Denver 2006
Since I drove out to Denver, I decided to stay out west for a while and see some of the sights, as well as add a few more states to my visited list. My original plan was to head up to Montana for the Little Big Horn Battlefield National Memorial, next to North Dakota and see the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, then drop down to South Dakota for some time the Badlands and the Wind Cave National Parks.
I discovered that when I am Making It Up As I Go, and do not have a firm deadline, I tend to want to keep going.I was driving through some of the most beautiful scenery in the world, with plenty of new things to see just over the next hill. Or mountain. Or the occasional valley. It was a choice between seeing a few things very well, or many things for just a little while. Too long at home, enjoying driving, along with a desire to see as much as possible kept me moving right along. Not the best way to really learn about a particular place or people, but for me it worked on this trip.
When all was said and done, at the end of the trip there were some places I wish I had stayed a little longer, and I ended up missing one place (Glacier National Park) that I really wanted to see. But as you can see from the map of my trip, I did see plenty of other places.
- Bear Lake Hike - Short drive the first day our from the con, but a 4 mile hike to make up for it. Visited Rocky Mountain National Park
- Driving through Wyoming & Utah - I was distracted from my original plan, twice. Visited Dinosaur National Monument
- Idaho scenery - Idaho looks like a fun place to visit, before heading back to Wyoming. Visited Hagerman Fossil Bed National Monument and Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve
- More fossils and scenery - Finally got to Fossil Butte and discovered a nice place to visit at the side of the rode. Visited Fossil Butte National Monument.
- Grand Teton - Lots of pretty mountains and some wildlife. Visited Grand Teton National Park.
- Yellowstone National Park - Yes, including Old Faithful and bison. Visited Yellowstone National Park.
- Little Big Horn NM to Theodore Roosevelt NP - history and nature, both worth seeing. Visited Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument and Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
- Crazy Horse & Wind Cave - A short visit to a private monument and a national park. Visited the Crazy Horse Memorial and Wind Cave National Park.
- From Badlands to Wetlands - Driving through Badlands National Park in South Dakota and Effigy Mounds National Monument in Idaho.
That is it for my trip. I have many more picture, some duplicates of what is posted here, with slightly different settings. Others of different things that I didn't feel worked, some just bad pictures. The one thing that is true about digital is you can take a lot of pictures very quickly. That is good since you can try many times to get a good shot, but it also meanst you end up with a lot of pictures to go through trying to find the best.
It was a very good trip for me. I met some good people, a couple of which I hope to be good friends with. I saw beautiful scenery, covering everything from desert to forest to lava fields. I spent far too much money on the trip, but I would do it again. The chance to see things that most people never have the chance to made it all worthwhile.
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