America, the Beautiful

ByDeborah Raney
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Ken and I are traveling for the month of October and discovered our campground for tonight in Vermont doesn’t have phone service or wifi, so we drove into a little town in search of wifi and now I’m posting quickly before we need to get back to our campground. We never like to arrive after dark, so this will be quick!

We left a week ago Sunday and in the 7 days we’ve been traveling, we have seen so much of God’s incredible creation! Here are just a few of the most stunning views we’ve seen, most of them in state parks, which we love. (If you’d like to see more photos, I’d love to have you follow me on our Raney Day Trippin Instagram account.)

HOCKING HILLS STATE PARK, OHIO

FOUR MILE CREEK STATE PARK, NEW YORK

on Lake Ontario near Niagara Falls, NY

NIAGARA FALLS STATE PARK, NEW YORK and CANADA

We added a new country to our passports, walking across the Rainbow Bridge

to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls!

WATKINS GLEN STATE PARK, NEW YORK

VERMONT

We also added a new state to our list of states we’ve visited and wow! did Vermont show off for us!

What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever visited? I’d love to know so maybe we can add some new destinations to our next trip!

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DEBORAH RANEY's first novel, A Vow to Cherish, inspired the World Wide Pictures film of the same title and launched Deb’s writing career. Forty books later, she's still creating stories that touch hearts and lives. Her novels have won RWA's RITA Award, the ACFW Carol Award, the National Readers Choice Award, and the HOLT Medallion. She is also a four-time Christy Award finalist. Deb is on faculty for several national writers’ conferences and served on the executive board of the 2,500-member American Christian Fiction Writers organization for 18 years before retiring in 2022. She is a recent transplant to Missouri, having moved with her husband, Ken Raney, from their native Kansas to be closer to kids and grandkids. They love road trips, e-biking, Friday garage sale dates, and breakfast on the screened porch overlooking their wooded backyard.

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    1. You can give Ken the credit because he taught me everything I know about photography, but I took all those pictures except the first one of me on the bridge! 🙂

  2. What a beautiful time of year to visit that area of the country (and Canada)! Enjoy the autumn wonders!

  3. Hi Deb, I love following along on your adventures. I think Colorado is probably the most beautiful state I’ve been to but those parks in NY and Vermont sure are gorgeous. God has such limitless creativity and how wonderful it is that He chose to make our world so beautiful for us. What a gift!

  4. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!We honeymooned in Niagara Falls, Canadian side, in 1966, just before my husband went to Vietnam.

    As an East Coaster, we’ve been from Florida to Maine and into Canada several times. Vermont is beautiful. Can’t pick a most beautiful place at the moment, but were so sold on Maine after our first trip there that we returned a number of times, making Bar Harbor a frequent destination. Our first trip to Maine was at the end of a New England trip, and we only made it to southern Maine. We stayed in the town of Ogunquit, which means “beautiful place by the sea” in the Abenaki Native American language, and it is.

    Happy trippin’ for the rest of October.

  5. Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton National Parks are among my favorites, having visited more than once, but we really enjoyed a trip combining Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia in CA. We always tried to include various state parks and historical sites in the regions.

  6. Never mind who the photographer is – you both take the most beautiful snaps and these are wonderful, Deb! So glad to hear you’re having a fun trip…and sharing with us!

  7. What gorgeous pictures! So happy for you guys—and wish we could blink and be there to join y’all on a bike ride!

  8. Your pictures are lovely. I have been to Vermont in the fall and loved it. But for me, nothing surpasses the beauty of Glacier National Park and the Flathead Lake region on Northwest Montana.

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