Left Baker City headed for Salt Lake City on I-84 driving through a lot of open country. Made a stop in Hagerman, Idaho to visit the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Park and learn about the evolution and extinction of the horse in North America. Unfortunately the fossil beds are not open to the public due to safety concerns related to mud slides. We did drive out into the park to see one of the remnants of the Oregon Trail ruts. In this area the trail was not later used as an automobile road so it still exists as a single rut trail. Also while we in Hagerman we spent some time in the Minedoka National Historic Site. It tells the tale of the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. After that interlude we hit the trail and arrived in Salt Lake City around 6PM and enjoyed a wonderful home cooked meal including homemade apple pie made with apples from Uncle Jack and Aunt Flo’s backyard.
Aboard the Norwegian Jewel we’ve made stops in Cozumel, Mexico and Georgetown, Grand Cayman to explore beyond our previous experiences here. Soon we’ll be making our way to ports we’ve not yet explored in the Southern Caribbean.
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
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