We will be home is a short! (Got home 6/15/10)

1) We made it to Summerville, SC for 1st Cuz Jan's birthday. 2) The birthday girl, her daughter Deb behind her, Barbara in the foreground. 3) My brother Howard, 1st Cuz Martha Lucille Dodge and two of her daughters. 4) Barbara's mother Toots and Izzy on the trip to NC in the motorhome. Toots was just thrilled that Izzy got up and laid down next to her. We failed to tell Toots that Izzy had chosen the couch as her travel spot for this trip and she was sitting in it!

We are headed South for sure now.

1) The east side of the Mississippi River south of St. Louis. 2) Around Nashville, TN. 3 & 4) Oh boy! Downtown Atlanta!

Historic St. Charles

1) St. Charles is west of St. Louis, on the Missouri just a few miles upstream from the Mississippi River. 2) An old railroad bed is now a bike and walking trail. 3) Downtown. 4) The "free" trolley that took us from our campground to and around downtown.

Kansas

1) We found this about 2 hours west of Abilene, there was one in ID also. 2) At Abilene, KS. 3) The home. 4) Where Ike and Mamie are buried. Ike's election to President is the first election that I have much memory of as a pre-teen.

To the top of Pikes Peak and back!

1) There was snow near the top. 2 & 3) Some of the switch backs. 4) About 1/2 of the road was dirt or gravel. Barbara said her palms were sweating and her heart was palpating (I was doing the driving), she doesn't do heights well, but she said it was too beautiful not to look! She gave me several driving instructions on this ride!

Pikes Peak

1) That morning we could not go to the top because of high winds. 2) This is the 13 mile turn around spot. 3) The winds lulled and alowed us to make to the top in the afternoon. 4) Left click on this and read about "America the Beautiful".

Wy and CO

1)Cuz Fran and Dave Naler and the "kids" in Cheyenne, WY. 2) Passing through Denver. 3) Golden, CO. 4) Part of the Coors tour.

At the Big Mo

1)Richard, Terry & Fred wetting a line. 2) Looking up stream from the fishing spot. 3) A beautiful sight on Lake Hauser, Helena, MT in the background. 4) A MT pastime, which it was me, but it is not!

A narrow section of the Big Mo north of Helena, MT

Left click on the signs and read them!

Sawing the lunber for the porch.

1) Fred gives Unk Richard the once over of the sawmill. 2) Richard has a question. 3 & 4) Richard actually sawing the dry Lodgepole Pine into 1" planks. A thrill for an old retired Forester!

Niece and her husband's home out from Helena, MT

1) Fred working on the front porch. 2) Uncle Richard helped out (in the orange of course!) 3) Most of the front of the home. 4) A view of the back of home.

Peaks to Craters Byway along the Salmon River, ID

Craters of the Moon, ID

1) The entrance sign. 2) The moonscape. 3) Spring flower bloom. 4) Close up of one of the flowering plants.