Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years.

Vegies and More

It is winter so its time to take some more photos of vegies (Brussels Sprout) to start getting ready for summer.  The following two vegetables keep well uncooked.

 

Here is a pepper.

 

Diversion Dams are common out west.  In the east they get their water from rain, out west we get it from snow melt off the mountains. 

 

Out Our Front Door (Overland Trail Stage)

Visited one of the Overland Trail Stage Stops at Point of Rocks Wyoming.  The main house and office has been rebuilt and is a Historic Site in Wyoming.  In the second half of the eighteen hundreds
there were stage coach stops every ten miles or so to change out the horses and every fifty miles a place to rest and make repairs.

 These markers are placed across the State along the route and are a reminder of past travelers.

Out Our Front Door (old log)

Summer was too short now in December, I look back on warmer weather and plan for our Christmas break.  This is a photo from a stream that feeds into the North Platte River in Eastern Wyoming in the summer.  It is forty degrees today and I hope it holds till the next snow.

Out Our Front Door (old log)

Summer View of Old Faithful

 

While you can not camp right at this site you can park nearby and walk to it within a couple of minutes.  We enjoy bringing our RV to sites like this even if camped in the area because we always have our bath and kitchen nearby.  Also if you really want to make a day of it you can go back to the RV and take a short nap.

 

 

It is always a good idea to go early so you can find a good parking spot.  Always remember to try to make sure when you park so that no one can pull right in-front of you and block you so you can  leave when you want.  It happened to me once. I tried so hard to only take the minimum space needed.  Once we had to wait two hours for the folks that blocked us to come back and leave so we could.  So since then I have always tried to take up a little extra space to reduce the chances of this ever happening again.  It has worked so far.

Duluth - Out Our Front Door (Old Log)

I love our visit to Duluth while there we stayed in a lake front hotel (they had parking room for our RV).  It was the only way to stay by the harbor so we could watch the ships come and go.  I learned that when you can see them just on the horizon they are 30 to 45 minutes out.

 

Below is a ship coming into the harbor just off the sea wall.

 

Below we see a ship passing the sea wall and turning into the harbor.  This port is only closed a couple months each year do to ice on the lakes.

This final photo below is a large Laker coming out of the harbor taking ore to Indiana.   These larger Lakers are so large they can only travel the upper three lakes.  They are over a thousand feet long.

 

We hope to go back to Duluth in the summer of 2015.

Out Our Front Door

You never know when you may see an Abbey

 Kathy at a zoo that allowed visitors to feed and pet some animals under zoo keeper supervision.  Kathy has always loved giraffe's.

Since the Space Race I have always been interested in Rockets and Missile's I ended my Air Force days as a Missile Launch Officer.  Here is an Atlas Rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.