tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28315869638815497472024-03-13T03:26:00.328-07:00Bill and Debbie's BlogNow you can track our truck camper travels and some of the other stuff we do. Double click on any image to blow it up to full size. Be sure to click on the "older posts" link at the bottom of the page to see all of the pages.Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-16796428305967830912014-09-26T16:32:00.001-07:002014-11-09T13:01:37.200-08:00Exploring the Area Around Cortez and Dolores Colorado and Back Home Through New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sO2EsL9rNi4/VCYMezj_q4I/AAAAAAAADTU/GTMD7vnoNGQ/s1600/2014%2BTrip%2BWest.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sO2EsL9rNi4/VCYMezj_q4I/AAAAAAAADTU/GTMD7vnoNGQ/s320/2014%2BTrip%2BWest.bmp" /></a></div>
After a great visit to Mesa Verde National Park, Bill got to ride the new mountain bike trails outside of Cortez Colorado. These are called “Phil's World”. They were not that technical, but very flowy. The section called the “Rib Cage” was, well , exceptional. We took off north from Delores and and found a nice remote Forest Service campground around 10,000 feet altitude. There were only three campers in the place and the lonely “camp host” was kind of a nuisance. He became worse than a nuisance, when a young bull moose wandered into the campground and as all of us scrambled for our cameras, this idiot ran to his truck, started the motor, revved it and scared the moose away. First fact, moose can be dangerous when they are cows with calves, but a lone bull fifty yards away is no threat at all. I asked this hero why he scared it away and he said, “because they are dangerous”. I do not think that he had ever seen one before. ( Moose in southern Colorado are still quite rare). One of the other campers had a simpler explanation, “That guy is from Texas”.
We headed south to the Lowry Ruins near in the Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. This was an interesting, well preserved pueblo way down a dirt road.
We then dropped down into New Mexico and spent the night at Echo Amphitheater. This natural rock amphitheater would echo everything that you said or yelled. We were the only people in the campground (which is not that unusual for us.) Debbie announced that we we were having steaks for dinner and so of course, I had to cook them on a pinon pine and sage brush fire that I started Indian style.
We took a back road to Villaneuava State Park in New Mexico, stopping for an incredible lunch at the Riza Cafe. The burrito would have fed at least two ranch hands. We boxed the leftovers and had them for dinner. Villaneuava State Park was a funky little campground next to the Pecos River. This famous river is about six inches deep here. We did some hiking.
We continued on to the Pecos National Historical Park. This was a pueblo ruin that was fascinating because the Spaniards had conquered the local Indians and forced them to convert part of their pueblo into a Catholic church.
We blew through the Texas panhandle (past the world's biggest cross) and spent nights in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee. In Arkansas, we went to Hot Springs National Park, which was our 41st (out of 58) National Parks. It was really weird since there is no entry gate and the whole park consists of four renovated bathhouses from the early 20th century and some park lands with a few hiking trails. We think that this should more accurately be designated a national historic site. Nevertheless we had an interesting tour of one of the famous bathouses and drank from some of the famous springs with purportedly healthful attributes.
Our last night out was at the Cosby Campground in Smoky Mountain National Park where we traditionally spend our last night before getting home. We rolled in to this almost vacant campground and picked a site. Very quickly the campground host pulled up and told us that the site was “reservable” and so we could not stay there. I observed that it was highly unlikely that anyone would be reserving that campsite on a Thursday night in an almost empty campground. After driving nearly 400 miles, I was not in the mood to roll over and so we basically told them that we would do whatever we were going to do. They kept coming by to check up on us and of course no one came into that site that night. They basically spent all day driving their SUV around and around the camp loops looking and checking on people. You could walk the whole campground in a few minutes. Most campground hosts that we have met ( and we have camped more than 500 nights) have been great, but these were extremely annoying.
The map of our trip is below.
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We got up early this morning and went into Mesa Verde National Park. This is a very busy park so it is essential to get an early start. We got our tickets and toured the famous cliff dwellings, Cliff Palace , Balcony House and Spruce Tree House. Balcony House requires climbing a 32 foot ladder and ,when leaving, crawling through a twelve foot tunnel on hands and knees and a few more ladders. This is my fifth visit to the park and it has changed a lot over the years. It now has so many visitors that there can be long lines to get the tickets that are now required for the various ranger led visits to the archeological sites. In any case, it went smoothly for us and we managed to see almost all of the sights before the first big rain storm of our trip erupted in all of its power and glory over the ancient canyons of Mesa Verde in the 8,000 foot high desert.
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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vnCoKjQj-jk/VBpWpUG60HI/AAAAAAAADOY/HcOSnRybCdI/s320/DSCN5184.jpg" /></a></div>Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-85522194516945107692014-09-17T20:24:00.000-07:002014-09-17T20:58:33.080-07:00Into The Heart of Canyonlands National ParkI'm always sorry to see Moab in the rear view mirror, but I was looking forward to getting to the Needles district of Canyonlands. After a beautiful drive very early on Monday morning we were lucky to get what may be the best campsite in the park. There are only about 25 sites and they are well dispersed so you really feel like you have the whole world to yourself. That afternoon, we hiked all of the “short “ trails, finishing with the Slickrock trail, that even though it was only two and one half miles long, in the heat it felt much longer. Of course the sunset was epic. In the morning I took off with my bike intending to see how far I could get up the Elephant Hill trail towards the confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers. This is a twenty mile round trip trail with a one mile foot hike from the end of the four wheel drive road to the confluence. Elephant Hill is a legendary four wheel drive trail that is very steep and rocky and generally requires a modified short wheel base jeep to make the climb (and descent). It's much easier on a mountain bike. I kept going and despite some deep sand, I make it to the confluence. I think that it's cool that the only way to actually see it is to walk ten miles, bike 21 miles or do an extreme jeep road with a foot hike at the end. Even though this is near the high season, I was surprised to encounter only two other bikers who had made it half way and were turning around. I drank three liters of water on the ride and spent the rest of the afternoon re-hydrating and chill'n in the shade.
