Apparently the shock I suffered from seeing myself in the mirror caused a severe lapse in blog entries. :)

I've finally edited the pictures I took. There aren't a whole lot and next time I'm going to do this while on the road. We'll start with our first camp site and the only place we set up the tent. It was the first state park we saw as we left Ely, NV. We found pine nuts, which made Liam happy. The sun was setting by the time the tent was up.



I don't want to depend on a tent again. It takes too long to set up and didn't suit our needs.

In Calente, we stopped by the original location for Vasu Video. It's still vacant and the name is still above the door, albeit, peeling.



We stopped in Panaca on Halloween to see the house where Liam spent all of his teen years. It looks like the current inhabitants were ready for the trick or treaters.


We visited Nine mile rock outside of Panaca. You guessed it, it's nine miles out.


Then we traveled on over to Cedar City, UT, our destination.


We did some walking around and Liam did some shopping but there weren't any pictures taken for some reason. I wasn't feeling all that great, so maybe I forgot. :/ Then we went up to Beaver to find a spot to camp in another state park. That's where Alysium and Dragon found a lava rock, climbed on it and then a tree, climbed up it and then a very small flower, they just looked at that.

After driving through Beaver city, and Parowan, we drove over to Beryl and Beryl Junction. No pictures, but I wrote down our impressions of each area to share with the kids. Then we went through Enterprise where we saw our first wild turkeys and stopped at a National forest for the night. Liam was in his natural habitat and was climbing on the rocks, exploring the grove of trees and such. Alysium and Dragon found what looked like a big dragon egg cave, climbed another tree, much smaller this time, found some lichen, I see at least four different colors, and climbed some more rocks.


We headed back to Panaca in the morning, but not before trying to capture all the colors around the stream as we left Enterprise. It doesn't do it justice at all.


Back on BLM land where Liam and his parents used to gather pine nuts, we visited a favorite camping spot for humans from a time before white men crossed this land up to the present. We always seem to leave our trash behind.

Note the larger amount of sunshine.




Our last stop before heading home was somewhere in Idaho at a roadside picnic area where we had dinner and then Liam drove and drove and drove until we were home. We rousted a sleeping Catherine from our bed, sent her home and I was excitedly greeted by the dog for about half an hour or so. Chihuahuas are like that. Then we slept for a very long time.