grand canyon

On the 28th we left Tuba and headed to the Grand Canyon. It was so cool and big, we watched the video of the canyon at the national geographic store. The only bad part was it was packed and we were driving through it in our RV which is 40 feet long with the jeep. I wish we could of seen more of it but it was just too crowded. The view was amazing and you could see the Colorado river and every thing. We had to head one so we drove down the road to Williams, Arizona. Here you can ride on the route 66 and see historic Williams which was built in 1900. We didn't do that on this day. We stayed at an OK campground but i saw a better one that looked awesome. The only thing good about our campground was the showers were good and there was TV. I would give it 3 out of 4 stars

four corners

Yesterday we left La Mesa and headed to Tuba city in Navajo Nation, Arizona. On the way there we stoped at four corners which was so cool. Just think about it once i had one foot in four different states at once and i went through four states 2 times each in 10 seconds. When we first arrived at four corners we noticed that there were tons of Navajo Peolple selling indian stuff. I met this guy that loves Steelers as you can see and he was stationed in Norfolk Va. He was selling home made arrows and they were cool so i bought one. My mom bought some beaded hair clips and something else. We also tryed Navajo Fry Bread which is like Funnel Cake but i liked this better but it would of been sweet if it had chocolate. After Four corners we keeped on going down the road because it was only 12 oclock. We made it a couple more miles untle we stopped at Elephants feet park in one picture look at it hard and you can see the feet. There are 2 feet side by side but we couldnt get them in this picture. While we were there a bus carring tons of people blew a tire and it was cool. We left that and made it to Tuba, we stayed behind a quality Inn which was cool because there was a side walk that goes all the way around the hotel so i had so much fun with the trike. I would give this campground 3 out of 5 stars because no tv and there was these stray dogs that wouldnt leave us alone.

Mesa Verde

On the 26th we finally went to Mesa Verde. It was cool but we were there for 5 hours. We did the tour of Cliff palace which is an easy hike and not very high off the ground, because my mom is terrified of heights. I liked the hike but my mom didnt because you have to climb latters to get to places, i can do it fine because i work with my dad but my mom had trouble. When we got there it was Awesome but Weird because they did this in 1200 Thats just crazy. It was a little hot but not bad imagine being there in 115 degree weather. There was about 100 rooms in that village which is alot for that time. In the picture that is not the whole place there is more but we couldnt get it all in. All in all it was pretty cool but long.

Cortez Colorado

On the 24th we left Moab and headed 2 hours east to Cortez, Co. Just out side of Cortez is Mesa Verde, which is where the cliff dwellers lived. We didnt get to see Mesa Verde on the first or second day staying there because of the weird weather we were having. My favorite part about this campground was that there was a big parking lot next door, so i could get some practice in on my trikke. The place was called La Mesa or something it was all right but nothing good i would give it 2.5 out of 5 stars because there wasnt much.

dead horse pics

That is me on the edge of the cliff and that is the view i am talking about. Amazing

dead horse

On the 23rd we went to Dead Horse State Park. It was so cool it had an awesome view straight off the edge off a Cliff. It was a thousand feet to the ground at least and i sat on the edge off the Cliff with my feet dangling off the edge. And my mom is terrified of heights so she couldn't get close at all. We had a rough day because every one was at each others throats because i wanted to go back to the RV because we had a massive thunder storm coming at us my dad want to go back but my mom wanted to keep on going. But we needed to get back to the RV because our jeep was shutting down when we slowed down. The park was so beautiful and so wide spread. When we got back to the RV it poured down rain like i have never seen it before. Oh we didn't do any thing on the 22nd so that is why i skipped that. I will put pictures of it on in a day. And my computer is now working and i am using it.

angry parents

Yesterday we went rafting which was fun but it went by too fast because the water was to high. We had a fun instuctor that took us on a walk to burn some time. I wish there would have been more rapids because it was so flat. After that we went to go walk down main street and check it out. i got a jeep shirt because Moab runs around jeeps. It was cool but nothing was really open. well i have to end it now because my mom want leave me alone she has been mean, like a rabid cheeta ripping a part a bunny.