The next morning we spent a frustrating hour replacing a bolt and nut on my truck's suspension that had dropped out from all the rough roads we had done and repressurizing the airbags. I have forgotten to bring any socket wrenches so I was trying to tighten the nut with two crappy crescent wrench a millimeter at a time. At least I had packed some spair bolts.
We finally left the beautiful Squaw Flats campsite and headed out of the park and stopped at the famous Newspaper Rock which is an amazing collection of petroglyphs that date back several thousand years. 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Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-87424975836968966362014-09-12T18:33:00.003-07:002014-09-13T15:50:37.441-07:00Heading Further West. After the Flat Top Wilderness, we continued west into Utah and Dinosaur National Park. We were here several years ago and the exhibits were all closed for repairs. The fossil wall is open now and you can see hundreds of fossils. We repeated our hike of the Fossil Trail and located the sauropod femur that we had found years ago. This time a big piece had been chipped out of it by some vandal. The next day on the radio, we heard that the theft had just been discovered by the park service and there was a reward offered for information about the crime. Bill did a hike along the Green River which was many miles from anywhere and we tested out our new shortwave radios which seem to actually have at least a 10 mile range. The last day we toured the native American rock art sites. We saw both pictographs and petroglyphs in several locations. No one know why the Native Americans made these over one thousand years ago, but I think that it indicates that they didn't have such a hard time surviving and found some extra time on there hands to make cool pictures on the rocks.
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Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-57156415923623367442014-09-11T20:51:00.000-07:002014-09-11T20:53:08.294-07:00Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Points Beyond.After a great time in Boulder, we took off for Rocky Mountain National Park and drove over the highest highway in America, Trail Ridge Road. We camped at a cool campsite and saw elks and heard the bugling of the bulls since it is the start of the rut season. Once over the 12,200 foot pass, we dropped down the western slope and into the Flattop Wilderness. We camped at several mountain lakes and got caught in an afternoon rainstorm halfway through a six mile hike. 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This is the last post for this trip. The picture above is the map of everywhere that we camped. To see the whole trip you have to work backward from this most recent entry and go down. At the bottom of the page you will need to click on "older post" to see everything. You can click on any picture and blow it up to full size and quality.
The total mileage was 12,202. The truck ran flawlessly, the camper worked great, Debbie's gourmet meals were non-stop and the scenery was magnificent. The weather was incredible. It only rained a few days and most of the time it was sunny and warm. We did have a few nights when the temps dipped into the thirties, but it rarely got above eighty degrees in the daytime.
After our last post, below, we left Hays River, Northwest Territories and turned the bow of the truck southeast and headed home. We dropped down into Alberta and then east into Saskatchewan and on into Manitoba. From Winnipeg it was straight south into Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and finally Raleigh North Carolina. Along the way we saw a reconstructed frontier town in Saskatchewan and stayed in a farm field in Manitoba. We loved watching the land change from the arctic tundra, to the mountains, to the foothills, to the plains and the plains and the plains. The Appalachians were just a bump in the road after this trip. Besides these photos, out biggest souvenir of the trip was the, at least, ten million bugs I just cleaned off of the truck and camper! <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q3wTbSRamsE/Uh5ZdWu-GcI/AAAAAAAACaU/ojKg76KRwj8/s1600/DSCN4829.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q3wTbSRamsE/Uh5ZdWu-GcI/AAAAAAAACaU/ojKg76KRwj8/s320/DSCN4829.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x9UXE9KVZsI/Uh5Zrca--HI/AAAAAAAACac/F6g_QuWQqLk/s1600/DSCN4830.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x9UXE9KVZsI/Uh5Zrca--HI/AAAAAAAACac/F6g_QuWQqLk/s320/DSCN4830.jpg" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eoBR1zK4hsM/Uh5Z28XvMVI/AAAAAAAACak/xXaMoMTuCJ8/s1600/DSCN4834.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eoBR1zK4hsM/Uh5Z28XvMVI/AAAAAAAACak/xXaMoMTuCJ8/s320/DSCN4834.jpg" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vYaEiB_56X0/Uh5aUKuQVfI/AAAAAAAACbE/QlRNbVwnujg/s1600/DSCN4840.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vYaEiB_56X0/Uh5aUKuQVfI/AAAAAAAACbE/QlRNbVwnujg/s320/DSCN4840.jpg" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hEj5w72AhqE/Uh5aPylLoDI/AAAAAAAACa8/XVaNIEmV4a8/s1600/DSCN4838.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hEj5w72AhqE/Uh5aPylLoDI/AAAAAAAACa8/XVaNIEmV4a8/s320/DSCN4838.jpg" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iZ2a3ZTL594/Uh5aIpp2JlI/AAAAAAAACa0/fSiLtlUVKfw/s1600/DSCN4836.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iZ2a3ZTL594/Uh5aIpp2JlI/AAAAAAAACa0/fSiLtlUVKfw/s320/DSCN4836.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vw-GcSzP_5A/Uh5Z8Y47njI/AAAAAAAACas/8ukM55JmXW0/s1600/DSCN4835.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vw-GcSzP_5A/Uh5Z8Y47njI/AAAAAAAACas/8ukM55JmXW0/s320/DSCN4835.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DPfr_am6S8w/Uh5bW-hbC6I/AAAAAAAACbk/aKkCOBEJtRM/s1600/DSCN4859.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DPfr_am6S8w/Uh5bW-hbC6I/AAAAAAAACbk/aKkCOBEJtRM/s320/DSCN4859.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bgEF5wGHAIQ/Uh5bUrx_9GI/AAAAAAAACbc/KnzWYbH2psM/s1600/DSCN4863.