Is anyone still taking helicopter flights to view the Grand Canyon? There was a time when crashes made the headlines and deterred tourists from considering a flight. I hope the businesses who offer helicopter flights have made flights safer and they are providing many flights to those of us wishing to see the Grand Canyon from the sky.
I looked online and there seem to be so many businesses offering this thrilling way to glimpse one of the greatest wonders of the world. Some companies are based near Boulder City, while others offer flights originating in Las Vegas. (You will save up to two hours travel time since you will not be flying out of Boulder City.) Aerial views along the way include Hoover Dam, Lake Mead and Valley of Fire.
Dedicated in 1935, Valley of Fire is Nevada’s oldest State Park. It is located only 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas. The rough floor and jagged walls of the park contain brilliant formations of eroded sandstone and sand dunes more than 150 million years old. These features, which are the centerpiece of the park’s attractions, often appear to be on fire when reflecting the sun’s rays.
As you near the canyon you will fly over the Black Mountains which are volcanic in origin and lava flows can be seen. Flights pass the over the Grape Vine Mesa then cross the Grand Wash Cliffs and enter the Grand Canyon.
As a traveler, you are always in anticipation of the next beautiful view, the best meal and the memories that travel will bring. You should think about the bumps in the road when traveling. There are things to consider when traveling. Take steps to make sure you can get help if needed. We never know when we might get sick or, heaven forbid someone dies, while traveling. There are cases when we need to know what to do in the even of death or illness while traveling.
Death or Injury of an American citizen abroad
Arrest/detention of an American citizen abroad
Victims of a crime abroad
American citizens missing abroad
Abduction of a child abroad
It makes me sad to think about but camping season is finished here in the mid-west. It is finished, unless you are a die hard camper who doesn’t mind camping in the snow. There are people who love to camp in the winter time. Not me. I found the perfect tent system at Kmart but, unfortunately, it doesn’t come with a heater.
Seriously, I am putting my new found tent in layaway and giving it to hubby for Christmas. I am so glad that Kmart is offering layaway again. It is too hard to hide things around my house and Kmart will keep it for me for 8 weeks. While looking for a temporary type bed to have for our Christmas time company, I found the perfect “anywhere bed”. It looks so comfy that it might become a permanent fixture in my guest room. It is easy to set up with its air pump that expands the bed automatically in seconds. It folds down into a compact little box when stored. The bed is advertised as an anywhere bed that is perfect for those of us who like to camp but don’t want to lie on the ground. That would be me. Anyway, while looking around, I found the tent. In fact, I saw that Kmart carries all sorts of camping equipment. They have coolers and sleeping bags too. Using Kmart Layaway means I only have to put down a deposit and make payments for a few weeks. I can have a place to store my gift and make it easier to afford a great tent.
Did you know that the Mr. Bluelight character, made famous by Kmart, is back? I remember being a kid and hearing the announcement about the blue light special happening in a particular aisle. It seemed that everyone rushed to see what was offered. We all knew to look for that flashing blue light because it meant big time savings. Mr. Bluelight is back and making it easier than ever to shop.
You will love what else I found: • Celebrations by Radko, a unique assortment of boxed glass ornaments exclusively for Kmart. The new collection by Christopher Radko®, the original manufacturer of handmade glass ornaments and holiday collectibles.
• Jaclyn Smith 100-percent cashmere sweaters
• Range of home electronic systems from Samsung, Sony and Panasonic – all at affordable prices
• Wide variety of the popular Joe Boxer apparel for the family, including fleece, loungewear and sleepwear.
Kmart is the place to shop for savings on Christmas gifts and for camping items!
I was dropping entre cards when I visited one of my favorite blogs. News from Nola reminds me of the fun experiences we had in New Orleans and in other parts of Louisiana. Our daughter was stationed in Grand Isle Louisiana. When we visited Stacy, we took the time to check out the beautiful southern states. You can read about a portion of our visit when you read my guest post over at News from Nola. Sara has my post up and I found it this morning. I looked at the picture in the post and thought, wow that couple looks just like us! LOL I hope you will check it out!
One of my most favorite times of the year is fall. When you live in the midwest, you get to experience all four seasons. The only bad thing about fall is that it leads to winter, which I detest. Thinking of fall though, is a pleasant experience. We have several places in southern Indiana where the cars line up bumper to bumper so their occupants can experience the exhilaration of color. The winding roads of southern Indiana bring us to the tops of vistas with breathtaking views. One must be careful and watch for deer because the hunters are out and the deer become startled. It is common to see deer running with their breath coming out their nostrils like a fog. Hikers with their Lowe alpine rucksacks often come across the signs of deer as they travel along the many trails around Brown County and Turkey Run.
Horseback riding is another way to see the beautiful color that fall offers. Opportunities to ride on horseback are often favored by tourists wishing to see back country not trampled and filled with signs of the public. Bird watching is another favored activity this time of year. Those who enjoy sketching and photographing birds appreciate the opportunity for a glimpse of a rare bird.
Fall in Indiana brings cooler temperatures that invite us all to get out and stretch our legs. The humidity in the summer makes us hide indoors where we constantly run our air conditioners. There are hills to be hiked, trails to be walked along, horses to be ridden into woods filled with color and scent.
I decided that I had a mission and that was to visit a quilt shop. The Rossville quilt shop’s owner had been to our guild meeting and was such a fun speaker that I had to check out her shop. It was a gorgeous day for a road trip. Mom and I stopped by the orchard on the way home and I bought some apples to make apple crisp.
