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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After Mount Rainier, we raced up to Sea-Tac to drop off Terry. He was to fly back to Toronto and we continued our trip by returning to Portland for another load-up of wine — this time from the Willamette Valley wineries. After filling the back of the truck up again, we headed out along the…
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Heading north from Crater Lake, past Portland and into Washington State we headed to Mount Rainier National Park. Unfortunately we arrived to late for a campsite in the park so we stopped at Alexander’s Inn. Interestingly, they have a house for rent adjacent to the Inn and that night it was not taken so we…
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Crater Lake is a water filled caldera left from the remains of Mount Mazuma. The water is very deep and still and clear. This gives it an incredible blue colour that is just very hard to believe even when you are looking at it.
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We headed into Northern California to experience the majesty of the redwoods. Unfortunately, the first night we stayed in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, we managed to total the back window on the truck. [This was the last time we used those elastic bungy cords to strap our roof carrier onto the truck!]. As such we…
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After getting our fill of San Fran, we proceeded into the holiday portion of our trip with a start of the Napa and particularly the Sonoma Wine Country. Our focus, of course, was to stock up the back of the truck with sufficient wine to last until we got to Portland and the Willamette Valley!…
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Following our first fully equipped road trip in the fall of 1992, and encouraged by our enjoyment of it, we planned a greater and longer trip. In the fall of 1993 my companions and I went on a road trip to see the West Coast of the US and then return home eastward along the…
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