We had three lovely days at Zion National Park. It has been many years since we’ve been there because it’s a little bit out of the way for us – too far south for our usual route into Utah and too far north for getting into Arizona, and it’s difficult to find a campsite there. [...]
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Saturday, November 7, 2009 Home again
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Friday, October 30, 2009
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From Needles, we headed south to Monument Valley, a spectacular area, with orange and crimson buttes all over the place. We spent a night in the town of Mexican Hat, a tiny hamlet named after the rock formation above town. We drove around the Valley of the Gods, a dirt-road circuit that meanders past dramatic [...]
Saturday, October 24, 2009
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Alamosa, 40 miles from Great Sand Dunes, was the destination for Sunday afternoon. They had a wildlife reserve and I wanted to see if there were any cranes there. I drove out to look and what a disappointment. Not only had the water been drained from most of the land I was driving around, but [...]
Sunday, October 18, 2009
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After languishing in Rapid City for another day, we finally made it out and headed south. The roads were mostly dry and not icy – lucky after so much snow and extremely low temperatures. We had a cold weather problem with the RV – the gray water tank was solidly frozen at the external end [...]
Sunday, October 11, 2009 (BRRRRRRR!!!!!)
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O Lord, stuck in Rapid City, again. (Lodi scans better.) It’s snowing this morning and every road south has travel advisories. We’ve done the laundry and grocery shopping, so it’s read, blog, see a movie or hit the mall. Dave doesn’t seem too interested in a Backgammon tournament.
Our Thursday outing was a walk around the [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 (Brrrr!)
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We woke up to about an inch of snow on Monday. It was chilly and snowy with gray skies, but we took a 1.3-mile walk around the base of Devil’s Tower. It is an eerie place, with the 867-foot tower jutting out of the prairie landscape. There were many more Indian prayer flags and bundles [...]
Sunday, October 4, 2009 (Brrr!)
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We did another drive of Yellowstone’s upper loop. It had snowed on top of the mountains which provided a different view of the park. The required place to stop was the Nature Trail, which contained our rock. Our rock is a large boulder with a bench directly in front of it. You can either face [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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On Saturday, we began the drive to Yellowstone. Lots of prairie – rolling hills covered in grass. We ended up in Helena for the night. There was smoke from a nearby fire; Montana has as many fires as California, many of them started by lightning. We continued south the next day and ended up at [...]
Friday, September 25, 2009
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On Monday, we drove to the east side of Glacier, about 100 miles away. St. Mary is a very small town next to very large St. Mary Lake. We stayed at the park campground; Mary and Rick stayed at a homey little cabin, “Flat Top”, where the furniture was built by the owners. To celebrate [...]
Sunday, September 20, 2009
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Glacier National Park is spectacular. It’s like a bigger version of Yosemite, with 3,000-foot mountains all around. We went halfway through the park on Friday on Going-to-the-Sun Road. As you drive along the river, you look up and see this little line cutting across a mountain, 2,000 feet up from where you are. That’s the [...]
