Showing posts with label utah. Show all posts
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Leaving Brigham City
Hi Everyone!
Yesterday was our day to tour the area near Brigham City.
We went first to the very nice Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge Visitor's Center. It sits right off the Interstate. I'm not sure the birds really like the Interstate, but it was convenient access. The weather was cold, wet and raw with sleet as we drove around the loop in the refuge which was at least 30-miles around. We came to know that the "refuge" was not really a "refuge" as the bird hunters were evident everywhere. I think they were hiding in their little camo boats, but we knew they were there by their white pick-ups that were everywhere. (Comment: Are white vehicles a Mormon thing? People here have mostly white vehicles, but there are a fair number of black, as well). We saw a slew of coots, a few pelicans and many harriers, but no birds with any real shooting value. No doubt they saw the hunters, too, and took off for warmer climes.
From there we stopped for lunch at the Golden Spike Cafe in Corrine, UT, enroute to the Golden Spike National Historic Site in the Promentory Mountains. We passed a huge, sprawling complex, spread over the hills of an outfit called "ATK Launch Systems" which obviously had very "top secret" trappings. We saw a missile on prominent display in front of the main complex. We realized that part of this organization was Thiokol (Sp?) which, of course, is famous for their "O-rings" on the Space Shuttle Challenger's launch rocket that belew out and resulted in the death of all of the astronauts back in 1986.
The Golden Spike site was very interesting. The highlight was the two replica steam locomotive engines that they run up and down the tracks outside the visitor's center. I have attached a few pictures for you. As you can see, the elevation was 4505', and they had snow the night before.
Well, we awoke to snow on the ground this morning and will head for a hopefully warmer Moab, UT, later as soon as we can get our utilities disconnected and the tow vehicle reconnected.
More later...
Love, Rich
Yesterday was our day to tour the area near Brigham City.
We went first to the very nice Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge Visitor's Center. It sits right off the Interstate. I'm not sure the birds really like the Interstate, but it was convenient access. The weather was cold, wet and raw with sleet as we drove around the loop in the refuge which was at least 30-miles around. We came to know that the "refuge" was not really a "refuge" as the bird hunters were evident everywhere. I think they were hiding in their little camo boats, but we knew they were there by their white pick-ups that were everywhere. (Comment: Are white vehicles a Mormon thing? People here have mostly white vehicles, but there are a fair number of black, as well). We saw a slew of coots, a few pelicans and many harriers, but no birds with any real shooting value. No doubt they saw the hunters, too, and took off for warmer climes.
From there we stopped for lunch at the Golden Spike Cafe in Corrine, UT, enroute to the Golden Spike National Historic Site in the Promentory Mountains. We passed a huge, sprawling complex, spread over the hills of an outfit called "ATK Launch Systems" which obviously had very "top secret" trappings. We saw a missile on prominent display in front of the main complex. We realized that part of this organization was Thiokol (Sp?) which, of course, is famous for their "O-rings" on the Space Shuttle Challenger's launch rocket that belew out and resulted in the death of all of the astronauts back in 1986.
The Golden Spike site was very interesting. The highlight was the two replica steam locomotive engines that they run up and down the tracks outside the visitor's center. I have attached a few pictures for you. As you can see, the elevation was 4505', and they had snow the night before.
Well, we awoke to snow on the ground this morning and will head for a hopefully warmer Moab, UT, later as soon as we can get our utilities disconnected and the tow vehicle reconnected.More later...
Love, Rich
From Brigham City, UT
Hi Everyone!
Well, here we are in Brigham City, UT. It is snowing in the Wasatch above us. It is cold and overcast here. We are going out to the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge later today and probably on to the Golden Spike Historical Site. I doubt it will be conducive to putting the boats in the water at Bear River. We will be moving on to Moab, UT, tomorrow as we want to pass through Salt Lake while everyone is in church. We only have to have some concern for the snow conditions in the mountains as they are talking about "feet" of snow and I don't know these mountains well enough to know where those feet might be falling...
WiFi here at KOA works surprisingly well. Guess these computers will come in handy. It does make it harder to remain ignorant of the things going on in the world at large as I had hoped. In the old days you kinda dropped out of sight of the rest of the world...no longer... Karen even read the Spokesman online this morning! We are watching the SNL skits as well.
The visit with the Earnests went well and Karen had a great time with Kaylee and Rudy as could be predicted.
All the new equipment has performed well which was not a given! I had an episode of Alzheimers last night and couldn't get the CRV disconnected from the RV and Karen had to help me. Glad I have her along... We'll put some miles on the CRV today.
I even slept through the night, three successive nights! I guess I was right about getting away from APS!
That's all for today. More later...
Love, Rich
Well, here we are in Brigham City, UT. It is snowing in the Wasatch above us. It is cold and overcast here. We are going out to the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge later today and probably on to the Golden Spike Historical Site. I doubt it will be conducive to putting the boats in the water at Bear River. We will be moving on to Moab, UT, tomorrow as we want to pass through Salt Lake while everyone is in church. We only have to have some concern for the snow conditions in the mountains as they are talking about "feet" of snow and I don't know these mountains well enough to know where those feet might be falling...
WiFi here at KOA works surprisingly well. Guess these computers will come in handy. It does make it harder to remain ignorant of the things going on in the world at large as I had hoped. In the old days you kinda dropped out of sight of the rest of the world...no longer... Karen even read the Spokesman online this morning! We are watching the SNL skits as well.
The visit with the Earnests went well and Karen had a great time with Kaylee and Rudy as could be predicted.
All the new equipment has performed well which was not a given! I had an episode of Alzheimers last night and couldn't get the CRV disconnected from the RV and Karen had to help me. Glad I have her along... We'll put some miles on the CRV today.
I even slept through the night, three successive nights! I guess I was right about getting away from APS!
That's all for today. More later...
Love, Rich
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