Tag: United States

United Selfies of America

by Mary Tebje, posted in Heritage and History, Las Vegas, National Parks, Rural heritage, Rural Tourism, Sense of Place, Travel and Leisure, Travel and Tourism, United States

The United States national parks celebrate an impressive 100th anniversary year in 2016 and what a privilege it was to re-visit some of the national parks over the summer. Living on an island that would easily fit into some of the American national parks, I had forgotten about the space, big skies, sheer spectacle, that if you don’t have a … Continue reading United Selfies of America

The Las Vegas Boneyard

by Mary Tebje, posted in Travel and Leisure

Rebecca warned us we would become neon sign aficionados. She was right! A Boneyard, an evocative term not used much these days: it would have once referred to "a seventeenth-century boneyard, a graveyard, the oldest in the city...." for example, and quite out of place in a city as brash and bold as Las Vegas. A … Continue reading The Las Vegas Boneyard