A map of the suggestions...

Well I am taking advantage of this quiet time to improve the site. An unresolved part of this whole site is how to display the current suggestions and also to map where we have been.

There are a few travel sites out there that will display where you have been and I may find enough time to experiment with them, but with going to rodeos and doing closeup glamour photos of buffalo and driving around and eating stuff we don't get a lot of free time. Can you imagine? Boy, are we going to need a long vacation when this is over.

Well I have created a map with a some overlays. Four so far, here they are:

Suggested destinations

This is where all of the suggestions that people are making will go. We are using these tidbits to plan our trip. We usually try to restrict our planning to five days maximum so that when a local makes a suggestion that is in the local area we have a flexible enough schedule to squeeze it in.

I have to add in some more suggestions that have recently been made by various locals, so it will be a constantly changing map. The Blue dots are suggested locations. I will probably change the color of these items when we have actually gone to them.


Where we have been so far...

This one is tricky. I don't want to clutter it up with EVERY detail, but I would like to show some of the places we have seen that are between point A and point B. I may just put in the towns that we have spent the night and you guys can assume that we have toured the town. I will also add a mark wherever we have turned off the obvious roads.

This layer has the most backfilling to do. (At this point it only has the last couple of days noted)

Invitations...

These are the invitations that we have received from people to come visit their homes. We are a big fan of invitations because, well, because of everything. The marks do not point to the people's homes, they point to the center of the town they live in. Also there are no last names. Remember, everything that goes through the internet is public.

Next?

This is the layer that will always be wrong. This is a rough plan of which direction we are planning to go. Occasionally there will be an event that we are aiming towards so everything before and after the event is up for change and the actual route is any body's guess.

Put them all together and you get the MAP of our Adventure.

Turn the four layers on and off at will.
The purple squiggly line may irritate you for some reason, so turn it off.

Please send me YOUR suggestions.
I am changing the recommend procedure for this: from now on you should just EMAIL your suggestions to us. Nothing complicated.

The address is

Any comments (pro or con) can also be sent to this address.

If you have pictures, links, or writings to share you can also send them to this address.

So look at the maps, let me know what you think, and what should be added.

Thank you.

Click here to see the MAP of our Adventure.

chemo-sabe said...

Aw shucks, print your rants
(unless they're political...
too much of that crapola...
and you probably would alienate someone).
Other than that, I can't think of anybody's rants I'd rather read!!
I'm so sorry about your pup.
love you
chemo-sabe
August 17, 2007 11:14 AM

Welcome to Wyoming

We are back on the grid for a few days. We left Yellowstone this morning and had to do a detour of 75+ miles to get around the fires. Everything was getting VERY smokey. I am glad we did take the upper route because we got to see a LOT of bison. We were stuck in a bison-jam for a very long time. There isn't any real incentive for them to coordinate when to cross the highway so as soon as one group steps off the pavement there are more stepping on.

We finally got through and saw scenes of the mountains that you usually would only see very early on a misty morning, but it was smoke instead of morning fog.
We dipped back up into Montana and then back into Wyoming. We went over Dead Indian Pass and then swooped back down into the Wyoming that we remember. We were just getting ready to put the camera away because you can only take so many pictures of sagebrush when we came upon a roundup. Cowboys whistling and whooping and lots of cattle going Moooooo.
We are back on the grid for a few days. We left Yellowstone this morning and had to do a detour of 75+ miles to get around the fires. Everything was getting VERY smokey. I am glad we did take the upper route because we got to see a LOT of bison. We were stuck in a bison-jam for a very long time. There isn't any real incentive for them to coordinate when to cross the highway so as soon as one group steps off the pavement there are more stepping on.

We finally got through and saw scenes of the mountains that you usually would only see very early on a misty morning, but it was smoke instead of morning fog.
We dipped back up into Montana and then back into Wyoming. We went over Dead Indian Pass and then swooped back down into the Wyoming that we remember.
We were just getting ready to put the camera away because you can only take so many pictures of sagebrush when we came upon a roundup. Cowboys whistling and whooping and lots of cattle going Moooooo.

