Monday, July 21, 2008

Jackson Hole, WY.











Helen and I took a road trip up to Jackson Hole July 16 to see what it was about. We expected it to be an old western town like Tombstone, AZ. but it was only a commercialized version of an old west town. Many of the old buildings were still there and a lot of western history but it was too commercial. We took a few pictures and will post two or three. Jackson Hole, WY. is mentioned many times in western books and movies.

On the way back to camp we were traveling along the Snake river and saw lots of folks whitewater rafting. We took some pictures and some videos but we are unable to post the videos for some reason. If you can give us any advice as to how to post them we would appreciate the help. We are having a blast and enjoying life on the road.

At the time of this posting we have moved to Garden City, Utah. We went on a road trip to Logan, Utah today through an awesome canyon call of all things, Logan Canyon. We took pictures but they just don't show what we see with our eye. We are camped beside Bear Lake, a lake formed by an earthquake 1000s of years ago. It covers 70,000 acres and is very beautiful. It has sandy beaches just like the ocean. The weather here is nice, in the 80s in the day and 60s at night. The one picture is of a man surffing on the river rapids. The arch that Helen is standing under is made of Elk antlers. There is an arch at each side of the square in Jackson Hole.

Friday, July 11, 2008

Wild animals from Yellowstone and Rushmore,











These are some of the animals that we have seen.


The Elk are at Mammoth Village just walking around not paying any attention to the people.


Grand Teton National Park





















This is one awesome range of mountains. We didn't see any animals on our trip around the Tetons, but we did see these Grand mountains. When we got to the other side there was a pass to go over that had 10% incline. That is too steep to pull a camper over, at least for me any way.


Helen took several pictures of some beautiful wild mountain flowers also, some are from Signal Mountain.

Yellowstone National Park








This is a video of Old Faithful and some pictures of other areas in Yellowstone National Park




Sunday, July 6, 2008

Crazy Horse Monument


This is Michael at Crazy Horse Mountain. This work has been in progress since the 1950s and will continue untill finished, about 100 more years.

Spearfish Canyon






















Spearfish Canyon is a very scenic drive with high canyon walls and three water falls. The canyon runs from Spearfish, SD. to Deadwood, SD. Deadwood is where Wild Bill Hickok was killed.

Devils Tower











Devil's Tower is too awesome to tell all about it, you must see to appreciate.




It is 867 ft. tall, the top is the size of a football field, and the base is 1000 ft. in diameter.

Rushmore


This is Helen at Mt. Rushmore