May 29, 2021 We left Hagerman Friday May 28 after Dave had checked out the fossilized skeleton of the Hagerman Horse through the door of the Hagerman Fossil Beds Visitor Center [closed until new facilities are completed]. The Hagerman Horse lived 3.5 million years ago and became extinct 10,000 years Read more…
May 26, 2021 We never know what we’re going to see when we’re out and about. We had several stops in mind when we took off and came upon a few more once we got going. We had read about Balanced Rock and went looking for it 16 miles from Read more…
May 25, 2021 This canyon was formed by the combined actions of flooding thousands of years ago and erosion by water from the springs themselves. We weren’t sure what to expect and took off across the top of the gorge. The box canyon is one of several units of Thousand Read more…
May 24, 2021 Twin Falls is a city of about 50,000 and serves as the commercial center for southwestern Idaho and northeastern Nevada. The Oregon Trail came through the area but development didn’t begin until the valley was irrigated around 1900. We checked out a city park and had some Read more…
May 23, 2021 Each of our stops for the rest of the season will be at least a week. Whew! We appreciate being able to slow things down a little bit. This post, for example, covers our adventures from May 19-23. Geocaching We spent one of our days in Tremonton, Read more…
May 18, 2021 The Railroad Act of 1862 set starting points, financial incentives, and building expectations for the railroad that was to join the east and west coasts of the United States. The completed railroad would reduce travel time–by wagon across the U.S. plains or by ship around Cape Horn–from Read more…
May 16, 2021 Today we went three fun places. We won’t talk much about the third one–we expect our readers know Wal-Mart, but it was fun since we haven’t been in a place big enough to have that kind of store in two weeks. Marble Park, Bothwell, Utah Boyd Marble’s Read more…
May 15, 2021 Yesterday we moved the coach from Loa to Tremonton, Utah, a distance of about 270 miles. It was complicated by an ornery entrance step. In order to get the step retracted, Dave had to disconnect the step from the motor and chain the step in place for Read more…
May 13, 2021 We had one earth cache we wanted to get and one trail we wanted to walk before we left Capitol Reef and they were both Hickman Natural Bridge. The bridge is named for Joseph Hickman who was an early advocate for protecting Capitol Reef. He was a Read more…
Fishlake is one of the largest natural alpine lakes in Utah. It is 175 feet deep and features trophy fishing including Mackinaw trout up to 25 pounds. We took a circular route through the Fishlake National Forest to see the area for ourselves. Fishlake itself was clear and clean. The Read more…