He Knew He Was Right

So, when I visited Hot Springs National Park on my last trip, it kind of rekindled a somewhat dormant desire to see National Parks. Ballparks and football stadiums have been the focal points of my non-ski travel quests lately. When I stitched together this recent trip to some southern ballparks, however, and looked for things to do around Little Rock, Hot Springs jumped out at me. After stopping there (and, yeah, acquiring that Passports to Your National Parks ), I imagined my next couple of vacations with what NPs I might visit as a main focus of them. Bold shows what I've seen to date: Acadia, Maine American Samoa, American Samoa Arches, Utah Badlands, South Dakota Big Bend, Texas Biscayne, Florida Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado Bryce Canyon, Utah Canyonlands, Utah Capitol Reef, Utah Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico Channel Islands, California Congaree, South Carolina Crater Lake, Oregon Cuyahoga Valley, Ohio Death Valley, California  Denali, Alaska Dry...

It's kind of funny, but with two new stadiums visited this season, this list looks sufficiently different from last year's list that I think it worth sharing again. :) Year Date Home team Stadium Opponent, score, notes 1988 Giants / Jets † Giants* Giants & Jets home games 1990 11/4 Browns † Municipal BUF42-CLE0 11/5 Colts † Hoosierdome NYG24-IND7 1991 9/8 Bengals † Riverfront HOU30-CIN7 9/15 Bears Soldier Field CHI20-NYG17 1993 12/11 Redskins RFK NYJ3-WAS0 1997 12/7 Ravens Memorial Stadium BAL31-SEA24 1998 11/1 Redskins Jack Kent Cooke* (Fedex) WAS21-NYG14 2000 11/19 Ravens PSINet* BAL27-DAL0 12/3 Chargers Qualcomm SF45-SD17 2001 12/2 Dolphins Pro Player ...

Announcing the North American National Parks Project! I love and loathe lists/goals like this. They put good and vile ideas in my head. After all, I have this thing about completing them. So far, I have completed travel tasks such as seeing all 50 states, touching all five Great Lakes, seeing all 30 MLB teams play a home game, and then seeing all current MLB ballparks. I'm also well underway to doing the same for NFL stadiums. Next, I already have an idea about trying to see a sporting event in all 50 states; I'm at 27 at the moment. I'm not really committed to that last one, but there are about a half dozen states--those which I've only previously driven through, e.g.--where I am planning on spending a bit more travel time. Anyway, travel king Everything Everywhere wants to see all of the National Parks. I've seen a bunch. He posted this list, which I trust is accurate, and I've made bold those I've visited: Acadia, Maine American Samoa, American Sa...

Ok, here it is. The list of my first visits to each MLB venue... Year Date Home team Stadium 1975 Mets/Yankees Shea* 1985 Yankees Yankee* 1991 5/28 Orioles Memorial Stadium 6/22 Red Sox Fenway 9/9 Cardinals Busch 9/10 Royals Kansas City 9/13 Brewers Milwaukee County 9/14 Cubs Wrigley 1993 5/17 Giants Candlestick 5/28 A’s Oakland 7/17 Orioles Camden Yards* 8/28,29 Indians Cleveland (old) 9/17 Twins HHH Metrodome 1994 7/21 Blue Jays Skydome 1996 9/13 Rangers The Ballpark at Arlington 1997 9/1 Phillies Veterans 1999 5/28 Indians Jacobs Field 5/29 Tigers Tiger 7/23 Rockies Coors Field ...