This year is about travel, at least for the first half of the year.

The Grand Canyon

We went to the Grand Canyon again a couple weeks ago.



There wasn't as much snow as we were hoping for, but there was some, and there was a whole herd of elk. Shal took some video of it.


The next morning when we left, we stopped by Bearizona, a sort of zoo/wild animal park. In one part of the park, there was a pack of wolves that were really curious about our car (we're pretty sure they smelled our dogs).



They also had a really awesome birds of prey show, with hawks and owls and a falcon. They had one of the hawks fly very close to the audience, and on one pass, he flew between me and Shal and his wing clipped my head. This is right before that happened:




Mexico

We'll be heading down to Mexico in a couple of months to see GarageDelFuego and his girl get married. That will be awesome.

This Summer

Nothing's final, yet, but the tentative plan is to take a week-long road trip during the first week of July, roughly following this route:



The highlights of that route:

the 395 along the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains

Camping on the western shore of Lake Tahoe

Mount Lassen and Lassen Volcanic National Park

Visiting my Mom

the Going-to-the-Sun road in Glacier National Park

the Beartooth highway

Yellowstone National Park

Grand Teton National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park

about a dozen national forests

It should be pretty amazing.

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Do you have any travel plans coming up?



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