This morning we left Buhl, ID around 8:30 am and just hit the interstates (I84 and I15) to get to Zion Canyon National Park. We drove through Ogden, Salt Lake City, Provo and many other places as we made our way south through Utah. It took us about 9.5 hours in tital and that included a stop in Ogden at a Costco to pick up a few supplies for meals so we don't have to stop and eat lunch at restaurants. I only took a few pictures and those are of the approach into Zion Canyon. Tonight and tomorrow night we [View Full Entry]

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After a kind of "passed out" sleep last night it was great to have a relaxing day in this beautiful canyon of the Snake River. My aunt Peggy and uncle Phil's place is on the south side of the canyon half way up the slope and has an amazing view of the river and east and west along the canyon. For those of you who are not familiar with the Snake River Canyon, this is the canyon Evel Knievel unsuccessfully attempted to jump back in the 70's (?). I woke up about 7 am and spent a couple of hours chatting [View Full Entry]

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I am writing this blog entry from my aunt and uncle's house in Buhl, ID and so I don't have access to my own computer and they anf Ken are all upstairs having a drink (or two or...) so I have to be quick! Today started with our breakfast in the restaurant of the hotel and then a 2 hour drive west to Craters of the Moon National Monument. What an amazing place. It looks so desolate and eerie as it is a huge field of lava rock from thousands of years of volcanic activity in this region of Idaho. The [View Full Entry]

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Today's drive was long and uneventful. We left Lethbridge at about 9 am and got into Idaho Fall, ID at about 7 pm. The drive was uneventful though we passed through some bad weather in southern Montana....from Butte to the Idaho boundary line. The temperature got up to 30C (86F) and when we went into the storm, the temperature dropped to 12C (about 54F) in the space of about 10 miles! The scenery went from the flat prairies of southern Alberta and northern Montana to the mountains and hills of southern Montana and Idaho. It was really beautiful! We saw many, [View Full Entry]

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We got on the road from Calgary on time today.....a first for us! The drive down to L.A. was about 1.5 hours and it was sunny and clear and a beautiful day. We arrived in L.A. around 5 pm and had a tee time for 6:30 pm. Ok, ok...it was Lethbridge, Alberta and the club was a small 9 hole course on an irrigation reservoir on the prairie of southern Alberta. The clubhouse screwed up and our tee time was not available as there was a tournament in progress that was full of duffers who were even worse, and much drunker, [View Full Entry]

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I am getting excited about our trip coming up next Friday. I am a travel nut and I haven't been anywhere in over a year so it's about time! We decided we'd leave Frisay night, July 24 and spend the first night in Lethbridge with Paul, our second son, and his GF, Brenda, which will take a good 2 hours off our first day's drive down to Idaho Falls. Hope the border crossing is okay....they tend to like to be a bit arrogant at the US crossings these days. At any rate, the excitement is building. I am sure I'll get [View Full Entry]

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