In my boyhood years I had spent a lot of time camping with my folks and my brother, so it was only a matter of time before I went camping with my own young family. Actually, we went car camping.
It was a bit of a stretch, to take our three kids - ages 2, 4 and 6 - on a very long drive, a three week camping trip to Canada and nine western states: Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Washington, Oregon and California. We couldn't stay put very long anywhere; we just kept moving on. But we did see a lot of our
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Rickey , Betsy & Bill testing a double sleeping bag that fit into...
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Our first national park was Zion, in southern Utah. Zion is known for its...
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Betsy & Bill were impressed by those massive walls of rock.
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Seemed it was always time to eat. Our 'dining room' table was usually...
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Pat emptying the ice chest.
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Some water for Betsy.
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Next we visited Bryce National Park. These forests of limestone rock...
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Lots of chipmunks to feed here.
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In Idaho we took a hike around Bear Lake.
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We drove north into Wyoming where we camped for several days in the Tetons...
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A drink for Bill.
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Sunset over Lake Jenny. One night there were so many mosquitoes we ate our...
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Lots of magnificent mountains up here in the Tetons.
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Lots of beautiful trails to run along.
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Maybe it was just a bit early for a two year old to go fishing.
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But a six year old could try.
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Let's cast out there and see what happens ...
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The very first trout that Rick ever caught.
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Another gourmet lunch.
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On to Yellowstone National Park, and the magnificent Yellowstone Falls.
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Another waterfall.
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Crossing the Continental Divide. On one side the water runs west toward the...
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Leaving Yellowstone we headed east to Sheridan, Wyoming where lots of...
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Lots of elk and buffalo live here, too.
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And lots of trout, too. Here's Pat's uncle Bernard fishing in...
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