our grand adventure: the rest

Recap from the previous post:

 

We celebrated our 19th anniversary.  We went to Oklahoma to support our friends as they wed.  We road-tripped home to Washington over the course of four days.  I took pictures.  There, you are all caught up!

 

I don't really have too much more to say about our trip but the pictures are beautiful and it would be a shame to not share them.  We traveled through Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.  My most favorite was Oregon, perhaps because it is my birth state and no matter how many years pass, it is always HOME.

 

Wyoming was flat and brown.  It is our country's least populated state.  I'm pretty sure that wind turbines probably outnumber humans.  It did have some beautiful areas and I was able to capture them.





 

 

Wyoming

 

 

 

 

Wyoming

 

 

 

Wyoming

 

 

 

Wyoming

 

 

 

Wyoming (or Utah?)

 

 

 

Wyoming (or Utah?)

 

 

 

 

Utah was multifaceted.  There was such beauty on the eastside of the state.  I know that Utah is home to five beautiful national parks and maybe some day I'll have opportunity to explore them. 

 

Utah

 

 

 

Utah

This picture doesn't even look real to me.  If I had not taken it myself I would have thought it was some sort of Claymation.

 

 

 

Utah

This may have been my luckiest shot of the whole trip.  Why?  The bird.

 

 

 

 

Idaho

 

 

 

 

 

Idaho

 

 

Idaho

 

 

 

Idaho

 

 

 

Abandoned cement plant, Oregon

 

 

 

Oregon

 

 

 

 

Oregon

 

 

 

 

Oregon

 

 

 

Pendelton, Oregon

 

 

 

John Day Dam on the Columbia River, Oregon

 

 

 

 

 

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

We took the time to hike to the top of the falls.  It is a winding, one mile climb.

 

 

 

 

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

 

 

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

 

 

Pool at the top of Multnomah Falls

 

 

The calm before the fall

 

 

Multnomah Falls, Oregon

August 10, 2016

 

 

 

 

Not pictured:  Washington.  It is all so familiar that I didn't feel the same awe and wonderment at it's landscape.  Plus there was all sorts of bad traffic and that squelched any remaining bits of creative eye.  But as we crossed the bridge onto our island I rolled down my window and breathed in all that familiar air, the clean smell of the salt water and evergreen trees and my heart sighed as home neared.  After a long trip there is nothing so beautiful as HOME.