Morning hike in Frisco, then a beautiful drive over the Continental Divide via Loveland Pass. I know I'm overusing the superlatives in this blog, but we really are seeing so many spectacular places!
Got to our friends Jim and Sandy with time for dinner and a nice neighborhood walk. Since the altitude is "only" 5,430 ft., no panting was required!
The day started with exciting news: we can move into our new home on Aug. 10! Don't know yet if we can have our furniture delivered that day, but it'll be close! The porch won't be finished yet, but they're letting us go ahead and move in. OK: back to the regularly scheduled program. Started with a walking tour that was about the history of Nashville including, of course, important places related to country music but not limited to that. Women's suffrage passed by 1 vote after one state representative changed his vote to spruce it after being lobbied by his mother. Bike racks and bus stops have musical motifs. We visited both the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and the new National Museum of African-American Music. The latter was dealing with the whole history of African-American music from slave times to the present. The Country Music museum was mostly about the headliners (and the wild costumes and sometimes instruments), but had a special exhibit about Boud...
Started with a nice local history museum in Driggs. Mostly about pioneers and ranching, somehow it was nice to see some well-worn and obvious much-loved saddles. Also a list of how many lashes kids got for various misbehaviors as well as rules for the teachers. Of course, women lost their job if they married. (For those missing rock pictures, it's there--the water is flowing over volcanic tuff.) Then went to both Lower and Upper Mesa Falls. The lower falls were beautiful, but the upper falls truly spectacular. Dinner was delicious: elk ravioli in a wild mushroom sauce.
We made it! Wonderful ramble across the US, but we're happy to stay put for a while. We're now comfortably settled in a friend's place at Carol Woods while she's at her family's place in New Hampshire. We'll stay here until we move into our own place on Aug. 10. This will be the last blog post since the trip is over!
So nice to see you guys and show you around the mountains as part of your great big journey home! :)
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