Laptop's Quick Cam Photos of Wild West 98 Vacation

Last updated on September 5, 1998

Day 1 - Hopkinsville, KY

View from our hotel room.

The indoor pool and the jacuzzi. Keep on trucking through this farm country.

Day 2 - St. Louis, MO

Went on tour through the arch. Celluloid to follow. One very big river, the Mississippi.

Day 3 - South Dakota - American Mid-West

A field of sunflowers stretching out to the horizon. Found this example of the Great Plains near dusk.

Day 4 - Black Hills of SD and Devils Tower

Cost $8.00 to park here at Mt. Rushmore. We spent the night here at Devil's Tower. Over 1,000 climbers attempt to reach this summit each year. We managed to ride our bicycles to the base.

Day 5 through 9 - Yellowstone National Park

This buffalo broke loose from the heard to say hello. This family of moose were grazing next to the road.
An Elk grazing by the side of the road. Valley near Roosevelt Lodge.
Mountains of Montana near North entrance. My son Matt standing next to Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
Our campsite next to Yellowstone Lake at Bridge Bay. View of lake when we were leaving. It was dark because the rain set in.
Gibbon Falls near Madison. The road crew who are bringing you this show. Matt does most of the work. He is navigator, and operates both the computer and camera.

Sorry we didn't share any pictures of the geysers. We have them on video. They can only really be appreciated in person.

Day 10 - Grand Teton National Park to Salt Lake

The Grand Teton partially obscured by clouds Dusk over Salt Lake City. It was raining rainbows.

Day 11 - On the way to Bryce Canyon

The Red Canyon on the way to Bryce Canyon. Everywhere rock table precariously perched.
Old West Town at entrance to Bryce Canyon. Butte South of Bryce Canyon, near Tropic, Utah.

We hiked down into the canyon and became so enveloped in the landscape we missed our reservation at the Grand Canyon. Sorry, we couldn't bring you picture from inside the canyon. Didn't consider bringing the laptop along. You can get really close and intimate with the landscape and wild life at Bryce Canyon National Park by hiking in and around all the convolutions. There is something new at every turn. I could have taken a hundred pictures. Later, the Grand Canyon felt like a one shot photo stop by comparison.

Day 12 - Leaving Bryce Canyon.

Natural Bridge in Bryce Canyon. A nibble from one of the top views at Bryce Canyon.

Day 13 - The Grand Canyon and Arizona

The Grand Canyon near our campsite at Mather. Extreme North end of the canyon.
Found both of our rainbows at Meteor Crater. Tree growing in boulders near Meteor Crater.

Day 14 - On our way home through AZ, NM and TX.

Missed getting a picture of Saguaro Cactus. These famed two armed cactus only exist near Tucson. They dot the hills there like trees do in other places.

Unfortunately, the temperature was 108 degrees in the shade at mid-day when we arrived in Tucson. We were anxious to leave and did not stop to take a picture. The A/C did not cut it under these conditions. So hot, people did not drive the speed limit, in fear that they would overheat their automobiles.
Mountains of boulders at rest area East of Tucson.

The next day, we drove from El Paso to Dallas. On the way we paid a visit to the Old West Museum in Pecos, Texas. There we filled our cup with this last bit of cowboy trivia before we left the OleWest.

Just in case you are interested, there is a copy of the Jersey Lilly Saloon, Judge Roy Bean's Courthouse, at the West of the Pecos Museum in Pecos, Texas. If you want to see the real thing though (photo below) you need to travel about 150 miles South to Langtry, Texas. The story about the old man as depicted in the movie movie by the same name completely true. The land between the Pecos and Midland, Texas is full of oil wells. They dot the landscape like trees do on the East Coast.

On the last day of our trip, we drove 750 miles from Dallas to Atlanta, covering 5 states in one day. There didn't seem to be any point in hanging around. Nothing East of the Mississippi measured up to the sights we had seen over the past two weeks.

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The wagon that made this trip possible.  A 1984 Toyota Truck with 210K miles.

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