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It is with some melancholy that we arrive back home.  It was a good vacation, and we safely made it half way across the states and back.  We got a very excited welcome from the dog, Pepper, and a general “Who Cares” greeting from the cat, Turbo.  Our house was clean, and [...]

This evening we are staying in Provo, Utah.  Home to BYU, I can’t help but think of my friend Ben who would wear a BYU hat, and one of those “Elder” name tags that the Mormon missionaries get, into the dorms at Multnomah.  He would then have hours of fun trying to proselytize [...]

One thing you find yourself thinking about on a road trip is the question, “Why did this town spring up here in the middle of no where.  We slept in the town of Cortez the previous evening, and that was all I could think about.  Why here?  Moab is kind of the [...]

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Yesterday we left Ouray, and headed over another amazing road – Highway 550 that runs from Ouray to Durango.  Sometimes called the Million Dollar Highway, it is one of those drives that takes longer than it should.  It seemed we were stopping [...]

We spent the morning exploring the shops of Georgetown, and touring the Hotel de Paris.  The hotel was founded in this silver mining town in 1874 by Louis Dupuy.  Dupuy was a French man who ended up in Georgetown in the early 1870’s, and set out to work the silver mines in the [...]