Category: USA
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North Yellowstone
We headed west from South Dakota, across Wyoming and Montana to our ranch house in the land of the Duttons. We rented a super cute house in Livingston Montana, just outside Paradise Valley and the North entrance to Yellowstone National Park. The west part of the park doesn’t open until…
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Not so Badlands
Our last day in the Black Hills we decided we would drive out to see the Badlands. We had pretty low expectations for this National Park. It doesn’t hit any of the ‘must see’ lists, and we’ve become pretty desensitized to national parks, and rocks in general. We set out…
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In Denver Pants are Optional
We were completely surprised by Denver in a number of different ways – the weather, the city, the nudity. Like so many of the places we have been on this trip, we put effectively zero research into where we were going, what we would do when we were there, and…
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Hot Springs
After the last 10 or so days in Utah, it was time to move on. I really did enjoy all the red rocks and nature and warm-ish weather, but I can only take so much desert type wasteland before I need to see some green, and people, and if I’m…
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Sand Caves, Dragon Bellies and Dino prints
Our first stop in Utah and the gateway to a couple of the national parks we had planned is Kanab – the former Hollywood of the west. This was a town that had very clearly seen better days and could really use a nice coffee spot but served as a…
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Bryce Canyon & Zion
There are two national parks pretty close to Kanab and we wanted to make sure we saw both. Zion is much more popular than Bryce so we figured we would go to Bryce on the weekend and Zion through the week to try and beat some of the crowds. It…
Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids 