The Leeds area, on the western edge of the Colorado Plateau, has experienced many boom and bust cycles in the past 200 million years. Thanks to the uplift of the Colorado Plateau roughly 20 million years ago much of the area’s ancient story can be determined from the exposed rock layers. Though the oldest layer [...]
When we last left off Lance and I were driving south on I-15 (which follows an old Indian trail) from Provo on our way to Leeds, Utah. Most people have never heard of this small agricultural community. Roughly 15 miles north of St. George, Leeds is barely a dot on the map. We picked it [...]
Finally leaving Idaho after more than a month we continued on our way south, with our next stop in Provo, Utah. Originally known as Fort Utah, the town was settled by Mormon families just two short years after the arrival of the first Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley.
Here’s the backstory, briefly: in 1830 [...]
On Sunday we secured our belongings, stowing any items that might shift during travel, and left Ashton, Idaho driving south on Highway 20. After a quick 50 miles we joined I-15, the major thoroughfare that we will follow all the way through Idaho and into Utah. It was a short travel day for us since [...]
We had a weekend to explore Yellowstone, not nearly enough time but we were determined to make the most of it. Yellowstone, the first national park in the country, indeed the world, was created on March 1, 1872 when President Ulysses S. Grant signed The Act of Dedication. Primarily located in Wyoming, but also spilling [...]
It was a long weekend of travel for us, instead of driving our usual 200 miles or less we tackled a whopping 504 mile journey. We maybe could have shaved off a few miles by taking smaller roads but this time we stuck to the Interstates. As I mentioned before, the Idaho Panhandle is rather [...]
We were heading into the Big Sky state for the weekend. It truly is big, the state is the fourth largest in the U.S. after Alaska, Texas, and California. I think the name of the state may be a bit misleading, Montana is the Spanish word for mountain. While the western side of the state [...]
We left Seattle in the middle of a heat wave—temperatures were in the low 90s–rather hot for that part of the state. Temperatures out in eastern Washington, where we were headed, were even higher. When we lived in Tucson we were accustomed to those soaring triple digits but now, after two years of following mild [...]
Much of our attraction to visiting the Seattle area is in the wide diversity of nearby activities. Our time was made even more special because we were able to spend it with friends. Our first weekend, Lisa and Gino drove up from Portland. We spent most of Saturday touring the sights in downtown Seattle. The [...]
The drive from Port Angeles to Seattle is not an easy one even though they are only about 80 miles apart. As the crow flies. The problem between here and there is the lovely and all-important Puget Sound. Oh sure, in theory there is a ferry that would transport a person and their vehicle from [...]
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