Those Young Guys – Finding Our Way
We departed Brigham City, Utah early in the morning to get a head start on the Salt Lake City traffic enjoying the sunrise over the Wasatch Mountains. We sailed through SLC with no problems and no slow downs. That’s a first for us! YAY! Of course, we chose a Sunday
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Off to Utah!! We crossed the border and headed towards Brigham City. As we got closer to Brigham City there were a number of farmers fields on fire presumably prescribed burns. Many farmers do this to remove old thatch and crop residuals and improve the native grasslands and controls the
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We drove north on AZ Hwy 89 from Flagstaff towards Bitter Springs through the Navajo Nation. We passed many Navajo souvenir roadside stands selling their wares. The shop by Bitter Springs is my favorite and I love, love, love the photos on the side of their stand. We decided to
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We departed Layton, Utah to the sounds of jets roaring above us from Hill AFB. The Sound of Freedom. On our way south we headed west on I-80 to skirt the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake and pass the Great Salt Lake State Park and the famous Saltair.
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Today was a long drive as we headed south through Montana seeing roundups along the way, then on to Idaho checking out crops and crop dusters, passing Malelucca (one of our favorite companies) in Idaho Falls, admiring the scenery in Pocatello (one of our favorite towns), and on into Utah!
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The city of Kanab sits just north of the Arizona border at an elevation of almost 5,000 feet and a population of almost 5,000 people. It is situated in the Grand Circle area near Vermilion Cliffs, Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park, Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, and Lake
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We departed Phoenix to a display of hot air balloons over the Sonoran Desert Preserve and on to Flagstaff with the snow covered Humphreys Peak. From there we continued north on Hwy 89 towards Page passing Cameron (where we usually fill up with fuel) and on north through the Navajo
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We headed south out of Salt Lake City with a bit of rain showers and a few thunderstorms here and there. We crossed over the pass between the Markagunt Plateau and the Tushar Mountains on Highway 20. It is a road we have driven many times and it seems like
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We drove from Dillon, Montana south to Idaho going through Idaho Falls and continued to the North Blackfoot rest area. The area is known for its lava rocks as some 4,000 years ago the crust opened up and lava flowed out about 17 miles northwest of this area and eventually
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Our drive today took us from Jacob Lake, Arizona north into Utah and on to Cedar City. As we headed north along 89A we came to the LeFevre Overlook. This overlook provides great views into southern Utah of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. We continued on to Fredonia and then
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