Moab

Yesterday we left A Ok and headed for Moab. It is a cool off-roading, hiking, rafting, and ATV rental, town. I want to rent a ATV and go run it some where. We were going to take our jeep on a off road trail but we had to take air filter cap off because it isn't getting enough air and if you run it and dust gets in the carb it will gum it up. So we didn't get to do that but we did do some other stuff. We signed up for a rafting trip which we are going on in 3 hours. After that we went to Arches State Park to see the rocks and stuff. It was a disappointment because as close as you could get was four miles from the arche so you couldn't see it up close. We didn't get any good pictures of the arche but we did get a good picture of the balanced rock

tons of Goblins

Aren't these goblins weird they just popped out of nowhere. they are brittle. because they are part dirt.

A OK

On the 19th we left Shady Acres (i didnt know the name it the last post) RV park to go 2 blocks up the road. It was called A OK campground, my mom liked it but i thought it was horrible. Mainly because you couldnt get any tv and Jay Leno was hosting Terry Bradshaw (the 70s quarterback for the Steelers) so i was mad. And it didnt have any paved roads for my trikke. The only reason we moved is so we could save $5. After all of that we went to Goblin Vally State park to see all the goblins. I dont have the pictures yet but i will today. It was cool but hot, these Goblin things are every where its just weird.

middle of nothing

Yesterday we left SLC and headed through the desert to Green River, Utah. I was a long drive through the desert that was so boring. But before all of that, we went to the Orem mall Where there is the biggest scrapbook store or some crap. So my mom just had to go in there, but there was some good stores there. My mom bought a Sansa MP3 player, like mine. And me and my dad bought a Tikke, it is a curving bike and it is fun. You can look at it at http://www.trikke.com/ . I am getting good at it, but still some practice. We left that and made it to our destination. Its called Shady Days rv it is a nice campground i would give it 4 out of 5 but the bad part was there was not smouth ground for my trikke.

day 2 in SLC

On the 17th we went to Bridal Vail falls which it a huge water fall that you can climb up. There was these kids that climbed up almost all the way. It was cool but it took so long to get there. Then we went to a super market and got steaks UMMM. When we got back to the rv i had to light the grill and i through the match it hit the top shelf it stuck there and i went to go flick it missed and burnt the crap out of my finger. And thats it not much happend on the 17th just slow.

salt lake city

On the 15th we left the KOA and we headed all the way across the state to the salt lake. It took about 5 hours to get there. Oh My mom freaked out when we were driving down this road to vernal because there was nothing between you and the cliff. So she worried her self sick, so she had to lay on the couch. Anyways we made it to the state park and it is called Jordanelle. It is cool here but it takes along time to get anywhere. I would give this statepark 4 out of 5 stars because the showers arent that good. On the 16th we headed in to salt lake city and we went to go see the lake and we had to walk about a half a mile just to get to the water. As soon as we got there my mom slipped in the mudd and dropped her camera. We also went to go see Temple Square which is a huge church stuff and other stuff, as you can tell i wasnt much in to it. The highlight of the whole thing was are leader was a Steelers fan so thats all i talked about.

Dinosaurland KOA

Yesterday we left Rock springs and went in to Utah. We went straight down in to Vernal, UT. We went to a a national park all about dinosaurs and we took a mile hike up to a site where you could see a couple of real bones. That was cool because that was my first real hike up a mountain and i drank alot of water, i was so surprised how hot it was when you start walking. We stayed at a KOA 14 miles from the park. The campground was not that good but we did see a husky. I would give this campground 2 out of 5 stars. But we did have cable :)
I am not going to be able to update every day for a couple of days because i have a virus on my computer and we have to take it to geek squad tomorrow and see if they can get it of. I have tryed everything to get it off but nothing worked. Right now i am using my moms PC and i dont like using this computer.

rock springs

Today we left Cody and drove down to Rock Springs, Wy. It is about 25 miles from Utah. We are going to stay in Salt Lake City tomorrow. But to get to Rock Springs we had to go back through Thermopolis. This campground is so horrible, we are staying at a KOA outside of Rock Springs and it is so boring there is nothing to do here. No tv at all and nothing fun. Right now i am watching Larry the Cable Guy, i have seen this one 5 times but it still funny. I would give this campground 1 out of 5 stars. It would be nice if they had 1 tv channel.

yellow stone pictures

the moose is so cool he came right up to our car and you could see him good.

