pictures printed on them. Click here to see more of an explanation and a link to the store. Now on with the site.
We're the Johnsons and we live in Reston, VA. We've combined some of our trips and a lot of pictures into a family travel web site. We've also tried to include information helpful in planning your trip. Its here to be enjoyed and is not commercial in any way. Links provided are for convenience and nothing we're paid to do. We hope you enjoy Travels with the Johnsons. If you enjoy the site, we'd love to hear from you in the guest book. We try to respond to all comments we receive.
We
like to travel, whether its long trips or short ones. In the past,
most of our trips were car rides to
go camping or kayaking. Lately we've venturing on longer
trips. Trips to Hawaii
and
Belize
are pretty big adventures compared to how we normally travel. In July, 2006 we made our first trip
to a couple of large Western
National Parks. Yellowstone and
Glacier National Parks
were the highlights and
were everything we expected. You can read about them and see
pictures by clicking the appropriate links.
Maybe some of these pictures will help you find things you want to do or avoid.
We also created some tips for travel to these
places that might help you start planning. When we feel like a more local trip, we head towards Chincoteague to visit and
see the ponies on Assateague Island.
We spend time kayaking and camping when time
permits. We go to nearly all West Virginia University Mountaineer home football games.
When we can, we take long weekend trips to West
Virginia. Al takes too many pictures of it all and some of them are
posted here. You'll find pictures from Cass Scenic Railroad
and the
Greenbrier River Trail and
Dolly Sods.
Al's primary hobby is photography. Almost everything else he does provides
an opportunity to take pictures. Thank
goodness he got into digital photography and we don't have to pay for all that
film.
Sue is a nurse for Kaiser Permanente. She's tolerant of Al's hobby and sometimes takes her own pictures. If you ask her age, she's 35. Just like last year.
We occasionally get to a Jimmy Buffett concert. I think we've seen 12 shows since 1996. Its a good way to pretend you're young and on an island. The concert is good but there's a lot of fun to be had in the parking lot at the tailgate parties. Lately his schedule has conflicted with our Yellowstone trips and we haven't been able to make it.
Rascal
was our Miniature Schnauzer puppy. Rascal died on November 11,
2006. He was so involved in
our lives that almost anything we do causes us to miss him. My wife just
said picking up a plastic bag shouldn't make you cry.
He weighed 25 pounds so he is roughly 2
miniature schnauzers according to the AKC. We adopted him from the
Schnauzer Rescue
League. If you want to read our
tribute to him and see his pictures, click on the picture to the left.
We've adopted another schnauzer. Bugsy
is actually a miniature weighing in at 15 pounds. He's a lot different
than Rascal. He has better manners and less energy for one thing.
He's three years old. He proving to be a pretty wonderful pet in his own
right. We've learned that he was better trained when we got him than
Rascal ever would be. He isn't the lap dog Rascal was, either, but he's
never very far away. Click on the picture to the left if you want to see
more information.
The links will show you some of the pictures and help you learn of the places we've visited. We've tried to provide information that might he useful to you in planning your own trip. If you have any questions or comments, please leave a comment in the Guest Book. If you leave an email address, we'll get back to you if for no other reason than to say thanks.
5-7-2008
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