I will be so glad when the voting is finished. We live next door to a voting location and you would not believe how many people have turned down our driveway by mistake. My poor dogs are wondering who all these people are and why are they driving these noisy cars. Many of these people are in dire need of a good auto parts store like Great Auto Parts.com. They have everything you could ever need to fix up your car and make it purr. Maybe a quiet car would be less intrusive on my poor puppy’s ears. Great Auto Parts.com has an easy to use catalog that makes it simple to get the supplies needed to make a car run better. Come on people, with Great Auto Parts.com offering low priced auto parts that come with a full warranty, there is no reason to drive a car that sounds like it is on death’s door.
My friend Drew takes the most wonderful pictures. He loves being able to display them on his Edge Tech Corp digital photo frame. Drew wants one of us to have fun with a digital photo frame too and is having a contest to give one to a lucky winner. Actually, Drew is giving away 3 great prizes.
It is simple to enter. Watch the video and go to Drew’s blog, The Benspark, to enter in the various ways stated on his post and as described in the video. Good luck.
I was afraid I was going to miss Grey’s Anatomy all together last night. I got caught up in a movie hubby rented called, Leatherheads.
It was a pretty good movie. You have to watch it just to laugh at the helmets that football players wore back in those days. I would venture to guess that they are collectors items. I never see one in an antique shop.
George Clooney was his boring self in the movie. If not for his good looks, I doubt he would get any work. Renee Zellweger is always interesting to watch. Her facial expressions are so amazing. I wonder how old she is now and what happened between her and Kenney Chesney. Oh my, I am so nosy this morning.
Happy Halloween everyone. I hope you receive lots of chocolate in your bag this year.
Ooops, I forgot to say…I caught the last half hour of Grey’s. It was pretty good again. They can leave that sexual stuff out (between the two women) as far as I am concerned. That should be kept private and doesn’t need detailed in a tv program. Sheesh. Bailey was wonderful as usual.
While traveling, I have wondered if my ancestors traveled and visited the places I have visited. Did they marvel at the same waterfall I had the pleasure of seeing? I will never know. I want to keep a record of my travels so that my ancestors will be able to enjoy my wandering as much as I have.
There is an exceptional software program available that allows us to record our thoughts in an exciting and convenient way. I learned of Dragon Naturally Speaking from my friend Heather who blogs at Boating In Beautiful British Columbia . She wanted to find a way to record her father’s life stories so she would have them as a permanent diary to share with future generations. Watch the video to see how she and her father have benefited from this wonderful software. After a few adjustments to get her father situated, she was able to type at $150 Words Per Minute for $99!.
My friend Brett knows more about this wonderful software than I could possibly share so let me, let him tell you how much this software can record the history of generations and preserve great stories for those generations to come.
From Brett:
The above video is not the typical Dragon NaturallySpeaking video. It was created by a blogger named Heather from British Columbia. She writes a blog called Boating in Beautiful British Columbia.
In the video that she has created, she talks about Dragon NaturallySpeaking. She talks about using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. In fact in the video, she is using Dragon NaturallySpeaking while she’s talking about it but you don’t quite realize that until the video is about halfway done.
The thing that’s REALLY interesting about this video, is not the fact that Heather is using the software and it’s not the fact the software works for her so much as HOW she chooses to use it. She took Dragon NaturallySpeaking and sat down with her father who is 95 years old. She spent a few minutes with him getting the software tuned to his voice so that the computer recognizes his sentences and words. Then she’s lets her father tell some of his great stories to the computer which transcribes everything that he says.
You can tell just by watching the video and listening to her father that he really does have some interesting stories to tell. I have a feeling that I could probably listen to the stories myself quite a bit, enjoying them immensely. And that too is not really the cool thing about this video. Although I’d love to hear her father tells more stories, the COOL THING is that she’s using Dragon NaturallySpeaking to capture a piece of her family’s oral tradition.
I can think of hundreds of different stories that my family has shared with me over the years that have not been documented. Our family is slowly losing some of those great stories and unfortunately, as we are losing some of our family members. We survivors don’t know all of the stories ourselves that our parents or grandparents or our great grandparents knew. But this video shows that you can use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to help capture some of those great stories that your parents and grandparents and great grandparents have probably told you dozens of times.
It’s something that we don’t always think about, but in a lot of ways those stories are some of the most cherished memories that we will walk away with from our family. And the sad thing is that our family cannot Be with us forever, but their memories can live on and this is where Dragon NaturallySpeaking really shows us its value. It’s true for $99 you can use Dragon NaturallySpeaking and you can type 150 words a minute. That’s a pretty good value for the software. It’s not too expensive and the benefit is tangible.
Now, you can get a useful tool at any computer store or Home Depot or Lowes, and if you don’t know how to use it well, then it really doesn’t matter what you pay for it. It is a waste of money.
Heather shows us a great way to use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to capture some of the most valuable information and stories from her father that she might ever be able to record not only for herself but for her daughter and her grandchildren someday and great-grandchildren and many other branches of the family even.
So that’s just another great reason why they Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a pretty cool piece of software. $99 could help you capture your family history easily and even make it indexable too, so that you can search it from your computer. That’s just amazing.
My name Brett Bumeter, and I write about Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I’ve been writing reviews about it for almost 2 years now. You could say that I’m sold on the software, and I hope that this article and this video helps show you the value of using it as well.
Sincerely,
Brett Bumeter
Softduit Media
www.softduit.com
PS this article is about 630 words long and it took me five minutes to write and another minute or two to edit with Dragon Naturally Speaking 10. Even with editing time that’s close to 100 words per minute!
Is anyone still taking helicopter flights to view the Grand Canyon? There was a time when crashes made the headlines and deterred tourists from considering a flight. I hope the businesses who offer helicopter flights have made flights safer and they are providing many flights to those of us wishing to see the Grand Canyon from the sky. 
