by Jeff Drake | Sep 17, 2021 | Travel
I swear, I’m going to figure this out! These are unedited, unordered, warts and all.. Read the rest
by Jeff Drake | Sep 17, 2021 | Travel
2021 Utah Road Trip Days 4-8 Sorry for anyone hoping to hear much more about our trip as it is happening and of course, the photos(!), but between technical difficulties (which I am still learning to overcome) and being too exhausted to blog at night after a long day,...
by Jeff Drake | Sep 13, 2021 | Travel
2021-09-12 UTAH ROAD TRIP DAYS 2 AND 3 Day 2 was a marathon, as it turned out. We had a 7 hour drive and I drove the entire time. This couldn’t be helped as we both thought there would be mountains to drive throough and Lisa does not like to drive those hills...
by Jeff Drake | Sep 11, 2021 | Travel
2021-09-10 Nampa, Idaho DAY ONE It was a long drive today, uneventful, which is what you want when you haven’t reached your target destination yet. Our destination, BTW, is Moab, Utah, where we’ll spend a week. Lisa and I traded off driving, which made the...
by Jeff Drake | May 15, 2019 | Travel
A number of factors caused my wife and I to recently take a rather (for us) sudden trip to Utah. We usually spend more time planning for an upcoming trip, but both of us felt the need to “get away” for a few weeks. Our house was becoming somewhat of a weight on our...
by Jeff Drake | May 15, 2019 | Travel
The name “Capitol Reef” is kind of misnomer. I first thought that it might be some kind of ancient primeval coral reef that had been exposed due to erosion, but I was wrong. It turns out that there is a relation to the ancient sea, but only in the sense that the rock...
by Jeff Drake | May 15, 2019 | Travel
The good times continued in and around our next stop, Bryce National Park. This park contains one of this country’s most spectacular geologic sights, the Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument (more on this below). We’d been hearing and reading about a...
by Jeff Drake | May 15, 2019 | Travel
The last leg of our trip takes us to Big Water, Utah. This town is near Page, Arizona, which is home base for all things that are Antelope Canyon. And this was our primary target! As I mentioned previously, Antelope Canyon is on Navajo land, which means the Indians...