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bgEF5wGHAIQ/Uh5bUrx_9GI/AAAAAAAACbc/KnzWYbH2psM/s320/DSCN4863.jpg" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6VbkZf3OkNk/Uh5bvjOy58I/AAAAAAAACb8/3sLvTz8qy1c/s1600/DSCN4865.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6VbkZf3OkNk/Uh5bvjOy58I/AAAAAAAACb8/3sLvTz8qy1c/s320/DSCN4865.jpg" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oABy8pttD20/Uh5b521zrjI/AAAAAAAACcc/p7NwAKe5ZQs/s1600/IMG_4465.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oABy8pttD20/Uh5b521zrjI/AAAAAAAACcc/p7NwAKe5ZQs/s320/IMG_4465.JPG" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZZN3f8Uv8v4/Uh5br7kaKhI/AAAAAAAACb0/NVslN020kEM/s1600/IMG_4461.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZZN3f8Uv8v4/Uh5br7kaKhI/AAAAAAAACb0/NVslN020kEM/s320/IMG_4461.JPG" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-StGJotZMw3A/Uh5bjaZ3EQI/AAAAAAAACbs/h0bHA6y-DIk/s1600/IMG_4459.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-StGJotZMw3A/Uh5bjaZ3EQI/AAAAAAAACbs/h0bHA6y-DIk/s320/IMG_4459.JPG" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p_nH4WsaYgE/Uh5b3mTFZ4I/AAAAAAAACcU/30rwWc6ja34/s1600/IMG_4468.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p_nH4WsaYgE/Uh5b3mTFZ4I/AAAAAAAACcU/30rwWc6ja34/s320/IMG_4468.JPG" /></a><br />
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We rarely saw another vehicle and spent the first night at a rustic campground in an Indian village. We visited a group of young girls working in a beautiful vegetable garden under the supervision of an older woman who wound up presenting us with fresh lettuce, snow peas to add to our supper. The road was far worse than the Top of the World. It was muddy, dusty, narrow and had sections of washboard that reminded me of driving in Africa. After three days of horrible road, but beautiful wilderness we arrived at Watson Lake (we did not repeat a single mile of the Alaskan Highway going or coming!) we dropped into British Columbia on one of the most scenic drives ever and saw wildlife everywhere. By the way, the thing that looks like a fire extinquiser on my belt is bear spray. I'm always glad when I do not have to use it. Wild bison, a black bear, caribou and even stone sheep were hanging out right along the road. We stopped at some natural hot springs that were the hottest that I have ever experienced. The only gas station along the drive had a comment posted on his gas pump in response to reactions to his prices. If you look closely you will see that the price is $ 1.79 per liter, or about $ 6.75 per gallon!!! We camped at a beautiful site at Muncho Lake and continued the next day up into the Northwest Territories. <br />
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Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-3389264117110972013-08-19T15:02:00.004-07:002013-08-19T15:47:07.078-07:00Chicken Alaska to Dawson Yukon.We left Valdez Alaska and enjoyed the beautiful scenic drive up to Tok. Lots of waterfalls and views of the snow covered Wrangell Mountains. Again we were alone in a small state campground that was situated on the old gold rush trail which included an abandoned railroad tunnel. We continued up the Taylor Highway to the town of Chicken, so named because the first settlers could not spell Ptarmigan, the common bird of the area. This is a funky town of dirt roads and old mining equipment and a huge chicken statue with way signs pointing to various corners of the globe – including Lizard Lick, NC! After Chicken, the Top of the World Highway and became a serious narrow, no-shoulder, no-guard rail, thousand foot drop off dirt road that winds up to the Canadian Border. The border checkpoint was a lonely windblown outpost above treeline and I almost asked the bored looking Canadian guard what he had done to merit such an assignment (but thought better of it). We descended the tundra into the famous gold rush town of Dawson City where we found a nice little campground right on the Yukon River. We took a funky ferry across the river into the town, which seemed little changed from it's wild days. We saw what was supposed to be Jack London's cabin and the familiar hordes of German tourists and some colorful locals. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rbv8IYVIvpc/UhKbgdkKQHI/AAAAAAAACOo/c_yZJNUGq3c/s1600/IMG_4314.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rbv8IYVIvpc/UhKbgdkKQHI/AAAAAAAACOo/c_yZJNUGq3c/s320/IMG_4314.JPG" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fb_M0dF2Eww/UhKbbeNhJNI/AAAAAAAACOg/sT8LmAToDX8/s1600/IMG_4320.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fb_M0dF2Eww/UhKbbeNhJNI/AAAAAAAACOg/sT8LmAToDX8/s320/IMG_4320.JPG" /></a><br />
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Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-17506487510367458862013-08-05T19:20:00.002-07:002013-08-05T20:11:51.940-07:00Going Deeper Into the Wild!We left Anchorage and headed up the Glenn Highway towards Glennallen and then down to Valdez. The scenery was spectacular and the pavement rough. This whole area is bear city! The biggest grizzlies in Alaska live in this area. We campedat a rustic spot that made us glad we brought head-nets for the mosquitoes. We stopped at the headquarters for the Wrangell - St. Elias National Park, which is the largest (and one of the least visited) U.S. National Parks and did a short nature hike. Valdez was obliterated in the Alaskan earthquake of 1964, but has been rebuilt into a compact little community which looks like it is struggling for survival. This is the terminus of the Alaskan Pipeline and it looks like they and the Peter Pan cannery are the main employers. Bears are constantly seen in and around the town. Apparently, the main reason anyone comes here is for the fishing. We watched guys snagging red salmon on each cast. The fish were thick in the water. We saw a couple of happy sea lions as well. Everywhere were public fish cleaning stations and people, including Japanese tourists were processing some huge salmon and halibuts. Tomorrow we are heading north to the town of Chicken, Alaska where we will take the dirt road into the Yukon and leave the US territory behind. We plan to continue to Dawson City and follow the old gold rush trail on back roads, including a ferry across the Yukon river and eventually get to the Northwest Territory of Canada. