Friday, June 12, 2009

The Rocky Mountain Trip


For years now we had wanted to take a trip through the Rocky Mountains since some friends made this trip and told us about it. In fact, we used their itinerary as a starting point – the route, the sights to see, etc. – in planning our trip.

The itinerary calls for us to fly to Calgary in Canada, to rent an RV there, to drive south into Montana, through Idaho and Wyoming into Utah and back north through Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana and back to Calgary, seeing all the scenic places along the way. The crowning glory is to be a three day stay in Calgary to take in the annual rodeo called the Calgary Stampede, a giant event with all the requisite horsemanship and cowboy skills and thundering chuck wagon races – so we were told. After years of putting it off we committed ourselves to actually do it this year. So, here goes.

P.S.: I intend to report my observations and impressions periodically from the road. It won’t be real-time because I won’t always have the opportunity to write about the day’s events or won’t have an Internet connection at every campground.

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