Was a definite shock tho, after spending this month boouncing around Colo, Wyo, Utah, Idaho, and Wash state, warms my heart to see green! This is Ladd- I84 between Meacham and Pendleton, Oregon
Lovely Gardens I see
Even the redbuds are blooming! I thought I wouldn't see Spring this year til summer was in full blast...Soldier Summit Us 6 south of Provo, Utah on my way home
Price, Utah dropping even further south, but not out of the heights yet, a Gorgeous drive
Moab, Utah. I think everyone in the state was out to enjoy the warmer weather, but I would consider this area to be 'zone challenged' even so...
One more, a rest area famous indeed, chuckl, Hole in the Wall, close to Window Rock...still in Utah.
You make my teeth ache to be back on the road in my 18 wheeler . Too old and different D H now but I never got tired of seeing what was on the other side of the hill , or what was around the next curve . Have to settle for vacation trips and Colorado will be the ticket in July .
Coldest wind I ever felt was in Utah , after stopping to walk the dogs . It froze before it hit the ground . lol
Thanks for the photos . Great ! .
hehehe, I wonder how to quit someties!!! Snoqualmie Pass I84 Washington state. Had fresh Jazz apples from Fred Meyers to munch on
Sliding thru the pass tween storms, and avalanche controls and lucking out at NOT chaining up!!! This is Ooops! Snoqualmie is I90, did that up there too, rats. This is Hood River just east of Dufor, Ore heading toward Portland and this is the stands of what I guess are river birches planted east of The Dalles, ON I84! These days they have as many wind fan 'stands' as 1000 Palms, and Wash says they prefer their river generators.
Didn't see that lake on Snoqualmie ! They held us up at the top and stll had to put on chains .The most memorable was the HUGH tree trunks on the side of the road and the lit up ski areas on the left . It was so quiet , the only sound was a trucker coming up saying he was spinning rubber and "Give me a nudge" They had those concrete barriers between the lanes of trafficup and down covered with snow . Black as pitch that night and so beautiful, no wonder I missed that lake .At that time , we was in a mobile home toter , bobtail, coming out of Browning , Mt .That was in the seventies
Keep posting those pictures , I love them and wish I had digital back then .The East is pretty , but the wild of the West is my love .
The lake is one of the chain up areas for us, but its on top, maybe a chain down? area, The pass was behind me there. This was going down the pass at dusk, looking for my pillow at North Bend, Wa and a steak...Wenatchi National Forest, Snoqualmie Pass and ski slopes
This is the sunset above that same pass,
1 more of that same mountain pass, always loved Snoqualmie, couldn't pay me to live there
I guess the reason I didn't see the lake was , there was so much snow , it looked like a big snow covered pasture . giggle
I would like to have a camper on the back of our 4cylinder pickup and spend the year just traveling the back roads and hiways in the west, sleeping in the back , camping out , and seeing God's creations .Probably ought to opt for at least a 6 cylinder for the mountains , forgive me , I was thinking of the fuel prices .
sigh, fuel prices are four letter words these days. This is in Arizona, just west of Phoenix-a place I still remember as Rip's, chuckle, It would amaze you at how huge Quartszite has grown, not just half a mile of town, but both sides of the road and halfway up the hill!!!!
My dad has always had a traveling bug too, he rented a van that was outfitted with kitchen, bunks, private, narrow, but better than the coffin sleepers we had in the 70's WITH amenities, and drove himself. He turned 80 last month. hmmm, I think this is Idaho- tween Twin Falls and Utah state line I84
Lived in Ca. and Nevada most of my life so went to everyone of the places you have in the pics was very fortunate to work long enough at a 2 companies to get into that 3-4 and 4-5 vacations weeks so went to the tourist spots untill later in my life when I caught desert fever and beat around every dirt road I could in Nevada
I spent some time in Quartzite a few years ago , on the Cal. side .Overlooking Q. the lights of town and the traffic up and down the moutain on the east side was breathtaking at night.
Gotta run into town , see you in a few hours .