After a short ride from Durango to Mesa Verde, we visited the Visitor Center to buy our ticked for a tour. We chose to do the Cliff Palace tour, because we weren’t sure if Cole could make it on the advanced strenuous Balcony House. After doing Cliff Palace, I think he could have done Balcony…
Wednesday, June 18th – Long Day of Driving Today was a long day of driving… We drove from Mount Rushmore to Colorado Springs… It was a very long day in the car…we did make it to the hotel a bit early, so the kids had plenty of chance to swim in the nice heated pool….
We wanted to visit Sylvan Lake, because we saw it in a movie (see below), and it was so beautiful. We inadvertently hiked the Lake trail, around Sylvan Lake, and it was beautiful from all angles. The kids especially loved crossing the water to the dam to throw sticks down the waterfall. The water was…
We spent the day in the Mount Rushmore / Black Hills area. I can honestly say I love this area, and we haven’t even done a 1/4 of the things to do here! Of course one of the main attractions was Mt. Rushmore itself. Walking up to see Mount Rushmore is amazing. The Avenue of…
Alright, I know I’m a baaaaaad blogger! Here it is 2 months after our vacation, and I’m still trying to get up posts from our vacation! Time has gone too quickly!! This day, the only planned stop was to be Devils Tower, but after looking at the map, we saw that we’d drive right past…
Yellowstone National Park is an absolutely amazing place. It is so beautiful, and takes on many faces as you travel the figure eight loop road. Yellowstone is a place of natural wonder and majestic beauty. Rolling hills and mountains, raging rivers and waterfalls, luscious fields and forests… Yellowstone has it all! The enormous Yellowstone Lake…
Our Snake River tours were at 12:30 so we decided to stay in Jackson Hole for the morning to take a look around. Definitely a very touristy place, but we really liked it. Jackson Hole is approximately an hour from Yellowstone, with a beautiful drive through the Grand Teton National Park to get to Yellowstone….
We are finally home (and recovered) from our 10 day, 3000 mile trip. It was an awesome trip, and we would totally do it again. It’s taken awhile to sort through the pictures, and get them uploaded..so sorry for the almost 2 week delay in getting these pictures and posts up. I wrote these blogs…