The other picture is Old Faithful its kind of a bad picture but you get the point.

way too long

Yesterday we went to Yellowstone it took us 3 hours to get there. On the way we saw three bears and tons of bison. When we were pulling in to the parking lot for Old Faithful, it went off. so we missed it by one minute so we had to wait around for a hour until it goes off again. It was pretty cool but it took too long to get there. It shot off for abought 3 minutes and it was tons of water. On the way back to Cody we saw our first moose he was 2 feet from our car. We also saw tons of mountain goats and the most deer we have ever seen in my life. And there was a huge rock that split right down the middle from ice. We had to drive another 3 hours back so we didn't get back until 9 o'clock and around here all the places to eat where closed until we found dairy queen. When we where in dairy queen i saw a mounted Jackolope. They are so cool and funny, a jackolope is a mix between a bunny and a antelope. This is a myth but i hope its true, Ther first person to see a jackalope was Wild Bill Waller in 1828. The jackalope is known to imitate the human voice, like parrots. If you want more pictures of the jakealope just type it in on google. I will put the pictures of the moose and Old Faithful later.

golf and ponderosa

On the 9th me and my dad went golfing, but we didnt have our clubs so we went to a pawn shop and we rented some. I havent played 9 holes in 5 years so i was pretty rusty. I got 60 for 9 holes but we were using clubs from the 80s, my dad scored 40.

Yesterday we left Thermopolis and we headed to Cody, WY. This town is so cool, its a modern town so it has a walmart, arbys, subway, and tons of other stuff. We are staying at Ponderosa campground, which is really nice it is on a stream and is walking distain to main street. I'll give this campground 10 out of 10 stars because it is so nice. Yesterday we went to the buffalo bill museam and it was so boring but i did get tons of steps. ( the thing about the steps is i have a pedometer and i need to get 15000 a day Yesterday i got 20000 steps.) The museam was so dumb i dont even know who buffalo bill is and i still dont.

white out

On the 8th we left Deer park and headed to Thermopolis. On the way there we went over top of big horn MT which was a snow cap MT. On top there was 2 feet of snow but that wasn't the bad part, the problem was it was so windy and when it blew it picked up the snow and made a complete white out. we couldn't see for a couple of minutes so it was scary. After all that madness we got to Thermopolis which is built around the hot springs. We went swimming in the hot springs which smell like rotten eggs because of all the minerals and crap. It felt good at first but when i got out it started burning my skin because i am not use to it being that hot (104 degrees to be exact). We went walking around the springs and we felt the water at the begining of the springs and the water was abought 110 degrees so it was hot. In this one photo where i am laying down on the rock abought 150 feet off the ground, we walked back across the bridge and i looked at the rock and it was held up by two small rocks so that kind of freaked me out.

crappy campground

On the 7th we left Heartland RV Park, and went to Buffalo, Wyoming. On the way we stoped at devils tower which was cool and it was huge we walked alittle bit but not much we saw a husky that looked my old husky. We weren't sure if we were going to make it to buffalo so we stopped at Gilette but the campground sucked. So we didn't stay there we just kept on going to Buffalo. We stayed at this place called Deer Park Campground which was very nice i would give it 9 out of 10. We saw this sign coming to Buffalo that we wish we could have got a picture of and send it to Jay Leno. It said Welcome to the 4-H club and right behind the sign was a grave yard. We went to go eat at Winchester Steakhouse which had the best steak ever and it came with salad, potato, main dish, and a sundae. Which filled me right up.

bear pics

these bears are so cool. And they do look like dogs. And that one is a big bear just so you know.

baby bears

On the 6th we went to bear country which is a big park that has tons of bears, wolfs, elk, and moose. The bears were so big, the way you get to see them is you drive through the park and they are all there. One bear came up to our window and just looked at us. Then we got to see all the baby bears, they were just like puppies. they were wrestling around and running all over the place. We also saw skunks, foxes, fish, and coyotes. I will put pictures of the baby bears on later but i cant right now because my mom has to upload them from her camera.

