June 18, 2021 Because of COVID and our daughter Elizabeth Leigh’s (now Leigh for professional reasons) school schedule, we hadn’t been together in 18 months. We scheduled two weeks in Eugene to remedy the situation and had an amazing time seeing some of the area, eating great local and home-cooked Read more…
June 13, 2021 Newberry is one of the largest volcanoes in North America. Its lava flows reach 75 miles and its vents extend 65 miles covering 120 cubic miles. (Mt. St. Helens, in comparison, covers 6 cubic miles.) Its eruptions occurred from 400,000 to 1,300 years ago. We visited four Read more…
June 12, 2021 For the purposes of this museum, the high desert is the intermountain west bordered generally by the Colorado River Plateau to the north, the Rocky Mountains to the east, the Great Basin to the south, and the Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges to the west. It Read more…
June 11, 2021 After one of our longest travel days of the summer (320 miles), we arrived at Crown Villa RV Resort. It is owned by the same company that owns Palm Creek in Casa Grande, Arizona where we’ve spent the last two winters. Palm Creek has 2500 sites in Read more…
June 4, 2021 J. Curtis Earl collected historic weaponry from the Bronze Age to the present and gave his collection to the Penitentiary.
June 2, 2021 Exhibits of local companies and personalities were our favorite parts of the museum. Companies from Idaho include Boise Cascade (paper products), Simplot (they were one of America’s largest shippers of fresh potatoes in the 1940s, developed dehydrated potatoes for World War II troops, and created the first Read more…
June 2, 2021 The Basque Museum and Cultural Center was established in 1985 and is the first U.S. museum dedicated to preserving the Basque legacy. Basque is a region about the size of Maryland in the western Pyrenes between Spain and France. The Basque language, Euskara, is unrelated to other Read more…
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…