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| Beware of Bears! |
Penelope the panda, so precocious and sly, With Mindy the brown bear, who's timid and shy.
Two furry explorers in a car packed with glee, From Texas they dashed, as wild as can be!
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| Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming |
Near Jackson, Wyoming we admired the Grand Tetons! We wanted to try some extreme skiing ...
but our peoples were anxious to keep moving.
We stopped for gas at a Sinclair station in Idaho. The Sinclair Oil brand dates back to 1916 and is well-known for its green "Dino" mascot. I got to ride a dinosaur!!
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| Sinclair Gas Dinosaur, Idaho |
We made it to Yellowstone National Park!
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| Yellowstone National Park |
We especially enjoyed the bison, at a distance. One almost ran into our car!! Be we survived and continued to Canada.
What's this? An Easter Egg in September? Eh?
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| Vegreville Easter Egg, Vegreville, Alberta |
This is a beautiful Ukrainian egg. Posing with the egg made us hungry. We went out for Ukrainian food and our peoples bought us some yummy-looking treats! But they forgot and left them at the restaurant.
While we were staying in Banff we took the Icefields Parkway toward Jasper. We saw glaciers!
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| Icefields Parkway, Jasper, Alberta |
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| Icefields Parkway, Jasper, Alberta |
Our peoples wouldn't let us walk on the glacier. But we went back another day by ourselves! 🤣
We enjoyed a scenic drive along a winding road that parallels the Bow River.
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| Bow Valley Parkway, Alberta |
I was so dizzy from the winding road that I almost fell into the river! Thankfully Mindy held on to me!
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| Bow Valley Parkway, Alberta |
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| Bow Valley Parkway, Alberta |
Our peoples decided to hike in Johnston Canyon to see a waterfall. We begged to go along and they carried us in a backpack. Boy, was it hot!
Here's a picture of us with Cheryl, looking at the river.
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| Johnston Canyon, Alberta |
Here's a picture of us with the waterfall in the background. You can't see the waterfall very well because we had to take the picture quickly. People around us were getting out their bear spray! Seriously, do we look scary?
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| Johnston Canyon Lower Falls, Alberta |
We left Canada before the temperatures dropped and the snow started. It was much dryer and warmer when we got to Moab, Utah. Here were are at Arches National Park.
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| Arches National Park, Moab, Utah |
Where are the arches, you say? Well, thanks to a tip from our guide, our peoples took us close to the back of Skyline Arch. We were the only ones there!!
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| Skyline Arch at Arches National Park, Moab, Utah |
We went out one evening to see a sunset in Arches National Park. This was our view. We stayed until it was REALLY dark and we could see tons of stars and the Milky Way!
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| Watching sunset at La Sal Mountains Viewpoint at Arches National Park, Moab, Utah |
On our last day in Moab we rode along with our peoples on another scenic road. What a beautiful day!
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| Upper Colorado River Scenic Byway, Moab, Utah |
Sorry, we have no pictures from Santa Fe, New Mexico. We stayed in a luxurious suite at the Inn of the Governors and didn’t feel like going out. We just sat back to watch the people from our balcony!! Thank goodness for room service!
What a beary fun adventure! We were two bears on a journey, wild, wacky, and free!
Penelope & Mindy
(Wendy stayed home, she's too fragile to do road-tripping!)
