Signs You Don't See Every Day

States I Have Visited

I found a link to this cool map generator on the geocaching.com website. The generator can be found here. Since we spent so much of the last two weeks driving through the western United States, I thought I would put a map on this blog. It might be cheating, but I am counting states that I have driven through and landed in on airport layovers.




During the last two weeks alone we drove from Washington, through Oregon and Idaho to Utah. Two days later we left Utah and went through a bit of Colorado, ALL of New Mexico to Texas. On the way back we went through ALL of New Mexico, a tiny bit of Arizona, back to a bit of New Mexico, stepped on New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado at the same time, aka "Four Corners," (watch for that post...coming soon), back through a tiny bit of Colorado and on to Utah.

I'm in Utah now and when I return home, in a few days, I will have crossed a state border 16 times!

Well, lookey here...

There may or may not exist a semi-awkward, fully-funny video of Drew dancing on his mission.
Mom may or may not have asked me to find it.
I may or may not have found it.
I may or may not have posted it below.

It's all so fuzzy...

Cattleman's Steak House

Feeding the rabbits.

Robby and Mike

We went sight-seeing on the Trans Mountain highway in El Paso, Texas tonight. The scenery could not compete with Robby.

Robby Likes Big Shoes

It's true. Whenever someone leaves their shoes lying on the floor, Robby is right there, stepping into them. He even wears Megan's shoes, which take a bit more work to get into (and it could be dangerous, if Megan is watching).

Mike's shoes

Kyle's shoes

It's not easy to get around, but it must be fun!

This was too cute to leave out (besides, Robby has his Dad's shoe under his arm!)

A Few Sites on the Way to Texas

Saturday, August 1st we began a LONG drive to Texas. Bruce and I got up at 5:00 AM and "hit road" (Robby's new favorite phrase). First leg: head north from Springville, Utah to pick up Kyle at EFY in Salt Lake City. We met up with him about 7:00 and were headed back south by 7:10. After a quick stop in Provo to get Krispy Kremes and drop off something at Drew's, it was El Paso or bust.

The chosen route went through Monticello, UT. We went a block or two off the main road to see the first smaller temple ever constructed...

The Monticello Utah Temple

Kyle obliged me and made my favorite "picture face."

We went through the corner of Colorado and saw the first of the pointy up formations (fancy geological term). This is called "Chimney Rock" and is found in Montezuma County.

Shiprock is in the northeast corner of New Mexico...and even has a town named after it. We ate lunch at that special Southwest restaurant, "Sonic."

South of the town of Shiprock

Detail of the formation on the right.