Author: majik756
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Hoovenweep National Monument
Dear friends and family . . . This will be my fourth try to get this blog out to all of you. I have been in two different KOA sites and two different hotels and still have not been at a place where I can get the photos attached in the blog uploaded. It seems…
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On the Move again!
In the past few days or so I have hiked and photographed Bryce Canyon NP, Goblin Valley State Park, Capitol Reef NP, Arches NP and Canyonlands NP. Canyonlands NP actually has three entrances and I have only been into one, which means tomorrow, on my way to Mesa Verde NP, I need to visit the…
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The Garfield Peak Trail
Crater Lake is just that, an enormous lake that sits inside the caldera of an ancient volcano. The water in the caldera has collected from melting snow and rainwater. It is over nine hundred feet deep and averages about 42 degrees, even in the hot summer months. The island you see is called “Wizard’s Island”…
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Signs
Have you ever had the universe send you a sign about where it wanted you to take your life? Have you ever ignored that sign and then run head long into KARMA?? Recently, my life on the road had gone sour . . . between blisters, unbearable heat, unbearably hot nights in a sweltering tent,…
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Chipmunks and Ground Squirrels
I have been hiking fairly heavy for the past three days. My feet are worn out and I have a couple of blisters that are not being friendly. I am still pretty much acclimated to sea level living and the past three days have all been somewhere between 7,000 and 8,500 feet. The sights I…
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Bobcat
Yesterday, I was driving east on Utah Highway 12, towards Escaltante Petrified Forest State Park, when up ahead of me I saw a car pulled partially off the road with the hazard lights flashing. As I eased up behind the vehicle, off to my left, standing on the edge of the highway was this adult…
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What A Day it has Been!!
Dear family, friends and followers, the past 24 hours have been difficult. After a bit over 3.5 months and about 17,000 miles on the road, through five Canadian Provinces, a multitude of States, along with a very large number of various State and Federal Parks, Monuments and Historic sites, with almost no issues, injuries or…
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Mount Saint Helens National Park
May 18, 1980, I was on duty, serving onboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600). We were moored at the new Bangor Submarine Base waiting to move down to the Bremerton Shipyard so that the boat could go through a decommissioning. Mount Saint Helens had been in the news for weeks prior as it burped and…
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Mount Ranier National Park
I am relatively sure that everyone that lives in Washington State has seen Mount Ranier. It is pretty hard not to see the usually snowcapped dome soaring high over most all of the State’s landscape. It is a most wonderous sight to see. Mount Ranier National Park is another of the absolutely wonderful, long-standing parks…
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Olympic National Park
Continuing my journey, now wandering through Washington State, I find myself on the edge of Olympic National Park. This is not an easy park to get to, tucked away on the west coast of the Washington, in the upper northwest which is more commonly known as the “Peninsula”. You can fly into Seattle, Tacoma, possibly…
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