x2... except I took in all the sights over lunch today.
What a great trip. :smiley_clap:
Really glad to hear you had a good time out there Jim. I can't wait for the chance to head out to Colorado some day. Thanks for sharing your trip with us.
x2... except I took in all the sights over lunch today.
What a great trip. :smiley_clap:
Really glad to hear you had a good time out there Jim. I can't wait for the chance to head out to Colorado some day. Thanks for sharing your trip with us.
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buckbuster217
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some really beautiful pics and a great story to go with them, I would really like to do what you did Jim and go to see all of that, it has to be a trip of a lifetime and something I think everyone should do
Hahahaha! Hey Jim, did you borrow the salmon colored shirt from your buddy on "the place to never be named"?I have looked at the pictures quite a few times now.
LOL! It never crossed my mind.
Thanks Guys. It was hypnotic. Just an amazing place to get lost.
Bowhunter57
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CJD3,
Been there, seen that and would go again, in a heart beat. The landscape, wildlife, etc. is breath taking. Actually, my wife and I are going the 3rd week of July, to see our twin granddaughters.
I've been to Arizona's Painted Desert and spent the night in St. Michael's Motel (The original register is on display with Wyatt Earp & Doc Holiday's signatures.), in Sedona. Visited Yellowstone Nat. Park 2x, in Wyoming, went to Glacier National Park, in Montana, seen the Black Hills in the Dakotas. Love it!
Like you...I wish I could live there, but I'm stuck here in flatter-than-a-road-killed-squirrel Ohio. :smiley_depressive:
Bowhunter57
Been there, seen that and would go again, in a heart beat. The landscape, wildlife, etc. is breath taking. Actually, my wife and I are going the 3rd week of July, to see our twin granddaughters.
I've been to Arizona's Painted Desert and spent the night in St. Michael's Motel (The original register is on display with Wyatt Earp & Doc Holiday's signatures.), in Sedona. Visited Yellowstone Nat. Park 2x, in Wyoming, went to Glacier National Park, in Montana, seen the Black Hills in the Dakotas. Love it!
Like you...I wish I could live there, but I'm stuck here in flatter-than-a-road-killed-squirrel Ohio. :smiley_depressive:
Bowhunter57
Archertl
Senior Member
Thanks Guys!
... You think Ohio is flat. Once I got past Chicago, it got flat! Or at least I thought it got flat... A day of that and I decided that "No. after driving all day through Illinois and Iowa, they are kinda rolling... Now Nebraska is friggen parking lot flat!"
One last one of the "river Road" Chad took from his phone.
... You think Ohio is flat. Once I got past Chicago, it got flat! Or at least I thought it got flat... A day of that and I decided that "No. after driving all day through Illinois and Iowa, they are kinda rolling... Now Nebraska is friggen parking lot flat!"
One last one of the "river Road" Chad took from his phone.
Man, that looks like an awesome trip! Thanks for taking lots of pictures to share with you brothers!
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Nebraska is a bit flat, but I'd move there in a minute given the opportunity- as long as I could live along the North Platte! If you ever travel 80 in November, you'd see why I say that. Anytime the interstate crosses over, or is close to the river, you have to dodge deer, and the remains of the unlucky ones. NE is unreal...heaven for a sportsman.Thanks Guys!
... You think Ohio is flat. Once I got past Chicago, it got flat! Or at least I thought it got flat... A day of that and I decided that "No. after driving all day through Illinois and Iowa, they are kinda rolling... Now Nebraska is friggen parking lot flat!"
One last one of the "river Road" Chad took from his phone.
Man that just looks like it was an amazing trip, Jim! Thanks for sharing the story and pics. I can't wait for my first trip out west this fall!
Ohiosam
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Great pics Jim!! Glad you got to go on a nice trip.
As far as flat goes I was talking to a rice farmer once in Jonesboro Arkansas and he was complaining his 100 acre field was 12 inches high in the middle.
As far as flat goes I was talking to a rice farmer once in Jonesboro Arkansas and he was complaining his 100 acre field was 12 inches high in the middle.
Jim, I spent the night in Grand Junction back on memorial day weekend in 88, that area was very pretty and lots of nice scenery and lots of wildlife.... Snowed a lot that weekend and thet's why we stopped for the night..... Roads were horrible and that surpized me for that late in the year.....
I bet J!
... Speaking of winter driving.
Thats another thing you should know if you have never driven out that way in the fall/winter weather GUYS.
I-80 has a couple of road signs out in Nebraska that I was not use to seeing here in Ohio. I started to notice these "wind socks" (just like at the airport) on about 15-20 foot poles at every overpass we drove over as most local roads went under us when we crossed paths.(such as at an exit) Their purpose it to give drivers, esp. trucks a view as to the wind direction. Guess they get some high enough winds. Trucks have been blown over on occasion.
The other sign is one warning you that if the yellow lights are flashing, you have to get off at this exit because they have closed the hwy. Just closed it. They even have Gates. Gates just like they would swing across the road and chain shut at a city park...
I am also told the white-out conditions are crazy with some storms. Bad weather and sideways snow and some chain reactions have caused them to take such measures. Freak storms and vast stretches of road would make a smart man pack a few well thought-out items in the trunk for Fall/Winter driving. Hand warmers and a couple of extra wool blankest for starters. (slide off the road, engine dies and it could be hours...:smiley_crazy
... Speaking of winter driving.
Thats another thing you should know if you have never driven out that way in the fall/winter weather GUYS.
I-80 has a couple of road signs out in Nebraska that I was not use to seeing here in Ohio. I started to notice these "wind socks" (just like at the airport) on about 15-20 foot poles at every overpass we drove over as most local roads went under us when we crossed paths.(such as at an exit) Their purpose it to give drivers, esp. trucks a view as to the wind direction. Guess they get some high enough winds. Trucks have been blown over on occasion.
The other sign is one warning you that if the yellow lights are flashing, you have to get off at this exit because they have closed the hwy. Just closed it. They even have Gates. Gates just like they would swing across the road and chain shut at a city park...
I am also told the white-out conditions are crazy with some storms. Bad weather and sideways snow and some chain reactions have caused them to take such measures. Freak storms and vast stretches of road would make a smart man pack a few well thought-out items in the trunk for Fall/Winter driving. Hand warmers and a couple of extra wool blankest for starters. (slide off the road, engine dies and it could be hours...:smiley_crazy
That's very interesting Jim. I'd like to take the family out west some day. Good to know things like that.