Montana adventure Labor Day 2010

Well what do you know. I actually got some photos done.
You might be wondering what the big deal is.
Well let me just say I started at 7:15 and it's now 8:40. I just got done loading all the photos onto blogger. Because my photos are rather large, I can only upload 2-3 at a time.

On Labor Day weekend I went to Montana with Torkie to visit my mom.
It was my first trip this long with just me driving. I felt very confident though.
It ended up only taking me about 11 hours on the way there, with very little stops. Mostly just gas.
I got great gas mileage too. One tank I got 30 mpg, which for a sporty car like mine is really great. I arrived around 6:30pm mountain time.

The day I left I woke up pretty early. My moms outdoor thermometer read 36º. Brrrrr! My doors were almost frozen shut!
I made it home in 9 hours! I don't really understand how, but I did. It was amazing.

Photos from the weekend:

Our first day consisted of heading out to Virginia City to poke around. It's an old town with a lot of historic buildings.

Some famous road agents were hung and buried above Virginia City on what is known as boot hill.

It's a little hard to see, but this is miniature and says "rodent agents". Hahaha.

Grave markers of the road agents

On Monday we went to Yellowstone National park. I was happy to get a chance to go there again. I've been there more times than I can count, but it never gets old.

Torkie got to come along. He had a nice time even if it was a bit chilly.

Up at the Mt. Washburn overlook.

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone(yes it's really called that). So awesome.

Our first animal sighting. Bison meandering along.

Then we came upon a whole herd.

Silly looking baby bison.

One of the geothermal spots.

Lake Yellowstone... which is huge.

Torkie and me at the continental divide. This is an invisible line that naturally determines which ocean any water flows towards.

My mom and Torkie. They love each other.

Amazing sunset in the Paradise Valley on our way home from Yellowstone.

At 5:30 am, I was travelling west on I-90 probably about 45 min from Livingston. The sun was following me home.
This is the most amazing sunrise I've ever seen. I had to pull over on the side of the highway, dig out my camera and take some pictures. I did NOT touch up these two photos.

The sky was on fire.

It's 9:08pm and now I'm finished. :)

Honeymoon Pics- Capitol Reef & Arches National Parks

I'm getting towards the end of the honeymoon pics. Yay!

Capitol Reef National Park was really small and you just kinda drive through it. You didn't even have to pay to get in. We didn't really spend much time there(which is obvious in our lack of photos) because we wanted to get to Moab before it got really late.
Here are the Capitol Reef pictures.

This is after we left the park. These formations remind me of the movie Cars.

Weird country.


We arrived in Moab just as it was getting dark. We put up the tent as quickly as possible and made some food. The next day we went to Arches National Park and explored around and got some great pics. The weather was REALLY hot though so we didn't do much hiking around.

Ryan making dinner.

This was one of my favorites. It's called sheep rock. And it totally looks like a sheep! I loved it.

Balancing rock

More crazy rocks.

The famous Delicate Arch

Little lizard friend! So cute.

Sand dune arch

Katie and the arch

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P.S. Can someone who knows more about Blogger then me tell my why some of my pictures you can click them and they get bigger and some don't. I don't get it. They are all very similar in size when I load them. It's bugging me! (For instance, you can't click on my Montana Pics and see a bigger version, but you can with the pics in this post) Hrmmphh.