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G2Trwbb62Z0/UgBmRVTFkfI/AAAAAAAACIs/ZcZ3KbXU3nw/s1600/IMG_4308.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G2Trwbb62Z0/UgBmRVTFkfI/AAAAAAAACIs/ZcZ3KbXU3nw/s320/IMG_4308.JPG" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZPLpG--Jquo/UgBmRULQ5NI/AAAAAAAACIw/XwxL20ch-YE/s1600/IMG_4302.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZPLpG--Jquo/UgBmRULQ5NI/AAAAAAAACIw/XwxL20ch-YE/s320/IMG_4302.JPG" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KuxqrJGVXIM/UgBmC28xiYI/AAAAAAAACIQ/eR81GZ9wyCw/s1600/DSCN4558.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KuxqrJGVXIM/UgBmC28xiYI/AAAAAAAACIQ/eR81GZ9wyCw/s320/DSCN4558.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zhjKf3Q83Eg/UgBmIbZGMHI/AAAAAAAACIg/--iCFmMofCE/s1600/DSCN4563.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zhjKf3Q83Eg/UgBmIbZGMHI/AAAAAAAACIg/--iCFmMofCE/s320/DSCN4563.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X-XEa1n4ISg/UgBl6M0FUCI/AAAAAAAACII/agU87jx6jFk/s1600/IMG_4298.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X-XEa1n4ISg/UgBl6M0FUCI/AAAAAAAACII/agU87jx6jFk/s320/IMG_4298.JPG" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QTSUOIsmcG8/UgBmHVzIL0I/AAAAAAAACIY/fTKlYSu6qhw/s1600/IMG_4301.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QTSUOIsmcG8/UgBmHVzIL0I/AAAAAAAACIY/fTKlYSu6qhw/s320/IMG_4301.JPG" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nmnviXD7msE/UgBlPTtbDGI/AAAAAAAACIA/T2JMJGtAZv8/s1600/DSCN4554.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nmnviXD7msE/UgBlPTtbDGI/AAAAAAAACIA/T2JMJGtAZv8/s320/DSCN4554.jpg" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wgkB8z1gvfc/UgBlLH2ASFI/AAAAAAAACH4/CZsms0Cj920/s1600/DSCN4553.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wgkB8z1gvfc/UgBlLH2ASFI/AAAAAAAACH4/CZsms0Cj920/s320/DSCN4553.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--_Z2K7m0sU8/UgBk6Z8_i1I/AAAAAAAACHs/wMtj_ot27p4/s1600/DSCN4551.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--_Z2K7m0sU8/UgBk6Z8_i1I/AAAAAAAACHs/wMtj_ot27p4/s320/DSCN4551.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9FCztJL9re4/UgBk6lx2QaI/AAAAAAAACHw/rWwzSiRW4I8/s1600/DSCN4550.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9FCztJL9re4/UgBk6lx2QaI/AAAAAAAACHw/rWwzSiRW4I8/s320/DSCN4550.jpg" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GWBR3L9J5pc/UgBk1Jg9AzI/AAAAAAAACHg/yMoMMPP-MPw/s1600/DSCN4546.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GWBR3L9J5pc/UgBk1Jg9AzI/AAAAAAAACHg/yMoMMPP-MPw/s320/DSCN4546.jpg" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ob-pO3UBeT4/UgBjbSKzyoI/AAAAAAAACG0/pb4VF1mKov8/s1600/DSCN4523.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ob-pO3UBeT4/UgBjbSKzyoI/AAAAAAAACG0/pb4VF1mKov8/s320/DSCN4523.jpg" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KI5D_fnRc-Q/UgBjcfoDpgI/AAAAAAAACG8/12DrYB281-o/s1600/DSCN4514.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KI5D_fnRc-Q/UgBjcfoDpgI/AAAAAAAACG8/12DrYB281-o/s320/DSCN4514.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-veZhohnFwkE/UgBkMlyHigI/AAAAAAAACHU/ImrMXkj6_58/s1600/DSCN4541.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-veZhohnFwkE/UgBkMlyHigI/AAAAAAAACHU/ImrMXkj6_58/s320/DSCN4541.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JsfYY2BtDQc/UgBkM6QgYXI/AAAAAAAACHQ/V9-vUkESugc/s1600/DSCN4534.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JsfYY2BtDQc/UgBkM6QgYXI/AAAAAAAACHQ/V9-vUkESugc/s320/DSCN4534.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4RksLCLsTbs/UgBiVWru9NI/AAAAAAAACGk/CPbkP9H12IY/s1600/DSCN4507.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4RksLCLsTbs/UgBiVWru9NI/AAAAAAAACGk/CPbkP9H12IY/s320/DSCN4507.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wwMPLXO84Tw/UgBj_YyyIII/AAAAAAAACHE/ZCDoIEYIEAI/s1600/DSCN4532.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wwMPLXO84Tw/UgBj_YyyIII/AAAAAAAACHE/ZCDoIEYIEAI/s320/DSCN4532.jpg" /></a> Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-25755144009940133142013-08-01T19:35:00.002-07:002013-08-03T19:49:15.445-07:00More Denali Pics! Then on to the Kenai Peninsula.We left Denali National Park happy that we were among the twenty percent of summer tourists who actually get to see the peak since it is usually obscured by clouds. On the way south to Anchorage, we were able to view the peak in several other areas along the way. We stayed in a rustic campground outside of Wasilla. Wasilla is considered ( even among Alaskans) to be the redneck capital of Alaska – which is going some. It is actually a suburb of Anchorage and consists of a long strip of fast food, pawn shops, Walmarts (two of them) and really nothing worth stopping for. We beat it straight down to Seward. This is a small fishing town with no place to buy fresh fish! Everywhere we have ever been on any coast, we have be able to buy fresh fish. Here it is all flash frozen at sea and shipped somewhere. We finally figured out that Alaskans never buy fish since they all catch it themselves or are given a freezer full by their friends or relatives. It is a beautiful locale surrounded by snow capped mountains. We ventured up to the Exit Glacier in the Kenai Fjords National Park. The park service has put signs up the road and trail to the glacier with the date that the glacier was in that place. It lets you see how far the glacier has receded over the last 200 years. It has receded over a mile just in the last few years. This reminded us of our trip to Glacier National Park which had over 60 named glaciers less than 100 years ago and now has only 15. We continued on to Kenai which like everywhere on the peninsula is all about fishing. The Kenai River and Lake was packed with anglers. The campgrounds were packed and fly fisherman stood shoulder to shoulder in the streams. We spent the night in a little campsite near Ninilchik where upon parking the