Just Two Nerds

Yeah, for the first time ever on a big trip, Louisa and I forgot to bring our camera. 
We had a great time away from the big city however.  Estes Park and Rocky Mountain N.P. are definitely great vacation spots and great wildlife viewing spots.  On this trip we saw a bull mouse, a [...]

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A few weeks ago during the middle of the week we started talking about what to do over the weekend.  We decided that we’d never seen the Grand Canyon (the last time we were in Phoenix there were 2 feet of snow in that part of the state), booked the tickets, and left for Phoenix [...]

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Yep, we have visited Dinosaur Ridge for our first big hike of the year. For this hike, we started at the parking lot for the visitor’s center at the base of the ridge (about 5900 ft of elevation) and continued past the fossils to the stairway/ramp to the top of the ridge. We [...]

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This morning and early afternoon was our last day at Yellowstone. We decided to spend it at the Old Faithful area. We enjoyed watching Old Faithful erupt, and then wandered around the boardwalk to look at the rest of the thermal features. We got to see a lot of other geysers give [...]

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Today was pretty busy as we decided to venture to the Northern areas of the park. In theory, these areas were supposed to be less crowded. As we all know, one of the key features of a theory is that it is not proved.

Our first stop was at Yellowstone Canyon, in the heart [...]

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