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Last Week Of Travel

Spent a week in Cache Valley with family and had a great Fuhriman Family Reunion. Then on the way back home to Oregon we spent a night in Baker City, OR and finally visited the Oregon Trail Museum. Then the next day we picked up son Darin at the airport as he flew back from the reunion, dropped him off in Corvallis and arrived back home safe and sound, over 8,000 miles and 40 days later. Found everything at home in great shape and my flowers looked wonderful!

A Rest From Travel For A While

From Vernal, UT to Flaming Gorge (above)
And past Bear Lake, UT, (below) to finally rest
for a season in Providence, UT.

Here's some of the flowers on the streets of Vernal, UT

Looking down on the road coming across CO

from Grand Junction up to Vernal

We had a great day today, as we went to see the Gunnison Black Canyon National Park. It was just a few miles from Montrose, CO where we stayed last night, and after seeing it we are amazed that we had never heard of it before, and that there is not more advertized about it.

These photos don't really show the true colors as it was morning and we were taking into the sun for most of the canyon. Then we drove up through Colorado on Hwy 139 through another amazing mountain pass, and then into Vernal Ut. In Vernal I was impressed with the beautiful flower baskets and tubs that were EVERYWHERE all through town, in the parks, in front of the Motels, etc. etc. and they were all the same colors and the whole place smelled wonderful. We saw two of the watering trucks that keep them looking so beautiful and they were on both sides of the street for 4 miles.

Royal Gorge Train Ride

We spent the morning taking the Royal Gorge Train
trip and it was a visual treat, and as you can see
the rafters were having a great time also.


This is the Gorge Bridge and although we didn't
walk across it when we left the train it was
still quite impressive just seeing it from the
bottom up,


The only way through the gorge is by train
or rafting the river, so you have the sheer
rock cliffs on one side and the river on the
other side as you go through.

Look familiar?

I've seen him wearing these for so long I just
couldn't resisit taking this photo!

Finally we get to see Mountains!

When we finally got into Colorado and saw
mountains it was like coming home after all the
flat land and trees everywhere. So of course
we had to drive up Pikes Peak, all 1400 feet and
at times the road looked like it just dropped off
before it took another hairpin turn. It was
beautiful, and if you don't like heights you wouldn't
have liked the drive up and back.