Here is our trip in a nutshell….a very big nut…3386
plus miles. We wish we had taken
pictures of each stop, but we didn’t.
Day #1 Took Sean to dinner in Cedar City. Stayed in Beaver…
Day #2 Drove through towns dad has always wanted to
see :Pintura (maybe 5 houses)
Holden,Kanosh and Meadow (not necessarily in that order
We drove through the Mt. Nebo
loop.
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| Scenes from the Loop |
Visited with Uncle Gary. (
Jean had just gotten back from her second hospital stay and was sleeping.) Got to Mike’s
in time to celebrate Carver’s 20th birthday. Met Sean’s
friend -girl Maren and really
enjoyed her. Drove to Heber.
Day #3 Parker’s farewell. He gave an excellent talk. We visited, went for a walk with the dogs
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| Parker Trying to get Grandpa to pose GQ |
Day #4 Visited Dixie in Afton Wyoming and spent the night at her cabin on
Todd’s ranch.
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| Lynn and Cousin Dixie |
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| Flowers on Todds Ranch |
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Dixie's Cabin on Todd's Ranch where we stayed
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Day #5 Bade Dixie
farewell. Met Ezra in Pocatello and took Brie and Steven to
lunch.
Took Kyle and Jeanette for ice
cream in Rexburg. Spent the night in Butte Montana. What a surprise Butte was!
Day #6 Spent half a day touring Butte.
It was a major copper/silver mining community, has a huge open pit mine,
had a major disaster in the early
1900’s. Lots of old buildings,
like a semi-ghost town largely occupied.
At one time Butte was larger than New York City. Full of immigrants. The disaster killed men from many
countries. Their flags are embedded in
the memorial to the disaster.
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| Mine Disaster Memorial Butte...some of the flags of miners shown |
Drove to Glacier
National Park, spent the night with an
awesome view of Lake
McDonald in Apgar.
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| These photos of Lake McDonald were all within a 24 hour period |
Day #7. Drove to Avalanche and took an .8 mile walk through the woods to a beautiful waterfall. You can even hear it with us :)
From the park we headed
towards Grants Pass and spent the night in Kennewick Washington.
Day #8 Drove to Grants
Pass to spend the night with the McCulloughs. Tom talked us into staying another day. Good idea!
We were road weary.
Day #9 Visited
with McCulloughs more and took them to dinner at a beautiful restaurant on the
Rogue River in Grants Pass,
the Taprock.
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| McCullough's living room showing Southwest style of their home |
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| Tom, Barbara, Dix and Lynn |
Day #10 Bade farewell to the McCulloughs and tried to
go to church. We were misinformed of the
time in Grants Pass, so headed to Central Point (Medford) which was farther than we realized. We got about 10 minutes of the spirit, walked
around the temple, and headed out.
We visited with one of dad’s college roommates and
wife, Fred Lourence in Red Bluff.. (He is a big fan of
the Other Side of Heaven) Then we drove
to Roseville CA and took Dad’s cousin Pat and her fiancé
Bob to dinner. Pat’s most recent husband
died about 3 years ago and she and Bob found each other through friends…They
will be married in a couple of weeks. We stayed in Roseville, road weary again.
Day #11 Headed to Half
Moon Bay,,
slowly…Our Google app had been working awesomely, but in the middle of San Francisco she stopped
talking to us. Not good! Picked Josh up at school, spent the
afternoon/evening enjoying the family and sharing family night. We 4 adults went for a walk out to where we
could see Mavricks. It was a beautiful
day in Half Moon Bay.
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| Half Moon Bay from our walk |
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| Mavricks beyond the rocks to the right |
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| Dad at the entrance to Randy's house |
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| Almost time for school |
Jonesy the soccer king
Day #12..Drove home….stopped at Rose Hills
Cemetery to follow up on
the situation with dad and mom’s headstones. They are nicely restored.
Suffered thru about 200 miles of heavy
traffic, including highway 78 in San
Marcos…
Happy to be home, happy to have seen so many
family and friends.
The photos are out of order, but I am not going to try to get it right....We now have a great patio/deck cover behind the house, middle photo shows it complete. Love it when he gets bored!
