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…
May 11, 2021 We made a day of geocaching at Capitol Reef National Park. We sought three types of caches: Traditional caches have a container with a log inside, virtual caches require the cacher to go to a location and take a picture or answer a question, and earthcaches require Read more…
May 10, 2021 But first, a quick catch up for yesterday, May 9. We slept late and picked up a few geocaches, one of which gave us an overlook of Loa, Utah where we are staying this week. Loa is a town of about 500 and was settled in 1876. Read more…
May 8, 2021 Capitol Reef was named after white-domed capitol buildings that its rock features resemble and the 100-miles of rock formations that hindered progress as a reef does in the ocean. The “reef” is actually Waterpocket Fold, a buckle in the earth’s surface where rocks have been pushed upwards Read more…