Tag: Travel
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The Big Bog
Update: I found out from a friend who lives nearby that the bog was also used as a bombing range during and after WWII. A long-gone glacial lake; hundreds of square miles of lowlands, swamps and peat bogs; stolen land, a massive drainage project, land speculation; failed farms and government bailouts … this is a…
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Someone Lost Their Forty
A hundred-twenty years ago lumber was big in Minnesota. The forests in Michigan and Wisconsin were used up. Demand was not used up. Minnesota was next in line. In an era where the natural resources existed to exploit rather than enjoy, most of the valuable trees in Minnesota were logged out and sent down river…
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To Utah, or not to Utah: that is the question
I recently was asked “If I’m driving through Utah, what should I see while I’m there?”. A few decades ago, my impression of Utah – having never been there – was that it was dirt, rocks, abandoned uranium mines, a smelly salty lake and tee-totaling Mormons – none of which were interesting to me. That…
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North to Wyoming
I can’t resist posting a couple more pics of Buckhorn Draw and the Wedge Overlook. We left the area a couple days ago, heading north through Flaming Gorge. This time on the west side of the gorge. To get from east to west one crosses over a gnarly mountain pass. We saw a couple of…
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Buckhorn Draw
We’re camping at the San Rafael Bridge BLM Campground in Buckhorn Draw, in the northern part of the San Rafael Swell. The draw starts near the Wedge Overlook and drops down through a canyon toward the south. The scenery in the Draw is fantastic. It reminds us of the area around Capitol Reef National Park.…
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Old Bones and Crowded Overlooks
Today’s adventure started with a trip to the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in the Jurrasic National Monument. The quarry is the site of the densest collection of Jurrasic dinosaur bones ever found. Fossils and replicas are on display in the visitors center and the dig site. There were only a handful of visitors when we were…
Michael Janke 