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Day 11 – Touring Arches NP

Terrain  & Route Map, Moab to Rile, Colorado Today would be a mixed day – we spend the morning and early afternoon exploring Arches National Park, just outside of town. This park, like yesterday’s Canyonlands, has interesting, somewhat unique visual…
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Day 9 – Phamily Pharm Phun

We got up around 6:30 am on Saturday, and it was already devilishly hot out. The smoke from the brush fires all up and down the valley hung heavy and dark just above the horizon, and the campfire smell was…
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Day 8 – Leaving Salt Lake City, and south to Mona

Route Map, Friday – Salt Lake City to Mona Day 8 – Friday – we head south from Salt Lake City We didn’t need to be at the convention until noon, so we spent the morning at the KOA swimmin’…
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Day 7 – A Capital Idea, old man!

Thursday, Melissa decided there wasn’t much at the convention that we’d driven 2200 miles to attend that really interested her, so she and I toured SLC, much like I’d done the day before. Hal took the RV to someplace for…
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Day 6 – Adrift in the Sea of Mormon

The day before, after we’d arrived at the KOA, it was decided that we’d rent a car for a couple of days to make it easier to get around. After we got the RV settled in and all, I contacted…
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Day 5 – Touring Antelope Island, and Salt Lake City 25 June 2012

Route Map, Ogden, Antelope Island, and Salt Lake City   Touristing on Antelope Island We actually slept in a bit on Tuesday – it was nearly 7am when I got up and made coffee.  I took a walk around the…
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Day 4 – Laramie to Ogden 25 June 2012

Terrain & Route Map, Laramie to Ogden Day 4 – Ahhh, the woodsy smell of camp fires and exploding coffee makers… The smoky air woke me up in Laramie around 5:30 am. Even with the A/C more or less working…
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Vacation 2012 – West to Utah and the Promised Land

Westward Ha! – Innocents on the Road to Perdition In the summer of 2012, we embarked on a near-cross country journey in a 24 year old Fleetwood Bounder motor home. I, my wife Melissa, and her older brother Howell (‘Hal’)…
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