• RV West 2006

    The 5th Wheel belongs to Jim and Carol, the Motor Home is ours. (Photo taken just north of Monument Valley)

    Departing Tacoma, Washington State, 14 September 2006
    Carol and Laveta – Coeur D’ Alene, Idaho
    At the Continental Divide, Wyoming
    Bear genitalia (at our RV park in West Yellowstone)
    Old Faithful– 15 minutes late
    Bison fording the Yellowstone River
    Mt. Rushmore National Monument
    Laveta- near the entrance of Wind Cave National Park, SD
    The Crazy Horse monument, under construction, Black Hills, SD
    Me- Rapid City, South Dakota
    A Picnic with Obi-Wan (Jim) in the Black Hills
    The Devil’s Tower Wyoming We hiked all the way around.
    Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs
    Hats: Me, Laveta, Carol, Jim – Colorado Springs
    Pikes Peak via cog train, Colorado Springs
    St. Francis Cathedral and downtown art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
    Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico
    Laveta & Fat Man, Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos
    AT-400A Pit storage-transportation container cutaway, Los Alamos
    Rest stop near Lemitar, New Mexico
    Mission San Miguel, Socorro
    At the Owl Bar & Grill, San Antonio, New Mexico
    RV life, San Antonio
    Carol, Lincoln County New Mexico (home of Billy the Kid)
    ` Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico.
    We walked down and around- about 2 1/2 hours, then took the elevator (750 ft.) back to the surface.
    Texas is not the issue here (GWB is)
    Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas
    Wow- no feet! White Sands National Monument, NM
    Me and Laveta again- White Sands
    The Trinity Site (in White Sands Missile Range New Mexico) where the first nuclear explosion
    took place, on 16 July,1945. It’s only open to the public two days a year.
    The House is The McDonald ranch house where the Plutonium pit was assembled with its initiator
    (neutron generator) There was lots of security at the site- guess they didn’t want anyone to get lost.
    Thunderstorm, near four-corners, Colorado (one handed shot while driving)
    Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
    Arches National Park, Utah
    The just magnificent, Monument Valley, Navajo Nation, Arizona
    Brice Canyon National Park, Utah The geological features are called "Hoodoos"
    Zion National Park Utah.
    Jim – early morning, Ely Nevada
    On US-50, Nevada.
    Burns RV Park and adjacent (across the street) countryside, Burns Oregon.
    The Three Sisters (& Jim’s trailer) on Hwy-20, Oregon
    Bridge over the Columbia at our RV park, The Dales, Oregon

    —-We arrived back home in Tacoma (University Place) on 22 October 2006—

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