Some thoughts on our travels thus far

We have already seen and experienced so many amazing and beautiful parts of our country.  From the mountains to the prairies.  We've driven through field after field of corn and waving grasses.  We've been in cities and at a state fair.  We've smelled the ocean and the pine forests.  We've looked down upon badlands and canyons, or up at so many majestic mountains.  I love the following quote for the veritable truth that it holds:

"There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred."  Theodore Roosevelt

He couldn't be more right!  What foresight men such as Stephen Mather, John Muir, George Dorr, John D. Rockefeller had.  We were lucky to have presidents in place that protected these places and created our national park system.

In all of what we've seen, however, I must admit to missing the foliage season happening right now in New England.  That is until we came across Rt. 64 in New Mexico from Pagosa Springs to Taos through the Carson National Forest.  We were stunned to see the aspen trees in their full glory!!!

So now I've had my foliage fix for a little while; at least until we head across Independence Pass in Colorado.  Hopefully, we will see more trees in their glory there!

~Karen