The 2008 season for wheeled vehicles in Yellowstone National Park started today. We drove from West Yellowstone, MT along the Madison River to the No…

We got our travel trailer settled into its temporary storage on Sunday the 13th. Monday the 14th was another beautiful day, with plenty of sunshine a…

Our stop for the night had a view, my what a view! The Tetons on the eastern horizon - over the potato fields of Idaho.

We had a little wet snow in Moab, UT overnight. It was pretty on the red rocks around town. We headed north into a headwind. The Uinta Mountans and t…

The prediction of snow for the higher elevations kept us in Moab, UT for another day. It did rain several times and the temps were in the 50s. We spe…

We spent the day hiking in Arches National Park looking at arches and other interesting geological formations. Compared to Grand Gulch, there were a …

We said goodby to Bluff, UT and headed north on US 191 (the same road that goes past Big Sky, MT) to Moab, UT. On the way we visited Edge of the Ceda…

It took a drive of 65 miles from Bluff, UT, but we hiked Collins Canyon two miles into Grand Gulch. We saw lots of interesting rock formations, …

We spent the day looking around Bluff, UT, after doing the laundry, and Jean cleaning the travel trailer. The laundromat is the best one we have ever…

Today we headed off on a hike of four miles to two sets of ruins in an area called Grand Gulch. The first well documented residents of this are&…

We headed east and north to our base for hiking the Grand Gulch. On the way we passed Glen Canyon Dam across the Colorado River to form Lake Powell a…

We loosed the bounds of casinos and headed east. We visited Pipe Spring National Monument. The springs have been used since 300 B.C. Mormons claimed …

A long desert drive from Death Valley into Nevada. Lots of wildflowers. Spent the night in the parking lot of a casino.

We made a spectacular discovery today - Mosaic Canyon. Just above Stovepipe Wells is a canyon that empties out into the desert. One half mile up into…

Lots of beautiful desert from Olancha in the Owens Valley to Furnace Creek, in Veath Valley. The desert is green with lots of wildflowers in the…

We traveled to the southern part of the Owens Valley, one of our favorite places in California. We are headed to Death Valley to do some hiking, on t…

We spent the day enjoying the company of the girls, Mary and Dave.

We returned to Wrightwood after finding a great vegatable stand with strawberries. Mary cooked up a delecious salmon/pasta dish. We found that the tr…

Tucked away at the end of a 14 mile long road is Jalama Beach County Park. A wonderful drive over emerald green hills, through oak groves, and then o…

We headed off to Santa Barbara to see the world's largest fig tree, the beach and the Santa Barbara Mission. We did not know that the missions along …

Aliyah and Kaya returned from their dad's, and we packed them and Mary into the truck and travel trailer and headed to the beach. We drove through be…

We worked with Mary and Dave to clean up their yard of winter debris. Dave took us all the Yodeler for beer and pizza. A great time was had by all.

We spent the morning with our realtor at the 19021 Panther Ave house. Everything is in good shape. Then we went to Wrightwood to see Mary and Dave's …

We made it to our old stomping grounds. Many of the joshua trees were in bloom - more than we have ever seen at once. It must have been a cold wet wi…

We are still headed south on I-15. We made stops at REI in Sandy, UT, and at IKEA in Draper, UT. The temperature is climbing as we head south. It was…

We spent the early part of this morning packing up our travel stuff and putting it in the back of the truck. We drove to the RV park where the t…

On Friday, we picked up our new travel trailer. It was an inauspicious start, as it was snowing pretty heavily here in Big Sky. But, the snow stopped…

Today may be the last day for Jean and I to downhill ski. Jean works tomorrow & we'll spend Friday going to Bozeman to pick up our new travel tra…