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A few sceneic pictures taken on our trip

Three photos taken on the Wyoming, Idaho, Montana trip.
Above are some of the actual Falls of Twin Falls Idaho. Stacy and I had passed through the area on many trips. Even stayed in the town in 1993, but we'd never seen the Falls. We came across them by accident driving around in the town from the convention center while looking for the Wal-Mart. I'm glad we did!

Below was taken at where else? Yellowstone National Park. I took many photos on the day we spent driving around the park. I liked this one for the steam rising. We saw more Buffalo than anything else as far as wildlife went. I really liked being there in the late summer almost fall for the lack of bugs! Over the years we've been there on various trips from late spring to mid summer and had to always deal with being eaten alive by all the bugs. This was a great time to go and I'm actually looking forward to the next time we go there.
Below is a nice photo (I think it is anyway!) I took on the "Going to the Sun Road" in Glacier National Park. As I'm typing this it looks a little dark, but with all the clouds it was. This was my first time to go on the famous road. I drove some of it and Stacy drove the bulk of it so I could take photos. While it wasn't a bad as I'd always read and heard, it was a very narrow road in most places and many people decided not to listen to all the warnings about really large wide vehicles. While nobody had a trailer, length maximum is supposed to be 21 feet, many of today's trucks are much larger than I think anyone could have ever imagined people driving when the road was being built! It wasn't just that but the inconsideration of many drivers to keep mirrors out etc. keeping their 'rigs' as wide as possible on the narrow road. There was quite a bit of road construction going on to the road. A lot of dirt road, I really felt sorry for the motorcyclist riding it and two stoplight stops for one lane passage on the construction zones.
We'd really lucked out though with our decision to make the drive after we'd gotten set up at an RV park in east Kalispell. This was on Saturday the 19th, and we found out that the 'Going to the Sun' was closing early so the construction could be possibly completed before winter. It was set to close at midnight on the night of the twentieth to the twenty first so any later I still wouldn't have seen the road! Our Spring was my first visit to Glacier Park before it all opened and summer ended at Glacier park just before it all closed!

We really like living so close to all these magnificent places!!! It used to be much of the 'trip' just getting to them. Now Yellowstone is a day a way, Glacier Park just a few hours.
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