Excellent Adventures

Thursday: More Ghost Towns and Dikes Thursday we loaded up and headed out to Raton. Because I would be returning to Los Alamos and Bruce would be returning to the Denver area, we would be making this trip in separate cars, then meeting up in Raton to use his (more...Read more

Wednesday: Dikes and Ghost Towns South of Santa Fe has always been kind of a blank spot on my mental map. However, I discovered that there is a fair amount of interesting geology and history in this area, and we had a New Mexico Geological Society road log of the...Read more

It’s another long story, but the basics of it are that Mom took my sisters on a cruise, then decided she ought to do something for her sons as well, and sent me and Cindy (and my brother and his wife) some money for the express purpose of going somewhere...Read more

Day 12: Shoot, That Was Fun Got up to find that Robin’s wife was already to work; they are both lawyers, sharing a practice, and having both of them clear their schedules for my visit was not practical. Robin took me to a pretty decent coffee shop for breakfast and...Read more

Day 11: In  Which Bruce Drops Out The plan this day was to drive across Yellowstone, out Cody, and on down towards Denver, stopping at some ill-defined point along the way for the night. However, when I arrived at Three Bear Lodge for another coupon-discounted breakfast with Bruce, I found...Read more

Day 10: Resting Up a Bit I’m an active Mormon, and besides, Bruce and I were both a bit beat up after the last two or three days, so we took it a bit easier this Sunday. Bruce very kindly helped me locate a Mormon church in the area using...Read more

Day 9: Geysers! I was getting tired of oatmeal, so when Bruce mentioned that he had some extra discount coupons for Three Bear Lodge in West Yellowstone, I accepted his suggestion that we get a good breakfast. I got a fairly decent omelet, some cottage cheese (which the waitress very...Read more

Day 8: Craters of the Moon! We chose July 4 for Craters of the Moon on the theory that Yellowstone would be a madhouse on the holiday. Actually, the weekend crowds were never that bad, but it still seemed a good choice of day for a non-Yellowstone adventure. Since we...Read more

Day 7: First full day in Yellowstone At about 5:30 AM I discovered that my campground had its own unkindness of ravens, and they called roll every morning at that ghastly hour. On balance, I probably prefer roosters. The ravens apparently wake some nearby cows, who begin lowing. It worked...Read more

Day 3: Ahhhhhh My whole family and I are active Mormons, so Sunday I attended church with my sister. Much of the meetings revolved around the experiences the teenagers had the week before reenacting the story of two handcart companies that got caught in a blizzard in Wyoming while trying...Read more