gold

On the 5th we went to go gold panning at Big Thunder gold mine. We went on a tour in the big thunder gold mine. Here is some of the history of the place. Big Thunder was owned by two guys that worked during the day then mined at night. They got the idea of doing this because they heard the there was a huge gold vain right around it and they started mining in the side of the mountain. With the tools they had they could only mine three feet a day. well they got about 100 feet and they hadnt found any gold. then they ran out of money so they stoped mining for a little while but they still went in the mine because all year around the mine stays at 50 degrees so if its hot then they can go cool off. Well they didnt want people knowing that they didnt work on it any more so they brought a huge sheet of steel and whacked it with a hammer to make it sound like they were still working. Then they got some money and started again. They got another 100 feet then they hit solid iron which the could even blow it up. the came all that way and only came out with 9 ounces of gold. So we panned for gold for a hour and i found the most then dad then mom. But it is so tiring panning and for a little bit of gold. after that we headed back to the rv. and then i had an allergy attack.

mount rushmore

On the 4th we arrived at heartland RV park just outside of rapid city. We will be staying here for 3 days. I give this campground a 8 out of 10. After we got there we went to mount Rushmore and we saw the presidents heads. At first i didn't know who was up there but then i looked really hard and i was able to figure them out. I am not going to put there names up because you should know them. We left Rushmore and went to go eat at this place called bumpin buffalo, it was really good. I had chicken fingers because i just had a burger the day before, my mom had buffalo burger which she didnt even save me a bite, and my dad had a regular cheese burger. Then we went to crazy horse park and that is like Rushmore but with a different person. I cant remember his name but he has a name, maybe. Then we headed back to the RV and we saw a pack of bison. They are huge and stinky. I think these pictures are good but i cant tell because they are small when you upload them. And the drive out to rushmore was long and i missed Two and a half men and the Big Bang Theory.

Wall drug

Two days ago we left Mitchel, South Dakota (the arbys place) and headed for Rapid City but we didn't make it all the way there. We were driving down I 90 and we saw all of these signs for this place called 1880 town. It is a town that was built in 1880 and it was all redone but they still have all the old stuff. My mom liked it but i hated it because everything is so old. After that we got back on the road and we went down this road that goes right through the badlands. It was so cool but the weird thing was that the hills were all dirt so you would think when it rains that they would just wash away. As we were going through we saw a mountain goat and millions of prairie dogs. Then we made it to Wall, South Dakota. At Wall there is this place called Wall Drug its a street that has older shops that have been there for a long time. We stayed at a campground that was right across the street from Wall Drug. The campground had nothing in it, just a blank slate. The only thing you could do was get there and set up then shower then sleep.

more pics

here are some of the windmills and stuff. i love that cow

south dakota

Today we left iowa and drove across iowa on I 80 then we turned off that to I 29. Then we took that to I 90 right in to Madison, south dakota. We got to see so much cool stuff on the way here. We saw abought 1500 windmills, and we watched 100 trucks taking the wings of the windmills somewhere. I saw a speed limit sign that had 75 mph and a 55 mph limit. We are staying at a campground behind a days inn. I like this campground it has cable, indoor water park, an arbys is 40 feet away. I would give this place 4 out of 5 stars. We also saw tons of Bison you know the ugly cows. We went to Cabela's and i bought a new knife, its a titanium Browning. tomorrow i will put pictures of today because it is 11:00.

iowa

Yesterday we left the statepark and drove 6 hours to Des Moines (idk how to spell it) Iowa. We are staying at a very nice five star campground, call Cuttys. It has mini golf, bathhouse, heated pool, rc race track, laundry place, lake, and its right next to a golf course. I would give this campground 5 of 5 stars. This place has every thing that you would want. The only bad thing is i am hurting because we went to the driving range and we hit 250 balls. My longest hit was 189 yards but we used the rental clubs which suck because they are cheap and have been used for 10 years. We went to the movies and i wanted to see the fast and the furious but it wasnt showing so i had to see 17 again. I wanted to see obsessed but i said 17 again. So i watched half of obsessed which was sweet but then i had to go back to the other theater because the ticket check person came around. 17 again wasnt a good movie it was so boring at parts unlike obsessed.