The Internet does not exist in the Western US

OK, so I've decided that there is no Internet access west of our great state of Iowa. Here's a teaser sample of the 2000 or so pictures we took on the trip. Thanks for you patience!

We drove about 5500 miles over two and a half weeks. For those keeping score, that is the petroleum industry 250 (gallons of gas), and Tim 0. We drove through Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, California, and Kansas. We visited six national parks: Redwood National Park in California, Great Basin National Park in Nevada, Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park in Utah, and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument and Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. We endured a rain storm, a wind storm, a snow storm, and a sand storm. We had a great time, and even listened to two complete audio books on the drive.

For anyone interested in a more complete account of the voyage, we'll have to get together and chat sometime. We are going to attempt to pare down the photos to an endurable slide show of something less than 1000 pictures! :)

Well, now we are back and have Internet access. That is nice. But boy, we certainly did have a good time out there in the middle of nowhere... We drove through a lot of really uninhabited space out there and saw many freaks of nature that prove the creativity of God. You never know what you will run into next: salt flats as far as the eye can see; enormous redwood trees thousands of years old; ghost towns that tell the story of the gold and silver rushes of the late 1800s and early 1900s; delicately decorated cave walls; red sandstone arch formations hundreds of feet tall; expansive canyons stretching the imagination in both width and depth; gigantic 700 foot sand dunes. Amazing!