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We departed Bryce Canyon on Tuesday with temps of 27 degrees and light snow falling.   When we arrived at Pony Express RV Resort in Salt Lake City, I thought for sure I must be suffering from dyslexia when I looked at the thermostat.   I just couldn’t believe it was a comfortable 72 degrees here! This is a lovely campground with easy access to Highway 215 (although it is a bit noisy) and to the Legacy walking/bike trail. It has HUGE pull-thru sites, manicured lawns, full hookups and free Wi-Fi and cable. Salt Lake City is home to the Church of the Latter Day Saints (LDS), whose congregants are also known as Mormons (like Donny and Marie Osmond!).   Joseph Smith founded the Mormon faith as a young man in New York State.   Ironically, ancestors of the very people who, among other reasons, came to this country to escape religious discrimination, persecuted the Mormons for their beliefs.   The Mormons were driven from New York, to Ohi...

Brrrrrr!   We woke up at 6:30 on Wednesday to 19 degree temps.   By the time we left our campground in Yellowstone at 8 a.m. it warmed up considerably--to a whopping 27 degrees!   About 20 minutes into our drive, we saw a bear lumbering through the woods—but, as usual, no time to snap a photo. The scenery along the drive was breathtaking!   The sparkling white snow drifted down gently to rest on the strong limbs of the evergreen trees. I thought I was transported into a Bob Ross painting! Just a little dab of white on those trees!    In Polson, about an hour outside Glacier National Park, we traversed along picturesque Route 35, which winds along the shoreline of Flathead Lake.   At 27 miles in length and 15 miles in width, this is one ginormous body of freshwater!   It is said to be one of the cleanest lakes in the populated world for its size and type.   There are lots of cherry, peach, and apple orchards ne...

We pulled out of our West Glacier campground at 7 a.m. and were rewarded with several wildlife sightings:   a wolf and raven sharing a roadside café breakfast of a dead deer (death by auto), three mule deer bucks munching in a meadow, and a male moose right off Highway 464 in Babb! Hard to tell, I know, but this is a moose! It was very sad going through Blackfeet Indian Country.   Like many reservations, there is widespread poverty.   With the trillions of dollars we give as aid to foreign countries, it is hard to fathom such misfortune in the U.S.A. Going through the border crossing at Carway/Piegan was easy peasy! We headed to the Prince of Wales Chalet in Canada’s Waterton State Park.   We thought we’d get a peak of the glaziers from the “other side of the fence.”  Just beautiful! More importantly, we were all looking forward to lunch at the restaurant, where supposedly all the wait staff wear kilts!   ...