0000 – Trip odometer (re)set as we left home in Washington DC on a 2-1/2 week adventure.
0001 – Entered Maryland
0160 – Entered Pennsylvania
0254 – Entered West Virginia
0267 – Entered Ohio (obviously only crossed a very small part of WV!)
0500 – Entered Indiana
0650 – Entered Illinois
0805 – Entered Missouri
0927 – Stopped for the night in Columbia, MO.
1058 – Entered Kansas
1490 – Entered Colorado
1837 – Stopped at friend’s cabin in Creede, CO for 5 days.
Hummingbird mania off the back deck! Make sure you have your sound on – they were noisy!
2080 – 5 days and many good meals and bottles of wine later – Entered Utah
2177 – Visited Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah.
One of the Natural Bridges
Cliff dwellings visible near bottom left side.
2311 – Visited Capitol Reef National Park in Utah.
From the park service brochure: ” capitol for the white domes of Navajo Sandstone that resemble capitol building domes, and reef for the rocky cliffs which are a barrier to travel, like a coral reef.”
Notice the car on the road in front of us to get a size perspective of this area.
Petroglyphs on the cliff walls
Panorama
Fruit orchards which the Mormons planted in the 1800s and the National Park Service now maintain. Pies available at the park store!
2683 – Entered Idaho
2835 – visited Craters of the Moon National Monument. This is a huge area of cinder cones and lava rock which flowed as recently at 2000 years ago.
Lava
“Splatter” cone
And more lava! As far as you could see.
3055 – Entered Montana – where we spent 5 days opening and repairing our family “retreat”.
3318 – Visited Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
Me – among the geysers
Hot pot
This elk walked right by our car and didn’t pay any attention to my talking to it.
Bison were everywhere! Including the road.
Lots of bison babies too!
3710 – Back in Montana
Group of Elk
Beautiful Sunset
Bald Eagle
4170 – Entered N. Dakota
4625 – Entered Minnesota
4790 – Entered Wisconsin
5080 – Entered Illinois – where we visited with family.
Lindsey shows off her quilt – which she just finished binding.
5213 – Entered Indiana
5366 – Entered Ohio
5615 – Entered Pennsylvania
5803 – Entered Maryland
5893 – Home in DC. Whew! What a trip. Almost 6000 miles.
(And my husband and I are still talking to one another!)
