Sorry for the delay, but uploading 3000 photos can take some time. No, don't worry, I'm not going to post them all here, I'm limiting shots (sorry for the duplicate, i can't figure out how to delete it), if you want to see more, let me know. A couple of things I wanted to comment on now that the trip is over is the hotels and the food. For the most part, the hotels were fine. A couple of Holiday Inn's, a couple of Radisson's, the Snow Lodge at Old Faithful (which I liked very much, even is some of our group were disappointed to not stay at the Old Faithful Inn). The thing I didn't like was that a few of the hotels were "lodges" which meant that the rooms were in separate buildings from ... read more

I visited the Grand Canyon a few years ago on a day trip, so knew what to expect of it. But even with foreknowledge, that great big rent in the Earth is still something breathtaking. And that's not just due to the elevation. Left Lake Powell in the morning and drove through the Painted Desert. Lunch was on the Navajo reservation. Yum, fry bread with honey! The trading post at Cameron could easily suck in all my money, it has some incredible things, but I was able to restrain myself. Got to the Canyon in the mid-afternoon, and made a stop at the Desert View and a couple of other places before heading to our hotel, the Thunderbird Lodge on the rim of the canyon. Had an early dinner (with a view of the canyon), then ... read more

Today started with a re-trace of our route into Bryce. That's part of the fun of this trip, a good bit of it is spent getting from one cool place to the next and often you have to backtrack your previous day's drive. But the scenery is enjoyable, so it's okay. Drove to Zion Canyon. Entry into the canyon is a bit hair-raising. First you go through a tunnel built in the 1930's. And since it was built when cars were smaller, so now they only let a bunch of vehicles in at a time in one direction. The tunnel has these huge "windows" in it, designed for ventilation purposes and they give you your first great view of the canyon. Once through the tunnel, you go down this wonderful switchback road. It's so new that ... read more

Today was another long day on the bus, from Jackson Wyoming to Salt Lake City Utah. Through some very pretty, but very snowy, mountains. And an added bonus, we actually cut through Idaho, so I can tick that off my list of states visited. The funniest bit of the day was when our bus suddenly slowed down and stopped on the highway. There were a bunch of puppies on the road, and our tour guide got out of the bus and shooed them back onto the farm they seem to have wandered off from. They were adorable. Lunch stop was in Logan, Utah, and when we got into SLC, we stopped at the State Capitol Building and then had an hour at the Temple Square. I remember taking a tour through a big visitors' center last ... read more

Monday morning we visited the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Very nice museum, 5 galleries including a Plains Indian section, a Natural History of Yellowstone section, the Whitney Art Gallery, a firearms exhibit and a section about Buffalo Bill himself. In true fashion, that was the section I most wanted to see, and it was the one that was closed. Sigh.... The other galleries were nice, with the Western Art being the nicest. I didn't go into the firearms wing, but did go out into the sculpture garden. Even though the museum was nice, and I'm glad we stopped there, I think it would have been nicer to have more time in the Park itself. Drive to and through the Park was really nice. Got to Old Faithful just in time to watch it go off. Gotta ... read more