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We're in a high altitude desert. Sagebrush sprinkled across a red landscape here in the Colorado Plateau. Small towns are occasionally found along this stretch of US-40 but the population is so sparse that we've not had cell service for hours. We've gotten so...
It's starting to rain! We've been on the road for nearly eight weeks and neither of us can remember the last rain we saw. Everywhere the talk is of the drought and wildfires. We stopped at a pull off to gaze out over Strawberry Reservoir and not only could we see rain...
We've both visited the Great Salt Lake. Steve remembers swimming here when his family toured The West in their brand new '56 Chevy sedan and Karen trekked through the snow to gaze at this salty lake when her family came here to visit family at Christmas '65 in their...
We don't need to be anywhere until noon, so we took this morning to review the mail that we picked up yesterday and do some housekeeping in the cab of the truck and the trailer. This Salt Lake City KOA site is the sunniest in the whole park in the afternoon so we...
We realized this morning that Gigi, our little gypsy wagon needed new shoes. Generally tires that size need to be ordered. We were wondering where we'd find a place that could get them in tomorrow and we could camp nearby. We were in luck! We stopped at Beard Tire...
Park Service Introduction Video Zion defies description. We were told it was very different from Bryce Canyon and that is so very true. Besides the fact that you get to view the canyon from below, the formations are so huge! There's so much here! And we have so little...
Kodachrome Basin State Park was named by members of a 1948 National Geographic expedition for the then new a revolutionary color photographic film, this is an amazing place. There are colorful sandstone formations in every direction. It was a gorgeous last stop on a...
Driving west on Utah's Scenic Byway 12, one of the most spectacular stretches of road there is. The section between Escalante and Boulder is superlative. As you drive along a narrow ridge, the views on either side are breathtaking. You feel compelled to be continually...
We've been learning about the Ancient Puebloans in bits and pieces for many years. We've visited Meza Verde in '73 and '08. We visited Bandelier together in '05. Today at Utah's Anasazi State Park Museum we learned more about their culture, beliefs, and day to day life.
Just have to say that we welcomed the sight of this watering hole near Boulder, Utah. Stopped in for pie and coffee then decided to order the Iceberg Wedge Salad. It was way too good and filling. Never got to sample the pie.
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.