A is for "An American Adventure"

Two days after school was out
we left Shaffners' Mountain in a honkin' big RV
and traveled across America,
mostly on iconic Route 66,
to pick up our son Paul and his family
who had flown in from their home in Taiwan.
We drove America from south to north--
just shy of the Canadian border--
and from west to east, home to the mountain.
Following are selected memories in alphabetical order:  

Alpine adventure in an RV south of Red Lodge, Montana

We saw bison near the Grand Canyon's north rim and also in Yellowstone

Claw with colorful Cadillacs in Texas

Den does Disneyland

Eating famous onion burgers in El Reno, Oklahoma

 

 

Games with grandgirls-- checkers with Anna...

...and Chinese checkers with Lucy

Forest fires kept us out of Bryce Canyon NP

Hours and hours of traveling! Time passed with Legos...

restful conversations...

reading...

and snacks. Always snacks.

I is for ingenious indigenous people. Andrea Two Bulls made me a bison tooth necklace

Junior Ranger programs at Yellowstone, Glacier, and Mount Rushmore

Uncle Jack and Aunt Shirley's kitchen in Ogden, Utah...

...where the oatmeal is tasty, the coffee is hot, the birds are cool, and the conversation is scintillating

Lincoln's loo, Springfield, Illinois

Mountain man at Meteor Crater, Arizona

Nevada was almost as hot as Needles, California. 109!

Old guy at Old Faithful

Pretending to be Laura Ingalls and an Indian princess...

...and Mr. Bonkeepers, the rabbit. Perchance, is his first name "Harvey"?

Questions: Who is standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona next to a flatbed Ford? And where is the girl? And did she look?

...and where did Butch Cassidy hide the money?

...and what small mammal perched on Sue in the middle of the night?

...and why did ravens follow Denny around? Could it have been the snacks?

...and can you see the resemblance to Mount Rushmore?

R is for rodeo in Cody, Wyoming

Shadows on the prairie...

...and straight stretches

Teton twirling

Under umbrellas on Uncle Jack's Utah patio

Vying with Vader

Warm waters in Yellowstone...

frigid snowmelt waters in Glacier...

wonderful waters were everywhere. Almost.

Sometimes while you're napping you can be showered with taco chips when bags EXPLODE...

...because when you are above 10,000 feet, life is EXCITING!

Yesssss! We fished in Yellowstone

 and hiked in Zion.

 

 

Zion Canyon is just one of the zillions of reasons to travel.

 

 

 

 

 

Did you notice that I lied? This list is NOT in alphabetical order. I can't get the F picture to cooperate. Apologies to all our OCD friends.