Trip to the East coast 2009
This is the map we made for planing the trip.
This is the group ready to go.
Our first stop Multnomah falls.
The girls taking pictures
And more pictures
The lower falls and bridge.
Jay taking a rest
Me
Looking down from the bridge
A closer look at the girls on the bridge
Our lunch break
A nice stretch of water next to our first camp site
Inside the prison museum
The tar is have trouble reading
Mo can't read either/a>
Close up of one of the locks
Guard tower
A sign about the canteen
Cells
Looking at the old section
I found two of them
A tattoo machine made by an inmate
Mo and Jay in a cell
The cell block inside
The jail cells
Part of the cat work where the guards were
in side a cell
Another cell
The shower area
Out side of main building
Outer wall and tower
The old section
A close up of the place hit in the riot
Another sign
Outside
I had to operate the chair for tar
Tar in the barber chair
Steam heat
Reading about the brake out
Stuff that had been confiscated
The tunnels out to the towers on the outside walls
Inside the car museum
More of the car museum
Lots of cars
Another picture of the museum
Another inside shot
Prehistoric bird at the museum of the rockies
A skull
A skeleton
Mo in front of a dinosaur
The girls taking pictures
Nice skull
Two types of feet
Another skull
An egg hatching
A skull in plaster
Two more skulls
They have some very good specimens
Including some still in rock
More
A replica out side
The girls under it, getting their picture taken
We are now at the little bighorn
The girls are checking it out
Tar taking a look, and enjoying the weather
The next morning the girls seem to have had wind last night
Did they wakeup? No. Every morning i had to go out and shake their tent to get them up. And most days i had to lift it enough to lift them, and do it repeatedly in order to wake them
Stoneville Saloon
We saw a turtle crossing sign so we stopped. We only saw one turtle, and it was dead.
The girls in dead wood
The girls out side the Mint saloon
Their is a cigar shop at the end of the block. I got a couple of deadwood cigars. They have them made from pipe tobacco.
Another shot of town
The hotel
Nice clock
A drive in, in deadwood
At the cemetery
At Mt. Rushmore
A close up
Another view
A real close up
This was taken from the scenic road we took
We took a cave tour of
Not much of a tour
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Chipmunk on our way to the mine
Entrance to the mine from the inside.
Further in the mine. You can see how much water their is.
Another picture inside
We are close to the falls, where the miners broke through to a stream. You can see all the moisture in the air.
The water fall in the mine.
Outside the mine we saw these deer while crossing the stream.
One of the girls wanted this picture. It was in front of a restaurant
Made it to wall drug
Tar and Blue on the rabbit
They even got my picture
There grand mother is from here.
We stopped at most small towns
Downtown
Their water tower
A residential street.
The museum(closed)
They had to have their picture in front of the sign with their grandmothers name on it.
Next to the corn palace
This was at a truck stop
At the Corn Palace
All made with corn
Mount Rushmore
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Closeup of the corn
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The front
Where they are making a new picture
The side with one spot ready for a new picture
Two more
A crude boat at an indian site that is being uncovered
Bison skeleton
Another view
This is inside where they are doing their digging
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Road sign
Now we are at the butterfly enclosure
They wanted to see butterflies
Taking pics and looking.
They took lots of pictures
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Some of the pictures you just looked at are being taken here by the girls. Is Tar having fun?
The museum in Vilisca
Tree hit by lightning last night.
The tree was still warm.
The sign in front of the house
The haunted house the girls wanted to see
Another view
This plant is in front of the garage
Unusual grave marker
A family marker
Each family member listed here
Another set
The haunted house again
The basement
Cobblestones
In the museum
In the museum
Model "T"
Buick
A Trunk on the back of the Buick
Looking inside the Buick
Model "T" truck
They even had a shoe patch machine.
In the park we spent the night at, we found a cave. The girls are on their way.
Tar went in the farthest.
Jay found a dry place to stand as tar and i went on. This is not a happy face.
A sign in one of the small towns we went thru.
Mo had me stop to get a picture of this building. The farm driveway we turned around in had a sign warning of swine flue.
A small mill at spook cave.
The other side of the mill.
The over flow.
Going into the cave by boat. The cave has a stream in it.
Jay and Tar looking at the cave.
Our guide and looking on in the cave.
Some stalactites
Inside the cave.
Stalactites
We saw this elephant just before we crossed the Mississippi river.
Looking out over the river.
We stopped at a tourist town. This was built into the rocks.
As was this.
Now we are with Enik and Sahra at the Chicago zoo.
