Radically Retired

Tag: Utah

  • 2016 – Gal Pal Road Trip

    2016 – Gal Pal Road Trip

    Carrying on with the incredible travel year that was 2016:

    After hubs and I returned from the all-expenses paid vacay to the Mayan Riviera, things calmed down for a couple of months, and then I headed out on a road trip to Salt Lake City with two long time friends who had joined my MLM team.

    The purpose of the trip was to attend the annual conference of the MLM company I had signed up with.

    In addition to being a learning and team-building experience in SLC, the road trip itself both to and from the conference was fun and interesting.

    Even though none of us belonged to the Mormon faith, Temple Square in Salt Lake City provides a great history lesson about the settlement of the state of Utah.

    Lenna and I just “had” to pose with this fun sign
    The parent company to our MLM company Sherry, Lenna, and Me
    I tasted French Macarons for the first time
    Temple Square is always an interesting visit
    The famous Mormon Tabernacle
    The amazing pipe organ inside the Tabernacle
    How the Mormon Temple was constructed is a fascinating history lesson
    I spied these “on the way by” and commented about the skinny horses
    An unusual way to make a topiary
    Idaho Falls was a great stop on the way home
    My pals, Lenna and Sherry, hamming it up – “posing” like models
    The falls are in the middle of the city

    My dear friend, Lenna passed suddenly and unexpectedly just four years after this trip.

    I’m so happy I have this trip in photos and in memories.

  • 2016 – A Scenic Detour

    2016 – A Scenic Detour

    After touring my cousin around the Las Vegas area for a week, we took her to the plane and then made our way home via a different route than usual.

    My feature photo is of a portion of Arches National Park near Moab, UT. We didn’t take any side roads to see the actual arches, but even without that, the scenery “on the way by” was spectacular.

    We’d hoped to drive from there to Denver, Co.

    At Grand Junction, Co, where we spent the night, we were advised the next morning by the hotel clerk, that there had been a rockslide ahead, so the road we planned to take was closed. We were also informed that roads out of Denver (from our direction) were closed for the winter.

    Enter Plan B:

    We drove on as far as Aspen, Co, toured the place and watched some skiing. Neither of us had been there before, so it was a fun little “been there done that” trip.

    One of the many Aspen ski runs

    After Aspen, we turned around and headed back to Grand Junction.

    From there, we headed north to and through Wyoming and more incredible scenery.

    Hoodoos in South Wyoming

    After Wyoming, it was South Dakota and then North Dakota (which I’ll cover in a future post) and then home.