We are home, safe and sound. Thanks be to God. We really enjoyed our trip and were amazed at the things we saw. The views rivaled anything we’ve seen in Europe. Here are my thoughts and comments on the trip. National Parks trip summary and comments. Las Vegas - Nice, I went to LV because M likes this place. She wanted to stay 3 nights, so we did. You know the old saying - “When the wife’s happy, I’m happy.” Zion National Park - Excellent, wished we stayed overnight. Bryce Canyon National Park - Excellent, wished we stayed [View Full Entry]

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Well, folks, I guess I'll end the journal of our trip today. For the rest of our trip we'll visit friends, have a few drinks, and tell stories about the old days when we were young. I must say I really enjoyed relating our adventures and hope to do it again some day. By the way, have you looked at our picture show in my profite?I just love those 70's clothes. Giddyup [View Full Entry]

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Day 13 May 27 Rock Springs Wy - Pocatello, Id Yesterday evening, before going to bed I decided to check the weather in Yellowstone. I'm glad I did. They were predicting 6 inches of snow and major traffic problems with their holiday visitors. Now, we are not into stress and believe in keeping things as simple as possible, so we cancelled our reservations at Old Faithful and decided to stay out of the mountains as much as possible. We set the GPS lady for Pocatello, ID, and away we went, traveling on Interstate 80 and, later, on I15 north to Pocatello. [View Full Entry]

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May 26 Day 12 Vernal, utah, Dinosaur National Monument, Flaming Gorge, Rock Springs, Wyo. GPS Lady's Revenge. Our drive to Dinosaur National Monument is supposed to take about 15 minutes. The GPS lady had us driving down a road barking commands to turn right on nonexistant roads. I don't know what got into her mind. Maybe she was still upset from yesterday when I didn't pay attention and missed a turn. Geez, give me a break, having two touchey females in the car is just too much to take. I turned around and found drove for 5 miles and found a [View Full Entry]

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May 25 Day 11 Green River, Co to Vernal, Ut I guess you can call this a vacation day. Our day consisted of driving about 3 hours to Vernal, checking into our hotel, then reading and napping the day away. Vernal is the gateway to Dinosaur National Park. As we drive down the main street many of the signs are dinosaur related. Of course, we are staying at the Best Western Dinosaur Inn and just down the highway is the Dinosaur Museum (a must-see, I am told). We are in the Utahame Basin, a huge expanse of nothing to see except [View Full Entry]

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May 24 Day 10 Grand Jct Arches NP Dead Horse Pt Green River, Ut. We left Grand Jct around 9:30 after loading up on the Best Western's fine breakfast. In just a few minutes we are heading west on Interstate 70 where the speed limit is 75 and most everone is going faster than that, including the trucks. It's 35 miles to our next turn and I never touched the gas pedal almost all the way. Stick it at 80 and that's it. We crossed the state line and entered Utah. We turned south on Hwy 131 for about one hour [View Full Entry]

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May 23 Day 9 Durango to Silverton to Teluride to Grand Junction, Co. Durango 9:30 and out the door ready for our next adventure. I take highway 550, the San Juan Skyway which mostly follows the Animas river up the canyon. We climb about 3,000 feet and reach the Molas Pass at 11,000 feet. These ancient mountains were created by a huge volcano. When the volcano exploded it sent huge amounts of rocks into the air. The vacated and sunken area is called a caldera and is a huge valley surrounded by majestic mountain soaring 13,000 feet above us, the rim [View Full Entry]

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May 22 Day 8 Durango Silverton RRy To my brother Chuck - please read below. Man, did I sleep. I think I didn't wake up once all night. When I finall awakened and pulled out my ear plugs I realized that M was awake and it was 7am. We needed to get going because we wanted to be at the train station by 8:30am. Train Station you ask? Yes this is the day we take the Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Rail Way from Durango to Silverton. I remember making the reservations about 2 months ago. M and I had a discussion [View Full Entry]

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May 21 Day 6 Cortez, Co, Mesa Verde, Durango, Co. Just a few minutes to Mesa Verde from Cortez. We show our "old fart's pass" at the entrance ($10 gives you entrance for the rest of your life, if you are 50 or older.) and start the climb UP to the top of the green mesa. And I mean UP. For 40 minutes we go UP and UP. The views becoming more and more spectacular. At 8,000 feet we level off and stop at Park Point for a jaw dropping 360 degree view that easilly extends for 100 miles. We drive [View Full Entry]

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Well folks - I think I got my days screwed up and just found this unpublished journal. Day 6 - May 20 Monument Valley, Four Corners, Cortez, Colorado Leaving Mexican Hat at 9am, we deferred breakfast until we reached Kayenta, about 1 hour away. We didn't want to take a chance on breakfast in Mexican Hat after our gormet dinner last night. Then around a bend, up a grade and THERE IT IS!!! Monument Valley. This is what I wanted to see. All those cowboy movies - John Wayne, the prairie scooners, covered wagons, kids walking alongside the wagon with their [View Full Entry]

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