Camels
Close up of one
Zebra
Giraffe
Good looking hog
Hyena
Another hog
Good clip job
Penguins
Don't remember the name
Wolves
Parrot
Alligator
A very relaxed poler bear
A grizzly chewing on a bone
seal
Tiger
The gang in front of a hump sign.
Enik took us shopping. This is one of the places the girls liked.
Mo with the sears tower in the back ground.
One of the places the girls wanted to see, Bachelors cemetery.
The police showed up, said they were told some suspicious people were looking for the cemetery
Another stone.
They don't take care of the places
The path
Another stone
Another stone
Another stone
Graffitti on the side of the road next to the cemetery
The cemetery
The cops with apparently nothing to do but bother people
Yes that is the name, they are a chain.
This is at the Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg museum.
An Auburn
Motorcycle
Another old one
An older Auburn
They had lots of boat tail speedsters
Another one
And another
Looking down one of the streets
Looking 90deg from the last picture
I am sitting at that intersection while the girls walk around
Smoke from a hole
An old set of steps
An old fire hydrant
Now we are in Centralia Pennsylvania
The town has been moved because the coal mine under the town is on fire.
The old road into town.
now called graffitti high way
Their is smoke coming out of the road
Coal in front of a mine
The mine entrance. It was closed by the time we got there
This was in one of the towns we stopped in
A sign in the same town
A view from the blue ridge parkway
On our way to Virginia beach
Horse shoe crab at Virginia beach
The other side of the crab
Piling with pelicans
Their is a military base next to the beach
A sign on one of the buildings
I like the street sign
Jay at the beach
Tar at the beach
Tar swimming in the Atlantic
She was in about an hour
flowers on the blue ridge parkway
Mo taking their picture
Three girls on a rock
Two on a rock
Calm water under the bridge we crossed
The foot bridge
Another view
Part of the canel, used before the civil war
1/2 of the gate at the upper end
The crowd having a look
Now they are looking at the upper end
The bridge from the canel
Jay taking a rest
Mo in the rear view mirror taking a picture
A very old dam
The sign about the dam
An old mill we stopped at
Tunnel under the road
The flume for the mill
A good shot of the mill
A better shot
An over pass
Another picture of the mill
Now we are at Biltmore
A couple of ponds in the side yard
The end of the house
Flower gardens
Trellis
The house from a distance
Tar and fish
Jay watching fish
closer
closer yet
Stairs on the outside
view of the house
This is next to front entrance
The whole house
A water fall we stopped at
Tar and i took a closer look
Another mill we stopped at
Tunnel
Squirrel
Wonderworks, yes the picture is right side up
Their sign
Yes they are building the titanic
The Titanic truck
Anatomical tiger
A tank at the Sgt. York park
The statue at the park
Inside Mammoth cave
Jay in the cave
Mo writhing a post card in the cave
A bat
Sunset over the Mississippi
Mining museum, closed
Another view
We are in Dodge city now
The train at the museum
At the cemetery in Fort Scott
Grave stones
Still at the cemetery
Tar and one of Nelda's cats
Larry and Nelda
A road side stop
The next road side stop
One of the Ostriches you can feed
A closer look
Wings out
At rest
Same stop
A closeup at the same stop
Now we are at Walnut canyon
Tar
A cliff dwelling
Jay
A side view
Tar
Tar, Jay, and myself
Jay
More cliff dwellings
Mo, and Jay
Now we are at Montezuma's castle
Another view
Mo got this shot of an animal that came down to get a drink from the stream
All of us
Now we are at Tuzigoot
A lizard
The girls in one of the rooms we can go into.
View from the top
View from the top
The other direction
On top
Mo and Jay
Jay
Jay
Mo
A great antique shop
Now we are on the hunt for the grand canyon
Part of the canyon
Another view
Inside the tower
More inside
Side of the balcony
closeup of the tower
another view
Grand canyon
Jay on the wall
closer look
The gift shop
More canyon
Tar and Jay take a look
Another view
And another
We walked down as far as this tunnel
Squirrel
We saw this in a small town
Now in Los Vegas
Signs
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more Signs
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more Signs
Taranchula in Death Valley
We started into the canyon
Tar
We went for a hike
They followed me up this cut
Jay in one of the tunnels
Here i am leading
Tar
Tar is following me, the others tuned around
Jay and myself
Tar
We all want inside the tunnel
Tar
Tar again
Off to another mine
Jay heading back
I am waiting for tar
The wash we went up
Road runner
Close up
Scotties castle
The clock tower
Iron work
Buss in Gold field
AA in the middle
Big horns next to Walker lake
Good silhouettes
Close up
We got to Reno
Reno sign
Circus circus
We ate breakfast here
The shoe tree
Jay on the bumper
Close up of the tree
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