Sunshine!!! We had a day full of sunshine, today!!! I’m feeling restored. We left the hotel this morning at 8:30 and 57 degrees and pointed the car toward the Canadian boarder. Yes, we are back in Canada for a few days. Our target was Kamloops, but the drive was going to get us there around noontime, so we had to find something else to do. I know…tough assignment, but we had to do it. We chose to follow the Fraser River north and it turned out to be a great choice. Yes, another river byway. Seems to be a theme here, Mississippi, Payette, Snake, Columbia, and now Fraser. It took about two hours to get to the border and cross over. The crossing was totally uneventful. There was a long line of cars waiting to cross ... read more

First let me begin with this. Today is Steve’s 70thbirthday. So, Happy Birthday, Steve. For a few weeks, you will be older than me. And I get to say that every year. Ok, so today we got going at 8:10 and 59 degrees. It was not promising to get much over 60 degrees, so it was really a long-pants and sweatshirt day. Course, that didn’t stop the people from around here. Many of them were running around in shorts and tees. Hopefully they noticed our license plate and understood. Today we went to Olympic National Park, which is on a big chunk of land west of Seattle, sticking out into the Pacific Ocean. We drove up the west side of the park and for a couple of hours we saw mostly forest, some of which was ... read more

We left the hotel this morning at 8:22 and 70 degrees and headed out on another scenic ride. And what a ride it was. I begin by apologizing that my camera just does not do justice to what we saw today. We, as people, see everything in a 180 degree landscape and the camera only catches a small portion of that. In addition, there was a lot of smoke in the air again today. But I will say, that the first 4-5 hours of this drive are what I would characterize as eye-popping scenery. In fact, my “driver” was reduced to a one-word vocabulary all morning…”WOW”. I heard that over and over again. Later in the day, he expanded his vocabulary to “look at this”. And I heard that one again and again. So, I hope ... read more

Today was another moving day. We left Winter Park at 6:55 AM and 39 chilling degrees and headed for Idaho. We wore shorts today, believe it or not, because the temperature in Pocatello, ID was going to be 81 degrees. Thanks to my seat warmer, I was kept toasty warm all morning. The first leg of our trip took us west and then north and after half an hour, we were in the Arapaho National Forest and then the Routt National Forest. This was really what you might think of, when you think forest. The road took us through narrow alleys lined with Aspen, all standing tall, side-by-side, perfectly straight, with their picturesque white bark and delicate leaves fluttering in the breeze. For 120 miles, we saw fewer than a dozen cars and it occurred to ... read more

We got up early again this morning and headed out for Winter Park, Colorado. We left at 7:42 and 63 degrees and headed west. Since the drive to Winter Park was less than three hours, we decided that we would do some Colorado sightseeing first. There certainly is plenty to see here, if you are into scenery and mountains, and we are. However, there was a lot of haze/smog/fog/smoke/clouds in the sky today. I am not sure what was hanging up there, but it interfered with the view and resulted in photos that are less than spectacular. The State of Colorado web site tells me that there are wild fires in NW Canada and NW United States and that the smoke is causing haze in Colorado. So, I have to believe that it was a combination ... read more