camper, I immediately saw a cow moose with twin calves. I took some photographs but I did not want to get too close since a cow with her young is considered to be even more dangerous than the bears. Nearby, we stopped at the Russian Orthodox church at Ninilchik, the second Russian church we saw. We dropped all the way down the peninsula to Homer. This is a funky town with a five mile long gravel “spit” that pokes out into the Cook Inlet. We camped at a municipal campground on the spit right on the beach. Again, we were surrounded by stunning mountain vistas and watched the fishing boats and float planes heading out to the more remote areas. We learned that the generic name for "beer" up here is "pull tabs" !? Today we drove back to Anchorage. I took the camper off of the truck so that I could get the local Ford dealer to do an oil change. We seem to have pretty good internet here and will spend a few days her visiting some museums and other attractions. After that we are heading east over the Glenn Highway to the town of Chicken, Alaska where we will take the back dirt road into the Yukon and leave the US Territory behind. 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Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-41983827914335760722013-07-27T20:54:00.000-07:002013-08-03T19:51:51.412-07:00Fairbanks and Denali National Park!<br />
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We hit Fairbanks and checked into the River's Edge RV Park. It was right on the Chena River in the downtown. After doing the laundry, we had a gourmet dinner at their restaurant on a deck next to the river – salmon and halibut! We visited a museum and stocked up for our trip to Denali.<br />
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We reserved four nights in the campground at Denali National Park. This is the second largest national park at 6 million acres of area. (The seven largest national parks are all in Alaska). The next morning it was cold and raining when we took the road into the interior. We traveled 90 miles into the park. The round trip took eleven hours. We immediately saw wildlife – two cow moose near the road. All in all, despite the bad weather, we saw six moose, including two bulls, about two dozen caribou, five grizzly bears, a porcupine and an arctic ground squirrels and ptarmigan. <br />
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The weather was too cloudy to see Mt. McKinley ( only about 20 percent of the park visitors actually get to see the mountain since it is often obscured by clouds). The next day, the sun was shining as we drove back into the park and it was we were lucky to see the mountain and take some pics. It is an amazing sight since most of the surrounding peaks are about 5 to 7 thousand feet high, but McKinley is over 20 thousand feet high! After seeing the peak, I panned the the telescope around to some of the lower ridges and we saw a group of eight Dall Sheep on a high meadow. I tried to photograph them, but they were at least three miles away. So we saw four of the Big Five in Denali, moose, caribou, bears and mountain sheep. We did not see any wolves, but we attended an excellent ranger program about them. <br />
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We also watched a sled dog demonstration that was very interesting. I couldn't believe how fast the dogs pulled the sled and it was on dry land! We hiked some of the trails leading out of the campground and enjoyed the improving weather.<br />
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Tomorrow, we will head south towards Anchorage. We plan to stop at Wasilla ( maybe Sara Palin has room in her driveway for us, otherwise we plan to camp at one of the nearby lakes and take the truck in for an oil change ( we've gone 6,000 miles so far). After that, we will continue south to the Kenai Peninsula.<br />
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Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-32299664738128229842013-07-22T15:22:00.000-07:002013-07-23T16:35:31.780-07:00We're in Alaska!We left Prince George and made our way west on the Yellowhead Highway passing through the town of Smithers, British Columbia. We turned north on the Cassiar Highway and spent the night at a rustic campground at a beautiful lake where we had our first encounter with the voracious mosquitoes of these parts. This road as a reputation for being narrow with long drop offs and no shoulders. Our rig handled it with no problems. We got a pic of a small bear foraging on the side of the road. We passed through Jade City, which is a family run jade mine and store. We were amazed to learn that 92 percent of the world's jade is produced in this area. We entered the Yukon Territory and camped at the junction of the Cassiar and the Alaskan Highways. We met a young Swiss couple that were riding bicycles from Columbia, South America all the way to Anchorage! We saw dozens of bicyclists loaded with packs on the Cassiar and Alaskan roads. The road from Whitehorse, capital of the Yukon, is good pavement with some short gravel sections until the last 80 miles or so, where there was a lot of frost upheavals, long gravel sections and construction waits. We camped at Destruction Bay on Kluane Lake, the largest lake in the Yukon and there were warning signs about grizzly bears. The weather which had been nice for most of the trip turned very bleak with temps in the forties and cold rain. The lonely campsite was rather spooky and with the rain and bears and all we decided to stay in the camper and watch a (creepy) movie. We finally made Alaska yesterday and camped at Moon Lake in a rustic deserted campground and rolled on into Fairbanks today. After all of the rough camping, we are set up in a very nice RV park next to the Chena River practically in downtown Fairbanks. I finally have good WiFi, we are charging the camper batteries and Debbie is doing the laundry. Tomorrow we will hit a grocery store, top off our water and diesel tanks and head for Denali National Park for at least a four day stay. I am hoping to finally do some good hiking and biking. <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DOi95eSPuOc/Ue20ad_4HyI/AAAAAAAABvU/TeAOou_0S78/s1600/DSCN4270.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DOi95eSPuOc/Ue20ad_4HyI/AAAAAAAABvU/TeAOou_0S78/s320/DSCN4270.jpg" /></a><br />
