Woke up to 33 degrees outside this morning and it felt good but we did use the fireplace during breakfast. After a hot shower we drove across more of Wyoming and then headed south to Craig and then east to Steamboat. The trip was much flatter than expected. There were antelope everywhere until
Trip Log
September 10, 2007
We drove through the rolling expanse of Wyoming with the Colorado mountains off in the distance. We drove through canyons and badlands. We are now at the Rock Springs KOA. Spoke to Kate today and will call her when we get into Steamboat Springs tomorrow. She should have some time tomorrow eve
September 10, 2007
We left Wells early today because we were traveling so far and were going to lose an hour as we moved into mountain time. We traveled through the mountains of eastern Nevada and all of a sudden it opened up into the salt flats. The last time we passed through here with Mike & Jeff, there wa
September 8, 2007
We hopped on I-80 and drove through 175 miles of the Great Basin. Mile after mile of large dried lake beds. We are now in Winnemucca (Say it!). We are at the same campground we stopped at over 20 years ago with Mike & Jeff when it was a KOA. It is pretty calm today but back then it was so
September 7, 2007
We crossed the mountains again today but the road wasn't as steep or winding. There was a haze all day due to the wildfires near Susanville and it got worse as we got closer. We couldn't get a good picture of Mount Shasta or of Mount Lassen when we stopped at the volcanic park. Mt.
September 6, 2007
We went down the coast and turned East which made Alesa's day. We came across route 299 to Redding. It was a beautiful trip but had a lot of ups and downs and sharp turns. We were on the North bank of the Trinity river most of the time which meant Alesa was looking over cliffs; not good! We d
September 5, 2007
We have a lot of tree pictures. They were truly unbelievable, you just can't get used to the scale of the trees. I think we have lost the autofocus on the camera, so I hope the pictures stay in focus. Anyway, "You can't depend on your eyes, when your imagination is out of focus".
September 4, 2007
We are on the Pacific coast in Northern California at the Klamath River RV park. We are right on the river less than a mile from the ocean. Most of the campers are here for the Chinook salmon fishing. They started running the middle of last month but the fishing has not been very good because
September 3, 2007
While it is Labor Day it is a day of rest for us. We drove south on I-5 by Salem, Corvallis and Eugene and are 136 miles north of the California border. Passed over the 45th Parallel today which means we are now closer to the Equator than to the North Pole. We had crossed it northbound in Mich
September 2, 2007
We drove to Washington Park in Portland. There we visited the International Rose Test Garden and the Japanese Garden. Two beautiful places. We then drove the Oregon Scenic By-Way/Mt.