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When Linda and I visited Yellowstone two years ago Linda wanted to stay at
Old Faithful Lodge. She couldn't; no rooms available. Earlier
this year she found the 190SL Group had a block of rooms at the lodge and
immediately booked one. On August 27, 2009 we start our drive to
Yellowstone.
Click on an image below for a bit about the 190 SL. |
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Our first real stop is to be Austin, but that would be quite a one-day
drive, so we spend nights in Marianna and Lafayette.
We visit a Waffle House and see a Lunar Module at NASA's John C. Stennis
Space Center. Saturday we have a great TexMex lunch in Waller.. |
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In Austin we discover hotels indeed, have a thirteenth floor and
explore nightlife on sixth street. |
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Monday we head to the Panhandle. In Lubbock, dinner with Alicia and Pete Velde. |
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Driving North, we meet Mustang Cowally in Plainview, Texas, explore remains
of Route 66 and eat lunch at Lotaburger in Tucumcari, New Mexico. |
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Leaving the razor straight highways of New Mexico for the switchbacks of
Colorado, Linda shops for chiles just before we cross the Rio Grande at
Española. People tell us haze in the sky is from wild fires in
California. |
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Thursday is our day to look at rocks, starting in Colorado at Black Canyon
of the Gunnison National Park. Having spent the night in Montrose,
this was a short trip. |
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In Utah we see this panorama entering Arches National Park.
Hint: With most browsers the picture will be shown small;
click on it, then move the slider bar to see the entire scene. |
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They tell us there are 2000 Arches. Here are a few. |
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Friday we have breakfast in Moab then return to Arches for more rock shots. |
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Late afternoon Linda presents a stimulus package to the Moab quilt store
while I take pictures.
At the ranch we relax in our room on the Colorado, the river that built the
Grand Canyon. |
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Utah rocks. On advice of Park Expert Mrs. Kacer we visit Capitol Reef National Park,
named for domes resembling capitol buildings rising from the hundred-mile
long Waterpocket Fold. Thousand year-old petroglyphs are another
feature. |
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Heading to Price for the night, we pass through Hanksville. |
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Leaving Utah Sunday we pass an ice cream stand in Vernal. If anyone
identifies the flowers hanging on the lamppost, please let me know; they're
in pots all over town. We pass the 66 square mile Flaming Gorge
Reservoir sitting more than 6000 feet above sea level. Checking into
our room in Wyoming Linda noted a rainbow, harbinger of success for the
convention. |
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Nancy Reed, having been in the traveling business, says the flowers in
Vernal are Petunias, but further study shows they are Calibrachoa, known as
Million Bells and described as tiny Petunias on steroids.
Breakfast on Monday is in Worland, then museum visits in Cody. The
firearms exhibit is the largest I've ever seen. Tonight we meet Na Fe
and Vaan at the Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone. |
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