We landed in Albequerque and were greeted by our tour director, had lunch with Cordelia from San Francisco, and met up with the rest of the group later. Nancy came up to me and, seeing we were from Michigan, asked where in Michigan and I told her. She said her husband was from a small town in Michigan, EVART! And so Ron and Kathy got aquainted with each other and though they did not know each other, they had many intermediate connections.
When Rain Turns White
We walked parts to two rim trails. One was at the Grand Canyon and the other was at Bryce Canyon. Both walks were between 2.5 and 3 miles along paths wide enough for two people to pass with no guardrails and the cliffs beside us. Each step gave us new stunning views of the scenes below--the grandeur of the Grand canyon and the pink-colored hoodoos of Bryce. On both walks we encountered beautiful but brief snowstorms dusting our trails.Rubbing Elbows
Santa Fe is now the number two city in art sales in the US, but we were more interested in standing at the end of the Santa Fe Trail marker in a corner of the Plaza.
Park City (Sundance Film Festival) might be the trendiest city in Utah. We liked the Utah Olympic Park outside town where training and competition take place in ski jumping, ski aerials, bobsled, luge, and skeleton.
Jackson, Wyoming has a Christie's real estate office--isn't that a "tell" for pricey real estate? At street corners without traffic signals, take the red flag to show you want to cross the road, walk with it to the other side, and place it in the rack for another pedestrian to use. To top it off, Dick Cheney's helicopter flew over our hotel to signal us he was on his way to Jackson Hole Airport to board Air Force Two.
We crossed this thousand-foot bridge built across Glen Canyon to supply the construction of the dam.
Jackson, Wyoming has a Christie's real estate office--isn't that a "tell" for pricey real estate? At street corners without traffic signals, take the red flag to show you want to cross the road, walk with it to the other side, and place it in the rack for another pedestrian to use. To top it off, Dick Cheney's helicopter flew over our hotel to signal us he was on his way to Jackson Hole Airport to board Air Force Two.
Things Were Looking Up
We crossed this thousand-foot bridge built across Glen Canyon to supply the construction of the dam.
Inside the dam an electric generator was being replaced. A 10-foot step ladder can be seen before the uninstalled turbine.
From the floor of Zion Canyon, along the Virgin River, we found a geological formation named Alter and Pulpit--the river makes Zion NP a green oasis in the high desert of southwest Utah.
Unusual Dinner Location.
In Salt Lake City, after we toured Temple Square and saw the Tabernacle,
we went to Lion House, one of Brigham Young's homes, where the church has a cafeteria-style restaurant called the Pantry. Good food, historic locale.
In Salt Lake City, after we toured Temple Square and saw the Tabernacle,
we went to Lion House, one of Brigham Young's homes, where the church has a cafeteria-style restaurant called the Pantry. Good food, historic locale.
1 comment:
I think the flags on the corner for crossing the street is a Western US culture thing. I've seen them in a couple areas in Seattle, and its a pretty simple, low tech, easy to understand concept.
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