Bryce Canyon

We’re having a very fun time out in Bryce Canyon. Every park is a little bit different than the last and has so much to explore. Today we went hiking in the park with a couple from CT that we met Wednesday on our last hike. We chatted with them by the falls and said…

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Capitol Reef and New Pics

We’re slowly making our way to Bryce Canyon, but on our way we hit up another national park…Capitol Reef. We didn’t do any hiking today, but we did a lot of driving down some very spectacular scenic byways. We probably could have arrived here in Escalante much sooner, but we have a little “shutter affliction”…

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Vacation: Day 4

Written by Christine This morning we headed back into Arches for a look at Double Arch and to explore the Devils Garden area. We wanted to hike a little more out there but the wind was gusting more than 30+ mph! We were covered with a fine film of sand and decided to turn back…

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Canyonlands

We had morning of rafting yesterday. The river wasn’t very fast, but the area we were in was beautiful! I even jumped in for a swim. It threatened to rain all day and did occasionally, but we decided to take a drive to Canyonlands anyway rather than stay in the room and we are so…

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Fiery Furnace & Windows

We hiked the “Fiery Furnace” yesterday. It was an amazing hike through a maze of sandstone fin canyons. We’ve never seen anything like it. There were seveal arches and every where you looked was another amazing view. In the afternoon we went to a place called “Windows” that was so awesome I’m starting a petition…

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Arches!

We made it to Utah without incident. We’re now in arches taking in Delicate Arch at sunset. What an amazing site. We can’t wait to see even more of the park.

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Catching Up

It’s about time that I posted an update here. Christine and I have had a busy summer as usual. She has already traveled to Prince Edward Island with family for week with a stop in Acadia National Park for good measure. She took about 1 million pictures give or take a few and we have…

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Making progress

We are definitely not having any problems finding things to do in the new house. And I can’t even bear the thought of looking at our Home Depot bill, but the good news is we are making some excellent progress. Just in the last week we’ve managed to finish the tile in the upstairs bathroom…

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Moving Pics

We?ve been really busy with the house, and we?re just about all moved in. We posted a few pictures. Hope you enjoy. http://dougandchristine.smugmug.com/

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It’s Official! We’re Home Owners

That’s right! We bought our first house. We are very excited but there is much work to be done. We’ve even already made our first purchase at Home Depot of some bathroom supplies to redo the half bath downstairs. Can anyone say weekend project? The picture below was taken after we finished signing about a…

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