Throughout our travels, Mike and I share laughter and tears, stories and dreams, with heartbreaks & love dissected. Sometimes it seems the challenges run amuck but we talk it out and bring it back home. Then we get back to celebrating us.
We have lots of stopping conversations such as next stops, pit stops, shopping stops, scenic stops etc. etc. and then the big one …..when to stop. This life has expanded to envelope us totally onto ourselves without the past or a future. However, we know we are getting closer to our future and sometimes we are fearful of that. We know us….a few months after the final stop we will be longing for something we may have skipped or another long ride in the car or another glorious journey to a new place. Do I dare say we are travel addicts?
So now we have traveled through California’s national parks, Sequoia, Kings Canyon & Yosemite. Everything else falls away when yet another new mountain range with mammoth, majestic mountains hits us around the next curve. Mike and I are so lucky to share this splendor together.
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| Internet Photo of Kings Canyon |
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| My photo... |
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| My watercolor |
Mother Nature’s Majesty…I’ve heard the words many times but never have I experienced it so personally. Believe me when I tell you these photos do not do her justice!
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| These are so much more mighty than they appear here. They truly make us feel what it is like to be an ant! |
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| Driving |
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| close-up while driving |
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| Coming around the mountain |
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| This is a close-up of the lime on the rocks. |
When I need to be soothed I go to a warm hug from Mike or a hello and laughter from my children and my granddaughter or a good book with a cup of tea or a glass of wine. But the mountains, oh the mountains, they do something very different. They settle me. They feel like my nest. They wrap their warmth around me like my favorite blanket. They fill me with the awe of what Mother Nature can do. Their power encompasses me like a mother’s love. They have become my new best friends.
Mike and I spent 2 weeks leaving California ( after 5 months!). We exited via Lake Tahoe, Reno, northern Nevada and through the salt flats (amazing!) Now we have “stopped” in Salt Lake City, Utah for 3 weeks. I left Mike safely ensconced in his mecca for genealogy and took off for Atlanta for 9 days to visit with my daughter, Casey and babysit my granddaughter Leah. So much fun! Wine and dine with Casey then Leah brings out the Mother/Teacher in me. But now I am back in Salt Lake City. I will miss the hugs and softness of my two ‘girls’!
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| Leah & Casey, early morn dancing |
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| A woman's work is never done |
In the car with Mike from the airport, there they are, the mountains, this time peaked with snow, and I am settled once again.
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| This is a view from a hill above our place in Salt Lake City. Notice the mountains, they surround us here. |
Now we are off and I am looking forward to meeting my new majestic friends in Bryce Canyon and Capital Reef Parks.
