We made it

We arrived in San Francisco late last night after a long rainy drive from Portland. It is nice to be back in the city but unfortunately the rain followed us down the coast. Erik is here for a couple days and then he will keep driving down to Ventura County. I am excited to be in SF for a little while and see how different it is. I already don't understand how to ride the bus.

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Seattle

We have been hanging out in Seattle for the last week with our friend Rosie and her friends at the Yellow House. Tomorrow we are gonna drive down to Olympia to pick up some of Bonnie's stuff and then to Portland to stay with my friend Amanda.

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Idaho and new pictures

We are in Northern Idaho, in Dover which is near Sandpoint on Lake Pend Oreille. It has been raining on and off mostly on but only a drizzle, sometimes more. Because we crossed into the Pacific Time Zone on Daylight Savings Day we are frequently very confused as to the time. Tomorrow I think, or the next day we will drive to Seattle if the weather is nice. I have some more pictures now, they are all on flickr but here are a few:

Christina in Big Bend, TX and everyone in White Sands, NM:


In Albuquerque, NM:


Christina outside her new house in Santa Fe:

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Yellowstone

We are in Yellowstone today but we will only be able to stay for one day because they are expecting snow on Sunday and we don't want to get caught in a storm. Because the days are so short (10 hours of light/8 hours of sunshine) we won't be able to hike in anywhere tonight so we will stay at the campground at Mammoth. It has been very cold, the ranger at the Old Faithful visitor's center said it was 20° last night here. At our campsite on Phelps lake in Grand Teton our water had a sheet of ice on top in the morning but when we got back to the truck the other gallons of water were frozen solid. Because it has been so cold and there is snow on its way we will drive all the way to Erik's family's house in northern Idaho tomorrow to clean off and warm up.

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Wyoming and Grand Teton

We slept last night near the eastern border of Idaho and drove into Wyoming this morning. As we climbed into the mountains out of Alpine, WY the temperature dropped to 31 degrees but it is supposed to clear up later today and be clear through the weekend. Right now we are in Jackson, WY and after lunch we will drive into Grand Teton Nat. Park and probably spend a day there. Tomorrow we will continue on to Yellowstone and hopefully the weather stays good for a couple days.

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Congratulationss Giants!

We spent most of yesterday in Arches National Park, which should really be renamed Photography National Park. We saw the most photographed arch in America and it looked exactly like the photographs! We were getting AM 700 out of Salt Lake City for most of the game but then lost reception in the 9th inning, but somehow it came back for the last batter and we heard the end of the game!

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Utah

We are in Moab, Utah today on our way to Arches National Park. We decided to cut the corner of Colorado and drive into Utah last night. We camped in a free BLM campground full of mostly climbers. The campground was in a steep canyon and we climbed up some of the sides to some petroglyphs. Tomorrow we will probably drive North to Salt Lake City then to Idaho or Wyoming.

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