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Welcome home. Sounds like you had a great time. Hopefully you used more gasoline than you drank wine! ;-) I much enjoyed reading about your adventures - you wrote a very nice account that read very well - and seeing your wonderful photo
s. Another trip seems in the cards for you. I still have 17 or so states to go. We live in an amazing country. We forget that at times, getting involved in all the day to day stuff. When we have been to places in the US of A, we see people from all over the world. Our first night in Kennecott Lodge in Alaska, at our table of 8, there were couples from Argentina, Israel, and Austria - coming to see things than many Americans never do. Well done, Jackie and Steve.

Pure gold never tarishes so it must have been something else. I think Colorado's capital dome is sheathed in gold, though. Regarding snow, when we were in Yellowstone in 2005, on September 12 we got a helluva snow squall. I have never see
n snow so early before. The temperature dropped like a rock and we got about 4 inches of snow in an hour or so! We barely made it in our little rental car on the roads in the park. Campers were off the roads all over the place.

Mark Twain was an avid traveler by wheels: Twain and his brother traveled more than two weeks on a stagecoach across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, visiting the Mormon community in Salt Lake City. The experiences inspired Roughin
g It and provided material for "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". Twain's journey ended in the silver-mining town of Virginia City, Nevada, where he became a miner.[19] Twain failed as a miner and worked at a Virginia City newspaper, the Territorial Enterprise.[20] Here he first used his pen name. On February 3, 1863, he signed a humorous travel account "Letter From Carson ? re: Joe Goodman; party at Gov. Johnson's; music" with "Mark Twain."[21]Twain moved to San Francisco, California in 1864, still as a journalist. He met writers such as Bret Harte, Artemus Ward, and Dan DeQuille. The young poet Ina Coolbrith may have romanced him.[22]