we drove through provo canyon to bridal veil falls(this one is in utah tracy) yesterday, and made it to a rock springs,wyoming koa campground, so we can take showers.
this canyon is not as colorful as cedar breaks, but it is beautiful in a different way.
didn’t mean to put an extra one in – and then couldn’t delete it
it was a beautiful day to drive.
i was shooting into the sun, i liked the effect, but moved anyway
this is much better
if you look hard you will almost see a ♥️
Oooohhhhh-aaahhhhh
looks like a castleMy rocks
we love just looking at the clouds
this post isn’t very tidy. i had trouble staying connected this morning and couldn’t make things work very well.
its working better now but i’m not going back to fix it now, even if i could figure out how to do it.
so stay tuned and see if i can get better at this new way to insert pictures
and The principal qualities considered in studying areas for park purposes are their inspirational, educational, and recreational values. National monuments, on the other hand, are areas reserved by the National Government because they contain objects of historic, prehistoric, or scientific interest.Oct 31, 2002. and now you know.
i circled the area we traveled. we’ve been to zion, bryce, and the grand staircase in past travels. cedar breaks national monument was established as a monument by theodore roosevelt in 1933. he wanted it preserved for all mankind. it’s small but beautiful and is not traveled as much as others. if you like to hike it would be the place to go. the red rock formations are breathtaking. we stopped at all four overlooks, all similar but yet different. the most striking is the sunset overlook. you can find pictures online that are much better than mine.
it was a cold and windy day
the roads are as interesting as the overlooks. they are laced with bristlecone pines, aspens, and rock formations.
our schweethearts do like traveling with us. smokey looks out for fires.
we were on a winding road out of cedar breaks and at one point jerry had to stop to let the breaks cool. so i got some rocks. the highway to our next stop, provo, was very long and uneventful. all flatland. but every town we passed had the familiar white steeples on their mormon churchs. a lot of them are all white like this one. i read they don’t use the cross at all on the church or literature, and have no windows. a synic would say that’s to hide whats going on inside???
we are going to provo canyon and bridal veil falls today. i’m not sure how far we will make it after that.
we are missing our midas
and our frequent visitors on the porch and “the girls” of course
and of course every one back home. thank you all for being such good friends, good neighbors and good relatives. thank you for the delicious tuna salad linda, thanks kara for emergency money, and thank you all for your comments. i love them all.
i had two espresso martini’s tracy. the cracker barrel food is like a home cooked meal sharon and you get lots of it. jerry and i always share. try jillyandjerry.wordpress.com. i don’t think it’s the pictures martha, its just the format to enter them in the post. and thank you anonymous in reno, hope you like these pictures.
a reminder-i don’t capitalize on the blog. it takes too much time-and i don’t pay a lot of attention to grammar either.
we left long beach around 11 am thursday, stopping at mcdonalds for our usual cheap hamburgers we can eat as we drive. we made it to las vegas by 4:30, only stopping in baker because jerry wanted an ice cream. yes an ice cream. not gas this time. we actually made it on one tank of gas to las vegas. just barely. a first for jerry.
we watched this hotel being built from the wynn. remember they were putting the t up when you and daryl were here tracy. by the way, happy birthday daryl.
we ate dinner at cracker barrel and went to circus circus rv park for the night. we needed electricity to run the ac it was so hot. it was $30 that night. they wanted $63 for friday night. no thank you.
this is a new hotel that wasn’t here last time we were here with frank and linda a few years ago
i know a lot of you don’t like las vegas and wish to spend no time here. we have learned to enjoy our time here. the shows are spectacular, the good hotels make you feel special, and the sights are mind boggling, the fountains for instance. for awhile Jerry’s pbi job made las vegas a neccisity. we did trade shows here every year. and with all expenses are paid you can really enjoy yourselves. we learned the in’s and out’s and shortcuts to a lot of things.
we got our eggs in a basket at cracker barrel for breakfast this morning. the guy we always get our star tattoos doesn’t work here anymore. so we went to the goodwill outlet, a few more favorite thrift stores and since it wasn’t hot went to park behind the paris, an old standby for years, they do charge $15 dollar overnight parking now. much better than $63. we were going to ‘mon ami gabi’ in the paris anyway. i was disappointed they no longer serve skate, but the steak and frites were delicious. we had fun in the bar talking to a nice guy from boca raton, fl.
thats not us, but its where we sat last night
remember these guys hannah,tracy, javie
View from the parking lot
we got up this morning, got ice, and left for st. george to have lunch at, yes, the cracker barrel. we had the pork chops. delicious. then got on the road to cedar city to spend the night. tomorrow we will go to cedar breaks national monument, it’s near zion and bryce and a continuation of the grand staircase.
look what we saw on the road. its even the same color as ours.
almost a heart💗 i dont know why this picture is so big
i’m having trouble with the new format of wordpress, it’s all greek to me now. so bear with me and
who knew the world was going to go into a tailspin, and drag us all with it, for over 18 months and counting. we were able to get our booster shots yesterday so we feel better about being on the road now.
we are going to finally get to see where tracy and daryl have been hanging out for 5 years. grand forks, north dakota. they like that small town life. no traffic, no crowds, a simpler way of fife.
they bought 2 1/2 acres of land on a corner lot, had plans for a house drawn up to their specs and hired a contractor. which daryl is, by the way, so he did a lot of the work himself. he built the garage too. he’s also restoring his grandfathers pick-up truck. he is the only person i know that has a riding lawn mower, snow plow, and a tractor. and no telling what else in his garage.
tracy is still working. she got the position of the deans office manager of nursing at the university of north dakota after moving there. recently a position of ‘director of alumni and external relations’ – in the bigger college of arts and sciences opened up, she applied, and got the job. “yay tracy”. so she will transfer there this week. same kind of work, but more duties with different surroundings and people. a change of scenery so to speak. her birthday is the 28th so we will be there to celebrate with her for that, and her new job. “yay”.
this trip we will also see our last 2 state capitols. bismark, nd – and piere, sd. that probably doesn’t mean a lot to most folks, but seeing all 50 states and their capitols, was a bucket list adventure. of course we will see lots of stuff on the 6,000 miles we travel, with lots of pictures.
Once in awhile-now and again-this is us 