Home to Fairport

As you have heard by now, we have returned for Fairport and to a very suspicious cat - where have they been? "I'm well fed, but where have my owners been, and gladly they didn't bring back any new "family members that I have to break in".

The quick version of the story of the trip is 8,199 miles, start to finish. Along the way, we saw all of the Great Lakes on the same trip, we crossed many rivers, including the Niagara, The Soo, the Mississippi, the Missouri, The Yellowstone, the Galatin, the Madison,the Powder and Platte Rivers, the Firehole River, the Frasier, The Columbia The Colorado,the Mississippi (again) the Ohio and more. We traveled in canyons and to mountain tops (12,400') to be exact),we saw rain forests, and deserts,we saw evidence of volcanic eruptions (My. St Helens) and earthquake landslides - on the Madison River. We met couples from Lancaster England to Canberra, Australia. We watched killer whales, bale eagles, ospreys, grizzlies and wolves,bison and elk;. You could say with some exceptions we saw wildlife ranging from Antelops to Zebras (yes zebras in a pasture along the interstate in Kansas. We visited some old Dickson family destinations, Elkhorn Ranch, Soldiers Chapel on the Galetin River,and Indian Hill and Indian Hill Church. As with any trip, there were highlights, times or locations that just stood out, and will become high on the memory list, before we begin to loose ours. Throughout the trip we both acknowledged that it was a trip that we should have done for you boys (Matthew and Jeffrey)years ago. It is a big and glorious country, not constrained by regional pettiness. It needs to be experienced. And, while we're glad to be back, be warned, we're thinking of our next trip.............