Month: June 2018

No, it hasn’t happened yet…

For those of you who may be new to the blog, I am having a little contest. Enter “While you’re waiting” in the search box on the Home page to go back to last week and read the details and hazard a guess if you’d like.

You’d be surprised how many times I have just positioned car in the road, or off on the shoulder on either side of the road, so I could just roll down the window and take photos from the air-conditioned comfort of my car. I am trying hard not to”invite the bite”.

Right now it is “only” 98 degrees… but then again it is “only” 847am. Current humidity is 13%. Forecast high today is 112.

When I was in Grand Junction over Memorial Day weekend I discovered that the city feature various pieces of art sculpture all over town.  These metal horse sculptures were in a traffic circle, of all places, as I got off the dreaded interstate on Horizon Drive.  There were a total of 5 horses, 4 full grown and one colt:

And I’ve decided what will be at the top of my list to-do the next time I am in Grand Junction.  When I went to the Visitor Center Saturday morning I saw a brochure for JetBoatColorado – which features a high-speed, daredevil type ride on the Colorado River not far from Grand Junction.  The company also offers a low-speed morning ride along the river to see many scenic views and various wildlife.

(Photo credit: TripAdvisor.com/JetBoatColorado)

I didn’t know about this in advance but may come back to do it some time.  They apparently also operate similar experiences other places so I may run into them somewhere else in my travels.

Here are a bunch of photos taken with my smartphone camera when I was at Goblin Valley State Park near Green River, Utah back on May 28.

Here are a bunch of photos taken with my smartphone camera when I was at Goblin Valley State Park near Green River, Utah back on May 28.

Here are a bunch of photos taken with my smartphone camera when I was at Goblin Valley State Park near Green River, Utah back on May 28.

Here are lots more photos taken with the digital camera when I was at Goblin Valley State Park near Green River, Utah back on May 28.  I posted some other photos a few days after I was there (put Goblin in the search box on the Home page to find that post).

 

 

Here are lots more photos taken with the digital camera when I was at Goblin Valley State Park near Green River, Utah back on May 28.  I posted some other photos a few days after I was there (put Goblin in the search box on the Home page to find that post).

Here are lots more photos taken with the digital camera when I was at Goblin Valley State Park near Green River, Utah back on May 28.  I posted some other photos a few days after I was there (put Goblin in the search box on the Home page to find that post).

Here are lots more photos taken with the digital camera when I was at Goblin Valley State Park near Green River, Utah back on May 28.  I posted some other photos a few days after I was there (put Goblin in the search box on the Home page to find that post).

By the time I was ready to leave the Park to get back to Grand Junction the sun had moved enough that these two formations near the entrance were getting more sunlight on the side facing me (the sun was behind them when I arrived at the Park earlier in the morning).