Tag: Gracie
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On our way through Idaho
We are now on the last stretch of our trip before meeting up with our tour group for our Alaska / Canada adventure. It’s almost the end of May, and we’ve had some challenges booking campgrounds due to the upcoming Memorial Day holiday weekend. We finally have an itinerary, though, so we can get underway.…
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Salt Lake – City, and a Big Lake
We visited Salt Lake City for a few days on our way to Idaho. My idea was to experience a rehearsal of the Tabernacle Choir in its home space. It was also a good opportunity to clean-up and stock-up. We all got haircuts, even (especially) Gracie, made a few pilgrimages to Costco and Walmart (the…
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Southern Utah
We chose Panguitch as our home base for our time in Southern Utah. This is such a spectacular area with many options for camping. Panguitch is close to Utah’s Highway 12, which provides access to Red Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument, Kodachrome Basin, and Capitol Reef National Park, among other stunning…
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Lake Powell
Our next stop on our journey north and west – Lake Powell, an enormous reservoir filling Glen Canyon behind the Glen Canyon Dam. It’s the centerpiece, although certainly not the only feature, of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. We camped at Antelope Point RV Park for a planned two days. Down the hill from the…
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Monument Valley
After leaving the Painted Desert, we began our journey northward. Next stop: Monument Valley, a Navajo Tribal Park on the border of Arizona and Utah. This place is home to some spectacular rock formations, very different from Painted Desert. We stayed with Celia and Steven, a Navajo couple with a home just outside the Tribal…
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The Painted Desert
Here is the most aptly named area that we visited so far on this trip. Mother Nature brought her complete palette to the canvas when she put this part of the world together. Petrified Forest National Park is the best way to visit the most spectacular highlights of this vast area. It’s also the most…
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Santa Fe
Although we hadn’t originally planned to visit Santa Fe on this trip, I’m very glad we did! It’s a wonderful town set in a beautiful area, and I’ve always wanted to go there. Now that I’ve had a chance to sample it, I know I’ll enjoy going back to see more of it. And note…
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Meeting up with friends in Denver!
After an overnight stop in Colby, Kansas, we arrived in Denver on April 20. (We prefer to limit our trips to no more than 6 hours on the road in a day, and ideally a lot less. Without this stop we would have had more than 10 hours of travel.) On our way to meet…
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Meeting up with friends in Wichita!
So I have been looking forward to our next stop on this trip since we started out. We’re heading up the road a short ways, to Wichita, Kansas, to spend a few days with my childhood friend Isabel and her husband Bill. It’s been more than 30 years since we’ve seen each other in person.…
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Retracing old steps
Fifty years ago (!) I lived in northeastern Oklahoma for a few years. Since we were sort of in the neighborhood, having just experienced the eclipse in Atkins, Arkansas, I wanted to spend a few days visiting old haunts in the area. Our travels took us to Beaver Lake in the northwest corner of Arkansas,…
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