More JCPenney history and then onto Utah
2009-05-06, Salt Lake City, United States. By: emorgan

After another not too cold night we awoke to blue skies and the forever Wyoming windy day. Yesterday while at the museum in Evanston, WY we had learned where the first Golden Rule store was...

Exploring the Evanston, WY area
2009-05-05, Evanston, United States. By: emorgan

It was warmer again last night and we awoke to partly cloudy skies. We headed into the town of Evanston, WY where we went to the Uinta County Museum. They have an excellent museum which is...

Flying away home - a final posting...
2009-05-03, San Francisco, United States. By: Fidgi

Soaring at however many thousand feet up in the sky I may be, I am surprised at how sort of flat I feel. The final stretch of my homeward bound journey was something that I imagined would be filled w...

Fear of Flying
2004-08-30, Bryce Canyon, United States. By: mala

Previous to my discovery of the miracle drug, Lorazapam, my crippling fear of flying kept me safely grounded. It didn't stop me from traveling. In fact my love of cars and boats grew in inverse propor...

Around Kemmerer, WY and then following the Lincoln Highway west
2009-05-04, Evanston, United States. By: emorgan

Snow in May?! We enjoyed being in a motel last night and were surprised to wake up to about an inch of snow on the ground this morning. It must be summer somewhere – oh, yes, back in Charl...

Fossil Butte National Monument and Kemmerer, WY (location of first JCPeney store)
2009-05-03, Kemmerer, United States. By: emorgan

As we were waking and getting ready to go we saw a large herd of sheep being moved. There were several hundred sheep, two cowboys, a few sheep herding dogs, and a few sheep guardian dogs. ...

Exploring Green River, WY to Fossil Butte National Monument
2009-05-02, Fossil, United States. By: emorgan

Last night was a bit warmer than previous nights and we awoke to cloudy skies. We downloaded our camera cards to CDs and bought a few groceries at Wal-Mart then headed west on I-80 to the t...

Las Vegas
2009-05-04, Las Vegas, United States. By: nunns

Three nights in Las Vegas, two of which at the Bellagio. Our first night we arrive early evening and stay out of town. Next morning we drive into Vegas and along the Strip to the hotel. Upon arrival o...

Zion National Park
2009-05-02, Springdale, United States. By: nunns

The journey through Zion Canyon is as stunning a drive as you are likely to get. Enclosed by fascinating formations of different coloured rock faces on either side towering several hundred feet, we dr...

Monument Valley/Glen Canyon
2009-04-30, Page, United States. By: nunns

After the Grand Canyon, could anything beat it? Sorry, no! However, Monument Valley is different – desert scenery interrupted by incredible stacks of red rock towering several hundred feet high. I can...

Hole in the Ground
2009-04-28, Grand Canyon, United States. By: nunns

A certain friend of mine, who shall remain nameless (Martin), said to me that the Grand Canyon was worth a visit for a day – after all, “it’s just a hole in the ground,” he said. So we are booked in f...

Red Rock Sedona
2009-04-26, Sedona, United States. By: nunns

Arrived Flagstaff by turboprop, picked hire car up, and drove straight to Sedona. Good drive through spectacular red rock mountain scenery. Only a 40+ drive but winding mountain roads makes it 2 hours...

CARMEL/MONTEREY: The Yankees Take charge
2009-05-03, Carmel-by-the-Sea, United States. By: no2ndhome

(Excerpted from my book OUR SUMMER IN CARMEL Amazon.com) It is one thing to proclaim that all of California now belongs to the United States, quite another to take charge. Commodore Sloat, being i...

Los Angeles
2009-04-24, Los Angeles, United States. By: nunns

After 10 ½-hour flight from Fiji, arrive at the construction site that is currently LAX international arrivals airport. Get conned after about 15 seconds of leaving airport terminal by an ‘official gr...

Slighty soggy in San Fransisco - if I had any flowers in my hair they'd have got a good watering!
2009-05-01, San Francisco, United States. By: Fidgi

Hmph - no sooner do I arrive in San Fransisco than it decides to pour with rain! Grey, misty, chilly rain… Perhaps the powers that be are trying to prepare me for my return to London, city of similar...

Exploring South Pass, WY to Rock Springs, WY
2009-05-01, Rock Springs, United States. By: emorgan

Last night was probably the coldest night we have had this year driving west since we left Charleston, SC. It was nice to be in our cozy warm bed with our winter sleeping bags inside the va...

Exploring the Lander, WY area
2009-04-30, South Pass City, United States. By: emorgan

We woke up at the Willie Handcart Mormon Historic Site to a chilly but sunny morning. We had hoped to see some people we had met there last year that had been very hospitable to us but unfo...

Strange Progessions
2009-05-01, Fairfield, CT, United States. By: sauntering

My emotions are like butterflies, I try to capture them but they float away... I can't sit still to write more than a few jumbled sentences. I need movement, more than the twitching of fingers acro...

Following Emigrant Trails west from Independence Rock to Willie Handcart Mormon Historic Site
2009-04-29, Sweetwater Station, United States. By: emorgan

It got cold again last night but we’re nice and warm in our bed in the van. When we awoke it was still quite chilly and very windy! Last year when we were walking west and stopped at Indep...

Following Emigrant Trails from Casper, WY to Independence Rock
2009-04-28, Muddy Gap, United States. By: emorgan

We awoke to a sunny day though it was a bit chilly. To our south we can see Casper Mountain Range which is covered with snow. We drove to Fort Caspar Museum, operated by the city of Casper...

Llano, Texas : River Beauty, Wildflowers, Crawfish Festival, Painted Buntings
2009-04-29, Llano, United States. By: rmalone

Llano, Texas : River Beauty, Wildflowers, Crawfish Festival, Painted Buntings Interesting Birds in our backyard this trip: Painted Buntings Wren Scissor tailed Flycatcher Vermilion Flycatche...

Following the Oregon/ California Trail along hwy 26 to Casper, WY
2009-04-27, Casper, United States. By: emorgan

After a lazy morning we checked out of the Four Winds Motel in Douglas, WY then drove to the west side of town where we went to the Wyoming Pioneer Memorial Museum. It was quite interesting...

CARMEL/MONTEREY HISTORY: The Yankees Arrive
2009-04-27, Carmel-by-the-Sea, United States. By: no2ndhome

(Excerpted from my book OUR SUMMER IN CARMEL, Amazon.com) Although it took Spain almost three hundred years to get off their galleons and settle California, in a space of only seventy more years S...

Taking a day off in Douglas, WY
2009-04-26, Douglas, United States. By: emorgan

We spent the morning in our room watching a movie and working on our journal photographs then went to Pizza Hut for lunch. After eating we headed to Locomotive Park. This is a small visito...

Ayres Natural Bridge in the snow
2009-04-25, Douglas, United States. By: emorgan

We awoke to two inches of snow this morning but it didn’t stick on the roads. It was pretty seeing white across the fields and in the trees. About sunrise the temperature was twenty-eight ...