Adventures including Tour(s) of State Capitol(s)
Three stops in a week…Missouri-Kansas-Missouri We moved Northeast from central Oklahoma to central Missouri over the last week, taking a bit of a Zig-Zag route (including ), with 3 stops: Joplin, MO for 2 nights, Lawrence, KS (between Topeka & Kansas City) for 3 nights, and Columbia, MO (north of Read more…
Our First “Real” Visit to Oklahoma We drove through Oklahoma on I-40 in January 2013, with only one, short stop. So, it only barely “counted” as state visit a at all. That has been rectified! And…no more snow…actually above 70o every day! Although, we did have lightning last night, and Read more…
And Snow in Los Alamos! We had a little snow on our afternoon visit to Los Alamos, or should I say visits…the 20th and again yesterday, the 24th. So, we didn’t walk around as much as we might have, but we did visit the Manhattan Project NHP – Los Alamos Read more…
Lizzy Adventure Albums at: June 2-June 24, 2022 June 24-July 22, 2022 Overview We took our first long Lizzy Trip in 2+ years…50 days, mostly in the Rocky Mountains and High Plains (sleeping above 4,000′ for 35 nights….highest was ~7,165′ @ Laramie, WY) We originally called this trip “Loop thru The Rockies”. Read more…
Leaving Bonneville Salt Flats / Salt Lake City Arrived for one night in Wendover, UT/NV yesterday, and were delighted to find that we arrived at Historic Wendover Army Air Base in time for the once-a-day tour! It was once the largest airbase in the world and was part of the Read more…
After visiting Laramie & Cheyenne, Wyoming We arrived in Vernal, Utah yesterday, after 4 nights in Laramie, Wyoming, and a stopover in Craig, Colorado. In Laramie, we camped 1 mile from the Wyoming Territorial Prison Museum (the only prison to ever incarcerated Butch Cassidy…for stealing a horse). We went into Read more…
A week in the Colorado Rockies & Front Range! We stayed on the Big Thompson River (cover photo of the river right behind our campsite), just west of Loveland, 25 miles from Estes Park. We drove up Big Thompson River Canyon 3 days to explore Rocky Mountain National Park (#177…1st Read more…
Montana Travel Day! Just gotta say Montana is Beautiful! We have to come back for a longer visit, when we’re not on a sprint to Colorado. We will also have to re-visit northern Idaho, as well, where we had a lovely day visiting friends in Sagle…that’s Ruth, Fred, Mark, and Read more…
Lizzy Adventure Album at: February 21-March 17, 2020 Overview The second leg of Life with Lizzy 2020, was around Southern Arizona. We entered Arizona along I-8, coming from San Diego (end of the SoCal Coast Adventure) and stayed at 4 locations (of 6 originally planned stops): Gila Bend, short stop Read more…
Road Trip Album at: November 11-15, 2019 Overview We took Five Days on a road trip with The Beast, to drive home from Morgan Hill, CA, where we left Lizzy for a couple of months. We took off Monday to visit Bill-C & Judith in Palo Alto and spend our Read more…