100-Day Trip: August 2015

I picked up Karin at Salt Lake City. (I'm getting good at "stealth" boondocking in airport economy lots.)  We had a great visit camping in Bob Lutnicki's driveway in Park City, in time to see the finish of the Tour of Utah bicycle race:

We visited her college friends in Driggs, Idaho and spent four days in Yellowstone and the Tetons, meeting other Wells College friends for supper to compare notes in three different lodges in the area.

We saw three geysers. The most impressive was the Beehive, very near Old Faithful

No bears but plenty of other critters.

Hayden Valley traffic

Sally, Karin and Hanley at Lake Lodge, near Fishing Bridge 

I dropped Karin off at SLC and headed for Dinosaur National Monument, on the Colorado border

The Monument is near Vernal Utah, which has an excellent museum and several street dinos:

Vernal also has over 200 huge petunia plantings:

Also nearby is Nine-Mile Canyon famous for the "Hunt" petroglyph.  My favorite is this combination of pictograph (in color), 19th-century graffiti and the "Pregnant Bison" petrogryph

Over the Rockies west of Estes Park. The Cruiser ran fine more than two miles up:

I enjoyed driving across the mid-West avoiding interstates as much as possible. In Wisconsin, I camped at the EAA museum in Oshkosh

EAA houses one of the few remaining Mosquito fighter/bombers (thanks, Kermit Weeks!); my Godfather flew these as navigator in WWII. Navigators were colloquially know as "Alligators".

Driving through Columbus, Wisconsin, I glimpsed one of Louis Sullivan's "jewel-box" banks down a side street.  A couple of turns yielded the rewards of driving a small RV on back roads, plus having taken Vincent Scully's modern architecture course at college.