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Summer Vacation
by chuck woolery at 07:29 PM on August 12, 2004
As the new person in my office I am the low man on the totem pole as far as selecting when I get to go on vacation. Accordingly I only get a couple long weekends over the summer, and probably a week or two in the fall. Ah well.
This weekend coming up (fri, sat, sun) is one of my long weekends, and I am going on a little roadtrip with my girlfriend and one of her buddies. Whoo...
We are going to the "International Peace Park", Glacier / Waterton national parks.
The parks straddle the US / Canada Border, with Waterton in Alberta and Glacier in Montana (see map). They offer some amazing scenery, and a amazing high country road through Logan's pass known as the Going to the Sun Road. I've been over the pass a couple times, but I am amazed every time I go over it. The pass is spectacular, although not for those that are afraid of heights. The road has some sections were it seems like you're looking down a thousand feet to the bottom of the cliff your on (although it's probably on a few hundred).
Last year we attempted to go over the pass, but were unable to due to forest fires that closed over 1/2 the road. This year has been more rainy, so the pass is open as of today. Good good.
A trip I'd heartily recommend to anyone, almost as good as the comparable highway in Canada, the Icefields Parkway.
comments (6)
One of 10 duplicate entries. Trying to delete the other 9... Stupid website took way too long to respond, and pressing save a couple times means duplicate entries. Hopefully by the time anyone is reading this it's down to 1...
by chuck woolery at August 12, 2004 8:10 PM
My own post and I notice 4 or 5 grammer mistakes, after I posted it of course. oops, at least their is only 1 post now...
by chuck woolery at August 12, 2004 8:35 PM
Hey, feel good, it took you 10 re-posts to get 50 errors. It usually only takes me one.
I can't get into the control panel, and I've not gotten a single email today (usually get several hundred, mostly spam). So I think something weird is happening with the server.
by mg at August 12, 2004 9:00 PM
PS: I wish I was going on vacation.
by mg at August 12, 2004 9:00 PM
Looks fine to me. I will have to check out the scenic linx later though. Hey, if you want to see a scenic, fun place, go to Lake Tahoe.
by anna at August 13, 2004 7:32 AM
That sounds wonderful Chuck! Sean & I want to take a day-trip Sunday to a beach in the vicinity that allows dogs...
There's like, one beach. And it's getting hit by Charley, so we'll see.
Have a blast! I really want to just tour the country in a convertible some day. Can I? Can I?
by Linz at August 13, 2004 1:08 PM