This years summer vacation

[89th]

You’ll enjoy the evening drives as the sun is behind you… good luck!

[89th]

Scott’s Bluff. Love the pilgrimage reason, school reports stick with you. I still recall my Magellan report from 3rd grade clearly.

Anyway I think Chimney Rock is nearby. If you like golf, on the east end of the state near Souix City is a new course called Landmand.

[LuFins Dad]

Are you looking for specific small towns to stay in?

[LuFins Dad]

If you want to cut south just a little bit, there’s Winchester, VA. It’s an old Appalachian coal town that’s been revitalized. You’ll see a great downtown with some very nice restaurants and likely some excellent B&Bs, and in a 10 minute drive you are in rolling hills farm/orchard country. There’s also an excellent music conservatory in town that might have a summer series, but if not, you ought to be able to find some bluegrass in the area…

[LuFins Dad]

And if you cut anywhere in the SW PA, Western MD, or Winchester areas, I am sure that @Aqua-Letifer and I would be willing to make a drive out to meet you and the the Mrs. Bach.

Oh, and an interesting side note… Between SW PA, through Winchester is about the only place in the US where you will find still running Drive In Theaters…

[Mik]

We have some.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in This years summer vacation:

We have some.

Yeah, but they have all those XXX s over the signs, so I don’t count those.

[Mik]

Nope. Family entertainment.

[taiwan_girl]

@bachophile Sounds like a fun trip!!! Enjoy!!

[bachophile]

I’m not going to bombard you with endless pictures but I’ll post occasionally as we make our way across to the east.

The w/e was spent with family in SF and today was the first real traveling day. So you have the classic pic up Yosemite valley.

Snake ID anyone? Crossed our path while hiking under half dome. It looked like it had a rattler tail, but didn’t seem to me to have the classic viper triangular head so I have no idea what it was.

[George K]

@bachophile said in This years summer vacation:

bombard you with endless pictures

Please do!

We love them!

My travels across the great plains are restricted to two trips with my parents when I was in my late teens - yeah, figure it out.

However, I was awed by the gorgeous barrenness of the plains of North Dakota and Eastern Montana when we rode the Empire Builder. There is so much "there" not there. I kept thinking about the reaction of Lewis and Clark when they saw these endless vistas of...nothing.

Scary, empty, awesome, and in their own way, beautiful.

More pics, please?

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in This years summer vacation:

Please do!

We love them!

+1

[bachophile]

Yosemite falls

El Capitan

Gives new meaning to Alex Honold’s free solo climb

[bachophile]

Still waiting if someone can give me a snake ID

[Renauda]

@bachophile

To me it looks like a gopher snake. Non venomous. Fairly common here in southern Alberta around Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. Often mistaken for a rattler.

[bachophile]

Today was sequoia national forest day.

I bet u didn’t know that sequoia has 5 vowels

[LuFins Dad]

Beautiful.

[jon-nyc]

Nice. I considered making my way there in August, it would even give me an excuse to get some meth in Bakersfield, but decided against it. We will see some Redwoods somewhere.

[bachophile]

Coming to you from Mexican Hat Utah

This is the view from the motel room overlooking the San Juan River just outside of monument valley

Thats monument valley, recognize the scene from Forest Gump?

Glen canyon dam

And downstream from the dam, the Colorado eventually feeding into the Grand Canyon

Tomorrow into the Rockies and Colorado.

[bachophile]

Better dam pictures. Damn it’s nice.