Heading south and east from Moab, we arrived at Mesa Verde National Park. The Moorefield campground is very pleasant. There are wild turkeys and deer roaming about. Also, there are many eagles roaming the thermals at the mesa’s edge. The park provides guided tours of the cliff sites — you have to register at the…
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After the Colorado National Monument, we were thinking of visiting Dinosaur National Monument, but at the time, lousy weather (cold, rain, snow) was dropping down from Wyoming into the northern parts of Utah, so we gave Dinosaur a pass, sigh. Anyway, it was an easy day’s travel from Grand Junction to Moab, which is just…
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We were planning on staying at Rocky Mountain National Park, but the weather (snow closed the mountain pass) had other plans. Thus, we ended up staying in Grand Junction — no camping here since we got there pretty late after a heck of a ride on I70 from Big Springs and some fine mountain scenery….
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In the fall of 1995 I embarked with my companions on a road trip that was to include parts of the states of Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. Since we ended up going much faster than we originally thought (sometimes due to bad weather), we also included New Mexico, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia before it…
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On our way home from the Badlands we wanted to make several stops. The first was a place called the Pink Poodle in Crescent, Iowa just outside of Omaha. The Pink Poodle serves some of the most massive (and good) slabs of corn feed beef to be found anywhere — no it isn’t a fancy…
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With just a brief visit to Devil’s Tower, we continued through the Black Hills of Dakota to the Badlands. The Badlands are a spectacular erosion feature. The soil in the area is the result of volcanic activity to the west and easterly winds that carried huge amounts of ash to the area in the Paleocene…
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We left Yellowstone and travel east through some very nice county — the Shoshone National Forest and the Bighorn mountains. We stopped for the night (it was wet, cold and miserable) at a HoJo in Buffalo. The next morning we were off eastward again to make a stop at the Devil’s Tower.
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After we had toured Yellowstone, the weather abruptly turned stormy. It was the 2nd week of September, but with the altitude, winter was arriving. The next morning we awoke to the beginning of a snowstorm and we cleared out quick! We rushed out of Yellowstone and headed south hoping to see the Grand Tetons before…
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Leaving Craters of the Moon we headed west and north to Yellowstone National Park. As mentioned above, Yellowstone is a result of the volcanic activity from the travelling hot-spot in the Earth’s interior. Indeed, Yellowstone encompasses a huge caldera in which many of the famous volcanic features are found. Several of the prominent features of…
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Continuing through the Snake River valley we visited the Craters of the Moon National Monument. The Craters of the Moon National Monument is an area where considerable recent volcanic activity has occurred providing vast areas of lava flows and cinder cones. Indeed, the Columbia Plateau, Craters of the Moon and Yellowstone are all linked to…
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