May 2, 2013 - We continue north to Brigham, UT

We got on the road about 11:30am today and drove 296 miles to Brigham City, UT. We stopped at Camp Walmart and did some shopping. Wildlife today consisted of about a dozen mule deer and four elk. All along a creek where the grass was coming up early.

Mar 30, 2013 - Brigham City, UT

From Green River, UT we traveled I-70 to U.S. 6 to I-15 through Salt Lake City. Happy to say that the road construction on I-15 in and around SLC is finished. We stayed at Golden Spike RV in Brigham City at $31/night. This is an older park and quite a tight fit for bigger rigs. The manager was great though and we parked right near the office and laundry so it was very convenient.

Sep 4, 2012 - Goodbye Yellowstone, hello Utah!!

We left Yellowstone's Madison campground this morning in cool 32F weather and sadly bid farewell to this beautiful park. We certainly enjoyed our stay here and leave with so many memories, photographs and tired legs from hiking nearly 20 miles of trails in the park. We took over 2,500 photos and nearly three hours of movies; biggest problem is identifying each and every scene later, mostly from memory. Although we kept a written log we don't have much of a digital record since we rarely had power while camping in the park and got to the...

Sep 8, 2011 - Golden Spike in Utah

We are on the road headed back to Texas. Today we stayed in Brigham City, UT near where the Golden Spike Natl Park is. That is where the two railroads meet east and west. The Central Pacific broke ground in January 1863 and Union Pacific in December. In May 1869 Congress declared the meeting place to be Promontory Summit in Utah with a Golden Spike driven in the rail track. The two locomotives were Central Pacific's Jupiter and Union Pacific's No. 119 pulled up to the one-rail to meet.

Aug 20, 2011 - In the home stretch - Brigham City, Utah

We're in the home stretch! Arrived at Brigham City, Utah this afternoon. They have a really nice campground here. Couldn't find an Elks Lodge to stay at, so we had to go to a commercial campground (besides, we needed to dump our holding tanks - one of the real joys of RVing). It's HOT! 92 degrees when we got here. That's a shock when you've spent all summer in the 50s and 60s, with an occasional 70 thrown in. We expect to get to Rawlins, WY tomorrow and home on Monday. We're kind of sad the "adventure" is almost over, but we're looking...

Aug 6, 2011 - Golden Spike National Historic Site

We spent the day visiting the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory Summit Utah. It is a 36 mile drive out to the park in the barren wilderness just north of the northern banks of the Great Salt Lake. The significance of the event which occurred on May 10, 1869 cannot be overstated. The west coast Central Pacific Railroad was joined to the east coast Union Pacific Railroad when the rails met at this location and the final spikes were placed in a special Laurel wood railroad tie. The feat of engineering was unparalleled and the...

Aug 5, 2011 - Cheyenne to Brigham City,Utah

We left Cheyenne at 8:30AM and made the drive of 460 miles to Brigham City,Utah in 8 hours. We stayed at a beautiful RV park, the Brigham City KOA, at the base of Mount Willard-- a 9645 ft peak of granite. The drive was long but full of quiet beauty. The massive blue sky was filled with puffs of cottony white clouds. The endless ribbon of blacktop seemed to end in the distant sky as it rolled over the amazingly barren ground covered with various tones of brown grasses. Dry arroyos and mammoth stone mountains broke the brown monotony. Oil...

May 21, 2011 - Wasatch Mountains, Salt Lake City, Kaysville, Brigham, Utah

Before we pulled out of Moab, we took the MH to a tire store in town and had them check the air pressure in the tires as our pressure monitoring system was telling us we had a couple of low tires - it was right too. We then hit the road toward Brigham City in the rain and we started having problems with our windshield wipers again. We made it to Springville, Utah and decided to spend our first night in a Walmart parking lot. The rain broke for a short while and the view of the snow covered Wasatch Mountains was magnificent. We did a little...

Sep 15, 2010 - North Fork, ID - Brigham UT

Made our appointment at 8AM. Jacks are repaired according to the Service Rep and mechanic and ready to go. We have to wait until 2 in the afternoon for the toilet parts to show from UPS. By 2:30 we’re on the road again heading south down Rt 93 the Lewis & Clark route. We make it over the top at Lost Trail Pass at 7014 feet. About 5 o’clock we call it enough and find Josephine’s Pizza & RV Park. Located on the north fork of the Salmon River just north of North Fork, ID. The owner greets us and we chat a bit as I set up for the night. He...

Aug 26, 2010 - Brigham City, UT

8-26-10 Brigham City, Utah We have done 4 volkswalks since the last entry. The first was in Eaton, Ohio (which was founded by a William Bruce). The next was in Hastings, Nebraska, the home of Kool-Aid. In North Platte, NE, we went to a viewing tower to watch the Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard, the world’s largest railroad classification yard. They handle 10,000 cars a day. The facility is 2,850 acres stretched over 8 miles. They have a repair shop for the engines which has 11 bays. It is an amazing operation! We also got to see Buffalo Bill...

Jul 3, 2010 - Brigham City, UT

Sorry, no pictures today. We were in wide open country today. I84, the Union Pacific Railroad, and the Snake River wandered along together most of the day. Not long after lunch, John hit a small piece of tire retread which flipped up and tore the valve off the black water pipe (that's the nasty stuff). He saw the hose cap flapping in the wind. We were close to a rest area, so we stopped. He was able to stop the dripping. We called our emergency service people who gave us two phone numbers of repair shops in Brigham City, UT. But, one...

May 3, 2010 - North to Northwest

The last couple of days before we left Phoenix the temperature was in the mid-to-upper 90’s, so we were glad to be heading to cooler climes. Little did we know . . . . Our first day we drove north to Flagstaff, expecting that we might see some snow flurries late in the day (so we got an early start), but the weather was lovely . . . until we got about 20 miles south of Flag. The snow flurries apparently beat the forecast because it was beginning to come down in earnest, although the road stayed clear. We turned onto Interstate 40 for the 5...