The short and sweet: Andrea and the kids leave me at home and drive to Montana for Ronan convention. Visit Glacier Park after and Crater's of the Moon on the way to Boise. I meet them there and we catch Parma convention, then head west into Oregon. Spend a day at Crater Lake, two days in Northern California to see the Redwoods. Visit Lassen Volcanic National Park on the way back west, stopping briefly to peer across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and testing the brakes in the Colorado mountains before dropping back down onto the Long Flat of Kansas and Missouri. Home. Whew.
A few highlight pictures:
The Crew at Craters of the Moon
A quick break before heading down the trail to Crater Lake from the rim
The scale of the redwood tree is hard to capture.
Parking the van next to one helps. Kind of.
A happy pair, ready to head home.
