Blogs from Lyman, Wyoming, United States, North America

Saturday, 27 June, 2015 We left the campground this morning and drove to Craters of the Moon National Monument, about 20 miles from Arco, ID. It is comprised of 750,000 acres of lava. Lava in the form of cinder cones, lava tubes, lava caves, spatter cones, and both smooth flowing (pahoehoe) and rubble-like ('a'a) lava. The area started having eruptions about 15,000 years ago, the latest being about 2,000 years ago. This was not the result of one or two volcanoes, but a series of deep fissures known as the Great Rift. Scientists do think more eruptions are likely. The plants growing from the lava gives the area an other-worldly look. We then drove across southeast Idaho through Blackfoot and Pocatello to southwest Wyoming. We drove through some beautiful valleys green with fields of wheat, hay, ... read more

Taken from the journals of ZK: Date: 10-9-05 Location:Lyman/Fort Bridger Let’s see … when last I left off I was in RockSprings- The Red Desert longing for home. The weeks seem to go by too fast for me to keep up to date. The shows came together somehow, with Megan perfoming that week- like they always do- despite the kids lack of focus and lack of knowing any of their lines. Megan always seems gets to perform on the weeks with the “bad” kids and I always some how get the “good” kids. Always. Good and bad being relative terms ofcourse- perhaps "more challenging" and "less challenging" would be a better description. They are always great kids. We packed up and left to drive to Lyman about an hour east on 80. Seeing as how we ... read more