Heartland Road Tour
The Grand Tetons have been ….. well, in a word, GRAND!
We’re heading out this morning and our destination is Yellowstone. It’s only a few miles away so it’ll be a short trip.
If you have wandering feet and have not been to the Grand Tetons, GO! It is an amazing place.
I stopped at the beach at Colter Village for one last look before heading north. Here is my parting shot.
Cheers.
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WOW!
Dog and I are at The Grand Tetons National Park. What a fantastic place. We’re staying at the Colter Campground. The campground, NOT the RV park with full hookups. :). Hey, the bathrooms have cold running water. It’s quite an upgrade from our recent camping areas. Cell (AT&T) coverage is poor at the campsite. How can I have 3 bars of 3G and not be able to access the Internet?
We got up early to catch some photos yesterday and today. Yesterday we went on to do the 50+ mile loop through the park. What a delight!
Heartland Road Tour
I decided to stop for the day in Idaho Falls. I’m not sure about the rest of the city but the area where I landed is lovely.
They get nearly all their electricity from a single hydroelectric station on the Snake River. I find that amazing for a city with a population of nearly 60,000.
This is the generating station. I’m used to seeing dams built across valleys to create lakes from which the turbines are driven. Here, the river has such a tremendous flow that they simply divert it through the turbines as is passes through the city. What a nice, clean and unobtrusive power plant.
And then they built a lovely park along both sides of the river around the plant.
Of course, Heleigh had to go swimming.
At this point Idaho Falls is the highlight of her trip.
Cheers.
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I can only imagine the view they have while floating above the Northern Utah Mountains.
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I was meandering north without a care in the world. Because my usual Modus Operandi is to “wander at will”, I usually loose track of time and date. All of a sudden it was Memorial Day weekend and every camping spot for miles and miles was full. Darn! I needed a place to lay low for the holiday. I pulled into Heber City and found the WalMart. I went in and spoke with the manager who graciously gave me permission to “asphalt camp” for the next couple days.
Heber City is a beautiful, upscale community. I enjoyed walking around and exploring. It turns out that an airport was just a block away and someone was having fun with a vintage warplane.
I enjoyed my stay there.
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I am going to have so much fun when I return home and get the HeartLand RoadTour Rewind images up on a good computer screen where I can see and edit them.
Heartland Road Tour
Too long in the wasteland of my mind.
I’m not certain it’s a bad thing however.
Yesterday I was at the Grand View overlook in Canyonlands – Island In The Sky. Tourists were in abundance (myself included I suppose). No matter where I walked I couldn’t escape this one couple. Apparently they were unable to think without doing it out loud. There was no escaping them!
This morning I’m leaving the high desert. We’re heading north.
What better way to start a road day than with a real breakfast from a restaurant? I’ve been wanting an omelette for several days now.
Just how long can someone discuss bacon??? Two couples in a booth behind me managed to do so for the entire duration of my breakfast.
Oh well. I like bacon but can it dominate a conversation for half an hour?
1964 – Silence Is Golden – Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons
Cheers! Dog and I are heading to high country. Thanks for riding along.
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The thought just hit me that when I return home from the Heartland RoadTour Rewind it’ll take days and days to sort through photographs.
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Early morning on a highway from nowhere to someplace else.
I love the mornings. Always have! In addition to giving me time to enjoy a new day, the light is awesome for photography.
I can’t wait to get this image into the computer and make some subtle tweaks.
This was on the edge of Capitol Reef National Park On Utah highway 24.
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It’s large and geographically diverse enough to have some crazy differences in weather.
Day before yesterday I was in the extremely warm and arid high desert. Today I’m in the middle latitudes and elevations and it’s cool and humid (relatively);).
Yikes. Back down to the low 30 the next couple nights.