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Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-88781096540917417752013-07-15T18:36:00.001-07:002013-08-03T19:57:20.894-07:00We're In Canada!It's been a while since we updated this blog since we have had very bad luck finding WiFi that will upload pictures. We're in a nice campground in Prince George, British Columbia that seems to have reasonable internet so I will continue ou report. After a few days in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming, we finally landed in Great Falls Montana. We visited the Lewis and Clark museum which was one of the best ones that we have seen. We went straight north to the Alberta border and spent the night at a roadside rustic campground southwest of Calgary where we met a family that was stranded because they had hit a deer on the highway and destroyed their radiator. Running into wildlife is no joke especially in a remote area where there is no cell service. The next day we went north on a remote road to Banff National Park. This park was amazingly crowded with Japanese, Germans and ever other nationality. We stayed at Johnson's Creek campground and hiked up to two waterfalls. We visited the famous Lake Louise which was picturesque ,but actual not nearly as large as I had imagined. I was picturing a lake more like Jenny Lake in the Tetons. We then proceeded up the Icefield Parkway towards Jasper National Park. This is an amazing scenic drive. You are completely surrounded by stunning mountain peaks and glaciers. We stopped twice to view bears on the side of the road. The wildflowers were also very evident. We stayed at the Wapiti (elk) campground in Jasper. After setting up camp we were visited by a big group of elk cows with several fawns. It's funny,but an elk fawn is bigger than a full grown North Carolina whitetail deer. We keep a careful eye out on the highway, because hitting an elk or a moose will total your car or worse! Tonight we are in Prince George, British Columbia. Tomorrow we are heading further west on route 16 and then we are taking the very remote and rough Cassiar Highway up to join the Alaskan Highway up in the Yukon. Tonight I am fixing a chicken wire gravel guard to the front of my truck. The next two weeks or so will be in very remote territory and we may be out of contact for awhile due to the lack of WiFi. <br />
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Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-49376478186445425572013-07-08T14:48:00.000-07:002013-07-15T16:28:45.454-07:00Our 2013 trip to Alaska and Western Canada.We left Raleigh on our longest and most ambitious trip yet on July 26th. We took four days to get to Boulder, Colorado, Bill's old home town. We spent several days visiting with family and old friends before heading north to Wyoming. We spent the four days of the Fourth of July holiday weekend at Curt Gowdy State Park near Cheyenne. This park has some of the best mountain bike trails that Bill has ever seen and he got to ride about half of them before his bike suffered fatal brake failure. The rest of the stay was spent hiking the trails and relaxing in our not so private (or quiet) campsite. The space to our left was occupied by thirteen people, 4 dogs and nine cars. The space on the left was another fifteen people multiple dogs and yes, as you can see from the photo, they even brought their washer and dryer! <br />
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I am also showing you was a bag of chips, bought at 400 feet above sea level looks like at 8,000 feet!<br />
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We dropped Bill's bike off in Cheyenne for repair and went to the Vedauwoos National Forestry campground which is know for it's high quality rock climbing. We took a short stroll on the Turtle Rock Trail and almost immediately encountered two cow moose on the trail. Moose have been recently reintroduced in this area after having been wiped out by the early settlers. From here we will continue north and stay somewhere in the Big Horn Mountains.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-79591657870485913182011-10-16T15:41:00.000-07:002011-10-16T15:45:23.190-07:00Back Home in North Carolina.<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JfdoDtecjW8/Tptd2p5dYGI/AAAAAAAABZU/ZeEbYULD0oY/s1600/image_map.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 143px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JfdoDtecjW8/Tptd2p5dYGI/AAAAAAAABZU/ZeEbYULD0oY/s320/image_map.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664224149889704034" /></a><br /><br /><br />We made it back. 7,000 miles and about 40 days. We had great weather except for the first few and last few days of the trip when it rained. It was great haveing unseasonally warm weather in Yellowstone since it often is snowing by this time. We have a lot more photos and will add some more of them.Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-86555338217061752052011-10-08T06:20:00.000-07:002011-10-08T07:41:52.189-07:00Devil's Tower, Caves, Badlands and Nuclear Missiles<div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a1Kn_52MXvE/TpBYR9jbqGI/AAAAAAAABXQ/N-KxMHqVug8/s1600/DSCN3283.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661121797208909922" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a1Kn_52MXvE/TpBYR9jbqGI/AAAAAAAABXQ/N-KxMHqVug8/s320/DSCN3283.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WA9aAf2W2Kc/TpBYSf6W1jI/AAAAAAAABXY/qBfbtGn_zh8/s1600/DSCN3284.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661121806431868466" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WA9aAf2W2Kc/TpBYSf6W1jI/AAAAAAAABXY/qBfbtGn_zh8/s320/DSCN3284.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Km_y4N4CWS4/TpBYTM20BMI/AAAAAAAABXg/jvDZFXCV8zA/s1600/DSCN3287.