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The sublime and the absurd
First a few photos of scenes from along the way… Today was a fairly long day for old guys. We left the RV location for the closest attraction to our RV park yet – the Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site. This is a working cattle ranch with a fascinating history – created, originally, by immigrants…
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Go Directly to Jail!
First a few photos of scenes from along the way… Our trip from West Yellowstone to Deer Lodge made for a long but fun day in Montana. We started out to cloudy skies but no rain in our campground. We were impressed with the place given that it was in an urban location – the…
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How Clean Is Clean?
First a few photos of scenes along the way… After our second night in Twin Falls, it was time to leave our somewhat-better-than average campground for West Yellowstone, MT. Hopefully our plan change would minimize the time spent in cold rain. After a fairly lazy morning we headed out for our first stop – The…
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Twin Falls – Take Two
First a few photos of scenes along the way… Today was the second time we made a serious deviation from our travel plan. The first was when we aborted the Hatteras Ferry crossing due to high winds that canceled all trips. We had planned to head to West Yellowstone for two days of exploring that…
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Crash, Bang, Boom (no injuries)
The day started early with breakfast then email and business meetings. At about 9:15AM PDT, we departed Wells for points North. As we entered Idaho we returned to Mountain time. Our destination was Twin Falls, Idaho, where we planned to see several sites. The first was Herrett Center at the College of Southern Idaho. It…
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Magnificent Organ, Rain on the Salt Flats
We awoke to nice showers in the bathhouse and breakfast using the food from the Walmart run. We had long planned to see the organ recital at the Mormon Tabernacle. Tom sent Scott the YouTube video beforehand, but he did not watch it. The night before Tom found the Land Cruiser Heritage Museum and we…
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Locked Out – Lucked Out
The first day of the OWGRV Northwest Corner trip went smoothly – sort of. Nathaniel Guest drove us to the airport with plenty of time. Flight was projected to leave on time and arrive early. We got our first-class upgrades. Everything went smoothly until we were taxiing for takeoff when Tom said. That meant that…
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Time for a new drone anyway
This was our last full day of our OWGRV adventure. Tomorrow we take Khan and Polo to our storage location near the Salt Lake City airport, and spend the night in an airport hotel. On Wednesday we all fly home – Tom and Scott fly early; Steve’s flight is around noon. Last night we reserved…
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Steep Jeep and Pizza
We had a fairly short ride to our next campsite at Flaming Gorge / Manila KOA , so we decided to do some off-roading on BLM lands near our Vernal, UT campsite. The day before Tom noticed a very steep jeep trail up a mountain that he thought we might try. We pulled off the…
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Scott in the Slammer
We woke up fairly early at the Riverbend RV Park and we all had a fresh-cooked egg breakfast. Scott researched nearby museums and came across the Museum of the Mountain West , which opened at 8:30AM – early for us to see it before leaving our campsite. Steve declared there was nothing in a museum…
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Aminas Forks
The day stated with the kind of senior moments the three OWGs are learning to live with. First Scott complained loudly that someone must have taken his toothbrush holder while he was brushing his teeth. Steve and Scott searched for a while before Scott found the holder in his pocket (which, “he had never done…
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Historic Trains and Hot Tubs
Today was our first full day with our third OWG, Steve Van Meter. We departed from our HTR campground for the nearby Durango and Silverton train yard in downtown Durango. We had hoped for an upgrade that our friend Nathaniel Guest had been working on tourist railroad -to- tourist railroad with the reservations guy at…