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.
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.”

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.
3055 – Entered Montana – where we spent 5 days opening and repairing our family “retreat”.
3318 – Visited Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
This elk walked right by our car and didn’t pay any attention to my talking to it.
Bison were everywhere! Including the road.
3710 – Back in Montana
4170 – Entered N. Dakota
4625 – Entered Minnesota
4790 – Entered Wisconsin
5080 – Entered Illinois – where we visited with family.
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!)