The Chronicles of John Trammell

One month ago, my parents decided to plan out a trip Death Valley National Park to see all the wildflowers that would be in bloom due to the amount of rain we have gotten.  I decided to take the opportunity to tag along, and make the trip a photography focused trip.  We (my mom, dad, sister, and I) went to Death Valley National Park from March 16-19, 2010, during our spring break vacation.  The trip did not turn out how I expected it, for it turned into a "see as much as you can" trip instead of a trip more focused on photography.  After I calmed down from this disappointment on the second day, I really got to enjoy being in the national park.  Got to see many wonderful things from a hidden canyon watershed, to very well preserved historical buildings/artifacts, to seeing a endangered species.  In all, the trip went well, other than getting annoyed that the parents didn't do much research on the park, which made them less prepared during...

A few days ago, Scotty showed me a photo of one of the most beautiful waterfalls that I have ever seen, called  Havasu Falls.  Out of all the waterfalls I have ever seen in my life, none has compared to the beauty of this waterfall.  The Havasu River flows through the red stoned canyon south of Grand Canyon National Park.  Just the color of the water makes this trip worth going to.  Instead of me just sitting here talking about it, look below at two photos of this wonderful waterfall.  Click on the photos to enlarge them.  The photo on the right was taken by David Wagner and the photo on the right is from sunrisefantasy.com  You might be wondering how you can get to this waterfall.  It isn't just a simple drive to a location and to walk.  The waterfall is located on the Havasupai Native American Reservation in Arizona.  Two miles from the Supai Villiage, which is the most remote community in the continental U...

For those who don't know, I work for the 4-H Military Partnership/Operation: Military Kids Program at the California 4-H State Office at UC Davis near Sacramento. In December of 2009, my boss gave me a change to be in charge of two events for our Speak out for Military Kids (SOMK) project.  For all of our past SOMK events, I have always been the facilitator, while a co-worker of mine planed out the logistics, registration, contacting youth, and providing transportation if needed.  This time around, I was in charge of everything from facilitating to logistics to registration and so on.  With the help of my co-workers, I worked the past three months to plan, market, and run two SOMK events.  Speak out for Military Kids is a project that gets military youth and youth from the community to come together to work on projects to help educate the general public about the hardships military youth and families go through, or work on projects that will help benefit the milit...