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; 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WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661112162127344034" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PjEjBAuwABo/TpBPhIE-caI/AAAAAAAABTY/T2XB-t-bXDY/s320/DSCN3051.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JVm6ORAhiLw/TpBPgnlS_rI/AAAAAAAABTQ/tZaXZ4uM0tc/s1600/DSCN3042.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661112153404538546" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JVm6ORAhiLw/TpBPgnlS_rI/AAAAAAAABTQ/tZaXZ4uM0tc/s320/DSCN3042.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ly97EbrcnY8/TpBYTtnlRcI/AAAAAAAABXo/1Dq1e7LKKpg/s1600/IMG_3880.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661121827291088322" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ly97EbrcnY8/TpBYTtnlRcI/AAAAAAAABXo/1Dq1e7LKKpg/s320/IMG_3880.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gNGuUdLaksk/TpBPdxspl2I/AAAAAAAABTI/8pl4fWCP-9Q/s1600/DSCN3040.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661112104580126562" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gNGuUdLaksk/TpBPdxspl2I/AAAAAAAABTI/8pl4fWCP-9Q/s320/DSCN3040.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q0VlHdCGI-Q/TpBPdAgfaVI/AAAAAAAABTA/nK6I-RNKnCw/s1600/DSCN3036.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661112091375790418" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q0VlHdCGI-Q/TpBPdAgfaVI/AAAAAAAABTA/nK6I-RNKnCw/s320/DSCN3036.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4IPfoYeqgW0/TpBPcndb_aI/AAAAAAAABS4/bbjlVGkF3mg/s1600/DSCN3025.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661112084652096930" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4IPfoYeqgW0/TpBPcndb_aI/AAAAAAAABS4/bbjlVGkF3mg/s320/DSCN3025.jpg" /></a><br />We drove across Wyoming to the mysterious Devil's Tower. We watched several climbing parties working up its vertical cracks. We went into South Dakota and did tours of Jewel and Wind Caves. Custer State Park was nice and Bill climbed Mt. Harney, the highest point in the state and the highest point east of the Rocky Mountains. We continued on into the Badlands National Park. The landscape is beautiful in a weird otherworldly way and we did some backcountry hikes and camped in the remote Sage Creek Campground which featured buffaloes wandering through it.<br />As we left the park, we stopped at the National Minuteman missle museum and signed up for a tour of one of the underground command centers which has been decommissioned. </div></div>Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-23338520504553589932011-10-01T15:18:00.000-07:002011-10-01T16:40:43.022-07:00Yellowstone National Park<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-25o-lPipBDw/Toeb39V0egI/AAAAAAAABSg/5BS_xTZx2Po/s1600/IMG_3874.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-25o-lPipBDw/Toeb39V0egI/AAAAAAAABSg/5BS_xTZx2Po/s320/IMG_3874.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658662842475510274" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G1sdSh3ssCA/Toeb3muVLhI/AAAAAAAABSY/6N1VrzcCT00/s1600/IMG_3873.JPG"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HLoX8gqVQ5U/ToeYirMvSiI/AAAAAAAABMw/zWQCxOm53LQ/s320/DSCN2682.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658659178293447202" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p3WlAt7aHq0/ToeYiRNoNpI/AAAAAAAABMo/Rv4s6FFSrPE/s1600/DSCN2675.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p3WlAt7aHq0/ToeYiRNoNpI/AAAAAAAABMo/Rv4s6FFSrPE/s320/DSCN2675.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658659171317855890" /></a><br /><br />We spent four whole days in Yellowstone. We saw every geyser and geothermal feature that you can see near the road. We were pretty lucky to see a lot of wildlife including bison, elk, mountain goats and - a really rare and big treat, grey wolves. Bill visited the barracks that he lived in when he worked in the park in 1970. He also road his bike up Mount Washburn, which turned out to be a lot longer and steeper than he had anticipated. The animals, waterfalls, geysers, mountains, natural bridges, Yellowstone Lake (one of the largest high altitude lakes in the country) and great vistas really make this a special place. Only a few of the campgrounds were still open. The weather was perfect - 70's in the daytime and around 30 at night. This is one of the most visited national parks, but it is a lot less crowded than during the summer.<br />We are now in Cody Wyoming and are headed for Devil's Tower and then the Badlands National Park in South Dakota.Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-35632327824152430372011-10-01T14:46:00.001-07:002013-06-20T15:13:56.949-07:00Crators of the Moon and Tetons National Park<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-076FJB8yOt8/ToekCyevGdI/AAAAAAAABSw/pV-mwPGNAc0/s1600/DSCN2664.jpg"><img dXHQw6KksvI/ToegQafc9cI/AAAAAAAABSo/MstS79NKw4I/s1600/DSCN2663.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dXHQw6KksvI/ToegQafc9cI/AAAAAAAABSo/MstS79NKw4I/s320/DSCN2663.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658667660663911874" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D45AafzOHbQ/ToeRYIFHjYI/AAAAAAAABMg/D_FHPXlriYQ/s1600/DSCN2642.jpg"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TkJwUciZBN4/ToeNCj_DuKI/AAAAAAAABJ4/5ik70B3YswA/s320/DSCN2524.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658646531973298338" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o15D-Gg2cgQ/ToeKtpgGLeI/AAAAAAAABJw/kopWFjXvtH8/s1600/DSCN2519.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o15D-Gg2cgQ/ToeKtpgGLeI/AAAAAAAABJw/kopWFjXvtH8/s320/DSCN2519.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658643973653540322" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XXr8uBt67vY/ToeKthsPv5I/AAAAAAAABJo/M4o784mpWCk/s1600/DSCN2504.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XXr8uBt67vY/ToeKthsPv5I/AAAAAAAABJo/M4o784mpWCk/s320/DSCN2504.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658643971557015442" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q_fHKbZ9txY/ToeKtOGoG2I/AAAAAAAABJg/pfAfdwBi-bE/s1600/DSCN2501.