Now Beth spent a lot of Saturday mornings watching cowboy movies as a kid and always wanted to be a cowgirl when she got bigger, but she never has been able to whistle and she would probably would have not been as effective with a duck call in her mouth.

Well anyhow, Beth started hopping in her seat until I could stop the car.
She ran across the street taking pictures until I took over so she could resume jumping up and down. She was sooooo excited. This was a big event. Welcome to cowboy territory

2007-08-16 Cowboys

Going for a walk.

1:37pmMST / 11:37amEST

Derek, his Nana, and Foxy his dog going for a walk.

Horses for Maureen

1:31pmMST / 11:31amEST

A quickie post while we have a signal.

1:15pmMST / 11:15amEST
We are driving near the Grand Tetons and we have some reception so I thought that I would type in some of the stuff that I have been writing, but now that we are parked for lunch I have changed my mind, twice.
A few minutes ago in the town of Morin, Wyoming we spotted a herd of horses. So after we took some pictures I decided to upload some horsey pictures for Maureen T.
Maureen likes horses and may feel a connection with horses in Morin Wyoming.

Then I changed my mind again.
Just as we were parking we got a call from my sister Leslie. In fact she is still on the phone with Beth.

Well the news back home is that our trusty dog Foxy died yesterday.
She was about fourteen and a half years old, which adds up to a LOT of wonderful bowls of food.

Derek got her when she was one year old. That means Derek was seven years old, I think.
I will probably write soon about some of the funny things that Foxy did.
She was a great dog. She was our last dog.
Thank you Leslie for taking such good care of her this summer.
She had some kind of heart defib problem since a few days before we sold our house, so this was not unexpected, and she was still happy and healthy until the end.

Anyhow, back to the horses for now. Here are a few pictures Maureen and when we get to Cody and have a signal I will upload a whole group of pictures just for you.

While those are uploading later this week I will be able to type some of the stuff I have been writing in my notebook.
I have been trying to avoid the rants. When i start sputtering about a subject I just wait and write later after something funny happens. My rants and raves will stay in unpublished form so that I don't alienate you guys. I have to do some research before I open my big mouth.

So we are going to Cody soon to see some rodeos and I am assuming that I will have a signal there.

Bye Foxy, have fun rootin around in that big dumpster in the sky.
I bet Derek is so glad to have his dog back.

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chemo-sabe said...
Aw shucks, print your rants (unless they're political...too much of that crapola...and you probably would alienate someone). Other than that, I can't think of anybody's rants I'd rather read!!
I'm so sorry about your pup.
love you
chemo-sabe
August 17, 2007 2:14PM

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Sherm said...
Awww damn. Little Foxmoor is no more.

No wonder Champ has been more cantankerous than usual. He’s pining for his little buddy (and whatever sympathy cheese he can weasel out of us).

Another splash on the ground for dear Foxy.

Hope yer rodeo went well. Go to the BBQ cook-off and eat plenty of hot brown stuff.

There’s someone out there (in Wyoming or an adjoining state) that has an old minuteman missile silo for a home that they have tours of occasionally. A real swords into plowshares kind o’ deal. Or swords into a really cool underground home.

I’ll look for the link but ask around, can’t be too many of them.

Fireworks were epic, so was the traffic. Wouldn't miss it for anything. Over 9000 shots.

Hugs all around. The little one adds kisses.

August 19,2007 10:01 AM

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An artist's Tetons

9:16amMST/7:16amEST

Grand Tetons. We just got a signal so we thought we would send a phone picture of what we are looking at right now. this view made us think of Mia.
WW's Phone

77% and counting

Just a little warning... this is taking sooooo loooooong to upload, there is the possibility that there are one, two, or threeeee copies of each photo. No promises. I am all alone out here. Even the bored teenagers have gone to bed.
Sitting on my group W bench.