Lisa
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Travel Cats!
This is me in the brown bed and my sister, Catnip, asleep on the rug in our kennel. We likes Usain best when not in motion. When we have travels, our humans put up this safety kennel. If they don’t, or even try to leave the kennel door open, we gets scared and comes up…
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Bucket List Item – The Great Salt Lake
Antelope Island State Park in the Great Salt Lake is our next place to camp. Our first adventure was to walk to the water’s edge from our campsite. It’s now a 15 minute walk from the previous shoreline. The lake is definitely shrinking still, in spite of the higher than normal snowfall this year. We…
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Ft. Bridger, WY
We stopped at the state historical site after our stay at the Ft. Bridger RV Park, which was a very nice place for us to overnight. The tour of the fort is very interesting. They have marked out on the ground where buildings used to be that are no longer here. Several are still in…
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Trona but were Afraid to Ask
We had some time, so we drove through the town of Green River just off I-80. They had a lovely, free museum that had a big statue out front. We were the only ones there for a tour reading excerpts from John Wesley Powell’s (the statue out front) diary about his armchair boat and exploration…
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Another BLM Dispersed Camping Spot
We moved on at Tony’s suggestion to another BLM site on Middle Baxter Road outside of Rock Springs, WY. No great hikes this time. Simplot, a phosphate plant manufacturing fertilizer was up on the ridge behind us so there were lots of trucks on the road. It was not an exciting place to be, but…
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The Definition of Vista!
We hiked up the “Jeep” path at Rim Lake, that doesn’t look safe for Jeeps anymore. There was lots of erosion. Then we continued along the ridge. There were spring flowers, sagebrush, and rocks with lichen everywhere. The views were absolutely amazing—hills, valleys, and snow-capped mountains in the distance. Evidence of humans is apparent everywhere.…
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Melting Snow Still Here
Our intended BLM campsite (Teton Reservoir) was closed so we stayed in the Rim Lake Recreation Area close by. This BLM land has no charge to stay, and we are dispersed camping. We are the only people here for the night. There were two hikers waiting out the rain in the bathroom (gross), but they…
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Our family loves to play games
We played cribbage and dominoes each evening. Dad had a perfect record at Mexican Train while the best cribbage match had to be when I skunked them both.
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Cats in Ft. Collins
Catnip and Primrose spent their first day in Dad’s house in our guest bedroom upstairs while we did our best to kitty-proof the house. We moved plants and shut off the master suite and office to protect plants and cords from little, sharp teeth. Primrose is an expert door-opener, so we mostly kept her away…
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Grad party!
We are terrible at getting pictures sometimes, or at least I am. Tony managed to get one shot of the grad party for Arabella and Natasha. Tony and I helped as the boss (aka Susie) directed:) It as a perfect day for an outdoor party and lots of friends and family were able to come.…