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q_fHKbZ9txY/ToeKtOGoG2I/AAAAAAAABJg/pfAfdwBi-bE/s320/DSCN2501.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658643966298954594" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qUMyeko4J0I/ToeKsqKWM8I/AAAAAAAABJY/z0VHMaTJl6A/s1600/DSCN2496.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qUMyeko4J0I/ToeKsqKWM8I/AAAAAAAABJY/z0VHMaTJl6A/s320/DSCN2496.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658643956650881986" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3wdtjQnGJCI/ToeKsrXqJAI/AAAAAAAABJQ/8e_7EyuCbrg/s1600/DSCN2494.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3wdtjQnGJCI/ToeKsrXqJAI/AAAAAAAABJQ/8e_7EyuCbrg/s320/DSCN2494.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658643956975150082" /></a><br />Here are some shots at Crators of the Moon National Park in Idaho and some from our hike in the Tetons. I saw my first moose in the U.S. It was a bull, just off the Cascade Canyon trail out of Jenny Lake. Just south of Yellowstone, we foung a great free National Forest Service campground and I found out about a natural hotspring not far away. The spring was totally remote and so we could not resist a soak "au naturel".Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-83659120668505272302011-09-22T16:00:00.000-07:002011-10-01T16:31:40.851-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VZM4pcgBmfM/TnyNNcP7UtI/AAAAAAAABJI/MLzPgCI0HRE/s1600/IMG_3757_edited-1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VZM4pcgBmfM/TnyNNcP7UtI/AAAAAAAABJI/MLzPgCI0HRE/s320/IMG_3757_edited-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655550494131311314" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-30eo3xS2-rU/TnyNM0dL0gI/AAAAAAAABJA/V42C5P1QYJY/s1600/IMG_3739.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-30eo3xS2-rU/TnyNM0dL0gI/AAAAAAAABJA/V42C5P1QYJY/s320/IMG_3739.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655550483449500162" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j3uxpohcDXY/TnyNMwvi2II/AAAAAAAABI4/Lag3aJwcrBk/s1600/IMG_3725.JPG"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nMqKkNNqI-M/TnyGI_ip0wI/AAAAAAAABHY/D3BT4TLYkrY/s320/DSCN2428.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655542721124356866" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U8pxn-mrypM/TnvAxuWrlJI/AAAAAAAABHQ/uT8F9Ri2zVI/s1600/DSCN2422.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U8pxn-mrypM/TnvAxuWrlJI/AAAAAAAABHQ/uT8F9Ri2zVI/s320/DSCN2422.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655325717583074450" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7BYjpRY4uSc/TnvAxVQ9rMI/AAAAAAAABHI/P_OVNxgoCys/s1600/DSCN2419.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7BYjpRY4uSc/TnvAxVQ9rMI/AAAAAAAABHI/P_OVNxgoCys/s320/DSCN2419.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655325710848208066" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yYlPRN1Cwug/TnvAxZhFz_I/AAAAAAAABHA/zOe-mhzOMbk/s1600/DSCN2396.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yYlPRN1Cwug/TnvAxZhFz_I/AAAAAAAABHA/zOe-mhzOMbk/s320/DSCN2396.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655325711989592050" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zC8HSiZoBlw/TnvAxFhAdTI/AAAAAAAABG4/3x-wG6xWi7g/s1600/DSCN2387.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zC8HSiZoBlw/TnvAxFhAdTI/AAAAAAAABG4/3x-wG6xWi7g/s320/DSCN2387.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655325706620532018" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z-DZveiQfzQ/TnvAwnaSvBI/AAAAAAAABGw/qiE3Oh8Gd1E/s1600/DSCN2386.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z-DZveiQfzQ/TnvAwnaSvBI/AAAAAAAABGw/qiE3Oh8Gd1E/s320/DSCN2386.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655325698539306002" /></a><br />We spent four great days in Glacier National Park. The weather was very cold, windy and rainy. We still did some great hikes up to some alpine lakes. The Many Glaciers area was supposedly the place to see grizzlies and we did! On a hike to Red Rock lake we saw a mother with two cubs on the other side of the valley. We were not close enough to get a photo, but we got a pic of a black bear the next day foraging on the side of the road. On the last day, the weather broke and we went from daily highs of 43 degrees to 75 degrees. The night time temps are still in the low 30's though. After Glacier we camped in a remote Forest Service campground that we had all to ourselves.Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2831586963881549747.post-5129483958997040972011-09-16T14:35:00.000-07:002011-09-16T14:51:38.977-07:00Out West Again!<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n2sWLojUbYQ/TnPEwkK32wI/AAAAAAAABGo/6qLWm8x7Apo/s1600/IMG_3696.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653078295902149378" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n2sWLojUbYQ/TnPEwkK32wI/AAAAAAAABGo/6qLWm8x7Apo/s320/IMG_3696.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rr2qHWJGyNY/TnPEwarePKI/AAAAAAAABGg/bR7NZgAr3II/s1600/IMG_3686.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653078293354527906" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rr2qHWJGyNY/TnPEwarePKI/AAAAAAAABGg/bR7NZgAr3II/s320/IMG_3686.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OHUfOq_jG5Q/TnPEv-XS9lI/AAAAAAAABGY/m0rDeQp3q9Q/s1600/DSCN2372.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653078285753710162" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OHUfOq_jG5Q/TnPEv-XS9lI/AAAAAAAABGY/m0rDeQp3q9Q/s320/DSCN2372.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>When you see miles of sage brush and a BIG sky, you know that you are in the West again. After a frosty night near Minot, North Dakota, we camped next to the Peck Lake in Eastern Montana. This is one of the largest man made lakes in the U.S. and we were completely alone in the rustic, free campground. Tomorrow we head to Glacier National Park.</div></div></div>Bill and Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068596881443027292noreply@blogger.com0