When I was growing up Saturday Night Live was a new late night show. I don’t watch tv much now, so I don’t even know if the show is still running. So I don’t know what it is like any more if it is running. But back when I was a child watching it they …
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First Snow
Living in Seattle the question was always ‘will we get any snow this year?’ Snow was a rare and special thing. With the exception of the Chanukah eve storm and a few others we got very little snow. But that slight dusting of white stuff was still special and exciting. In Utah the question is …
Flags and Farewells
One thing we noticed right after moving to Utah is flags, American flags. Sure everyone, every state has American flags. But in Seattle you have to go to a post office or fire station to see one. Not so in Utah.
A new home a new Mac
A few years before our move to Utah I had purchased an iMac. For those of you that don’t know an iMac is Apple’s all in one desktop computer. It is a great computer. Very powerful with a fantastic huge screen. But after having it for a while I realized one problem, it isn’t too …
All the Arches
Well not really. They say there are over two thousand arches in Arches National Park. We saw about a dozen of them. So this is about all the arches we saw. They seem to come in all shapes and sizes. But all of them are amazing. Although they explain how they were made over millions …
Staying in Moab
Moab is mostly a tourist town. It is filled with lots of jeep rentals, adventure guides and other tourist things unique to this part of the world. Of course there are countless hotels and restaurants as you drive through the town. Our hotel was part of the same chain we have stayed at for years. It was …
Arches Part Two -The Real Attraction
We got to Arches about 2pm and stopped at the visitor’s center. We learned a bit more about the exciting wonders we would see in the park. After about an hour at the visitor’s center we decided to move on. Maybe I should say move up, up into the park. From where the visitor’s center …
Arches Part One – Getting There
For the past few days I had been saying we were not in a rush. I really needed a break. Because of that I was really looking forward to this vacation. One thing I have learn over the years is that a rush vacation is not refreshing, it is hectic. I would rather see less …
The Inland Ocean
Moving to Utah was such a miraculous whirlwind of events there wasn’t much time to think about what I was leaving behind. Of course there were the obvious things. Leaving half our family in Seattle was a very hard decision to make. I think the only way I was able to bear it was that …
Sandals Not Enough
Today we decided to go on an easy, I double checked the altitude, hike. It was less than a mile and at the base of the canyon. It seemed like a simple hike. As were getting ready to go Shimmy was trying to find his boots. I told him this is just a simple hike …