Blogs from Olympia, Washington, United States, North America - page 4

Well today I think we tried to see how much stuff we could pack into one day. It all began by me sleeping late this morning. I did not wake up until 6 am...can you believe it??? Once we got up, it was off to Wind Cave for the "Fairground Tour". This was supposed to be the longest tour they offered other than the candlelite tour and it was fully booked. We spent almost an hour and a half in 49 degree temperatures in the cave. I bumped my shoulder and head a couple of times on the top of the cave but we made it out unhurt. After leaving there, we took a tour of "Custer State Park". This is a large state park that you can drive through and see different kinds of Deer, ... read more

We finally made it to Mississippi on Wednesday night. It was really nice to be able to rest after driving over 600 miles. On Thursday we went to Oxford and drove around the campus of the University of Mississippi. That afternoon we went to where my grandparents used to live and visited a couple of cemetaries. Marie Bailey took us out to dinner on Thursday night and we had Catfish (YUM!!!) On Friday we spent the day in Memphis and had dinner on Beale Street with some friends from Olive Branch, MS. On Saturday, some of my relativies came over and we cooked out for dinner. This was a lot of fun for everyone. We left on Sunday morning heading to St. Joseph, MO.... read more

When I was growing up, watching Western movies were a part of life. And because of that I always wanted to go to Monument Valley where many of the Westerns were filmed. Today our journey took us to the heart of the valley and as usual around here; it was VERY hot. Before getting there, we first visited the Navajo National Monument. The elevation there was over 7300 feet above sea level. Of course it took a little while to get used to the lighter air. Leaving there we went to Monument Valley and the rocks there were just as huge as I had thought they would be. To me this was more spectactular than the Grand Canyon. There was a Navajo Indian celebration going on at the Visitor Center and they were selling Jewlery and ... read more

Today (Wednesday) we traveled from Vegas, across the Hoover Dam, to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, through the Painted Desert and ended our days journey at Page, Arizona. We were very dissapointed at the Hoover Dam. It was not near as large as we had visioned it to be. The Grand Canyon was HUGE!!! I kept worring the Nicole or Marie was going to slide off one of the rocks and fall into the Canyon. The senery was spectactular driving from the Grand Canyon to Page, Arizona. Tomorrow, we travel to Monument Valley and stay in Farmington, New Mexico. There are lots of things along the way we are planning to do also.... read more

Well we finally made it to Reno. The trip was really fun. We took the back roads and saw a lot of really pretty senery. The entire trip was about 650 miles and took us eleven hours. We got to our hotel and almost passed out; we were really tired. The fires in CA caused a lot of smoke about 50 mile outside of Reno. Tomorrow we are getting up very early and heading to Death Valley. The temperature is supposed to be a little above 120 F. Tonight in Reno it is a very pleasant 74 F. ... read more