Ken and Karen’s travel adventures
Done with Arches, and knowing it would be another blistering hot day, we hit the road early. Next up was a drive to southwest Utah through Canyonlands National Park and Capitol Reef National Park. We figured we’d just do the scenic park drives and a couple of short hikes for overlooks in the parks, and take scenic roads from Moab to Bryce.
At Canyonlands, Mesa Arch was the highlight for us. Read more
With the weather forecasting over 105 degrees today, (WHAT?!) we got up early to do the Arches National Park. I really wanted to do the hike to the Delicate Arch, which is not a flat easy trail. So we headed out about 7am to Arches – just 5 miles up the road from Moab. It was already in the upper 70’s. I had hoped to do it at sunrise, but…. hmmm… Stark people are not morning people, so that didn’t happen. 🙂
At the beginning of the Delicate Arch trail was Read more
This was a long day of driving, but it was so scenic and everything we saw was amazingly diverse, so it kept us interested the whole time. We drove all non-interstate highways for about 500 miles, and it took us about 9 hours.
We left Jackson Hole, which is a beautiful little town. Read more
We started today from the West Yellowstone entrance. Our first stop was the Grand Prismatic Spring. This is hot water steaming on a cool morning, flowing from the spring into the river.
I had hoped to see the spring pool from a higher elevation on the Fairy Falls trail, but it was closed. 🙁 We couldn’t really see the pool of water, just the steam rising. Read more
Neither of us have ever been to Yellowstone, so we have a lot that we want to see! We took lots of pictures; this is just a few to share from Day one. Since we stayed in Gardiner, we entered the park at the North entrance. Mammoth Hot Springs was our first stop. There are some amazing formations here, as the earth spits and grows more and more all the time. Lots of calcium carbonate – walking around on earths very own Rolaids supply!
With Washington behind us, we realized that neither of us have been on the roads east of Coeur d’Alene since we were kids. Western Montana has scenery similar to Eastern Washington near the Cascades… only it goes for hundreds of miles! We found it to be rather pretty. We crossed the Continental Divide, so now the rivers that we see do not flow to the Pacific Ocean.
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Stopped in Butte Montana for lunch. Read more
First stop on our cross country trip was a stop in Spokane to see daughter Shannon. She treated me to a fun date with her friends… and wine and paint! While we followed instructions on how to paint our pictures, Kenny and Cam enjoyed sampling beer at Setter Brewing Company in Spokane Valley. Really a fun date!!
