Road Trip 2021 in Photos
At the end of July, we took a Great West Road Trip, driving 3500+ miles, seeing lots of friends and family, visiting places we hadn’t been or hadn’t seen for decades.
Quick drive summary:
Medford, OR (home) to
Pendleton, OR (1 night) to
Coeur d’Alene, ID (1 night) to
Bozeman, MT (2 nights, saw friends & Nelly!) to
Yellowstone National Park (1 night in West Yellowstone, MT, 2 days in the park) to
Cody, WY (1 night) to
Laramie, WY (3 nights, family wedding) to
Frisco, CO (2 nights, saw friends) to
Arches National Park & Moab (1 night at Red Cliffs Lodge coolest hotel on the trip) to
Salt Lake City, UT (1 night, saw the city and the Great Salt Lake) to
Boise, ID (1 night) to
Sunriver, OR (1 night, saw friends) to
Medford, OR (home)
Quick notes:
A mix of pro photos and phone photos, some through the car window. Excuse bug splatter.
Super hot for all of the trip and super smoky for most of it.
Smoke makes for not-so-awesome photos, flat skies and weird orange-y tinges.
Northeastern Oregon/Southeastern Washington were not what we thought they would look like, much more flat & brown than hilly & green.
Nelly was awesome. I miss live music. PS you can buy legit 6-packs of Coors Light, with the plastic, at fairs in Montana.
No, we were not the requisite 25 yards from the bison, one was sleeping in the parking lot and we didn’t even see him, the other was right next to the road as we were driving into the Lake Lodge at Yellowstone Lake.
The hike to Delicate Arch was worth the challenge.
The Western US is very empty (I know this, just needs to be said.)
