Vacations and Pictures

You asked for them. Here they are. Pictures. Lots of pictures. And, I'm only going to show you a few. I'll provide you with a link where you can look at all the pictures we "deemed" fit to post on our website.





First the grandchildren.









Here is Kasey Belle. My first granddaughter.








Next are pictures of my son, Kyle. His wife, Trish and my grandson, Dominik and granddaughter, Kylie.

Now onto the sights we saw during our drive from Tucson, AZ to Buffalo, WY.

Here we are in SE Utah on our way to Monument Valley.

The mountain structures and formations were amazing. I couldn't wait to see what Monument Valley looked like.

This crow made the perfect subject for the backdrop of the Monument Valley peaks.

The sights were amazing.

?Have you seen anything so gorgeous in your life

From Monument Valley we headed to Arches National Park. Lots of hiking there to get to see the natural arches formed by the elements.

Next we went to 9 Mile Canyon. Here we found petroglyphs. Some were only a few hundred years old, others were thousands of years old.

This image showed warriors and the great number of big horn sheep they killed.

It was sad to see that some of the petroglyphs were marred by graffiti. 

Our next day's adventure was Yellowstone National Park. Wow. What an adventure that day was. We started out early in the morning looking to Upper Mesa Falls and finished with a drive through the wilderness.

We saw all kinds of geysers. Some in the form of pools. Others steam vents. Some just globs of hot mud. Others were full on gushers.

Old Faithful was still somewhat "faithful" and exploded within the 10 minutes give or take of its estimated time.

We saw Elk. 

And more Elk.

Another waterfall. Tower Falls.

And, the crowning glory of what I wanted to see. Bison. Yay.

Yellowstone is absolutely gorgeous. And it's hard to believe it's as pristine as it is.

If you want to see more great pictures other than the ones shown here, visit the following website.

http://gregtaylor.name/albums/2013_az_to_wyoming/

And, this I promise is the last of my "Vacation" blog posts. 

Vacations and Sightseeing

If you've seen one rock you've seen them all, right? 

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

Not where we've been. We hit Monument Valley first. All I can say is totally awesome. We stayed there several hours until sundown so we could get some sunset pictures of the rock formations as the sun set. The memories will stay with me forever. Or less than forever if I get dementia. 

This is just one of hundreds of photos I took using the camera, iPad, and iPhone. 

We got to tour the entire valley by vehicle. The park suggested high rise vehicles but I even. Saw a Saturn driving through there. I hope they made it through all right. The road terrain was pretty gruesome in places.

From there we went to Arches National Park. We toured that mostly by vehicle as well, only getting out in a couple places to stop and take pictures or walk to an arch inaccessible by road. 

Our final Utah sightseeing stop was 9 Mile Canyon. Don't let the name fool you. The canyon isn't 9 miles long. It's actually 75 miles long and sights are few and far between. And you have to get out and hike trails to the sights. 

What are the sights you ask? Petroglyphs, of course!!

We saw some amazing drawings from various ages of Indians. Some thousands of years ago others a lot newer. 

So, as I type, we are driving through Idaho on our way to Yellowstone National Park which we'll reach tomorrow. 

It's been an amazing trip through the wild Wild West.