Keira Photos 2012 Roundup - Part 4 - Our Summer Road Trip

Santa Clara, CA - Last summer at the end of July Keira, Suwei and I took off for a summer road trip to Colorado. Although Suwei had to eventually return for work, Keira and I stayed out in Colorado for a few more weeks to do a little work on the ski condo and visit with Suwei's parents. At the end of August, with the grandparents in tow, we took a very northerly roundabout route to Portland, Oregon to meet up with Suwei again. From there, we all did a mini tour of North Western Washington and Seattle with a little backpacking in Olympic National Park. During that time I took tons and tons of photos. And as usual I just haven't been able to find the time to organize and process them.

Back in December however, I did manage to dig out of the pile, a whole bunch of photos for our yearly Keira photobook. So, without further ado, here is part 4 of our 2012 Keira Photo Roundup, which can serve to be a mini version of the summer road trip post I would have like to have done.

California to Colorado

Suwei and I have made quite a habit of driving out to Colorado (we are actually leaving again in two weeks). For this trip (Summer 2012), we headed out via Yosemite National Park and camped out first night near Crowley Hot Springs close to Mammoth Lakes, CA. Day two we continued  along HWY 120 through Benton Hot Springs all the way to HWY 6.  We then followed Hwy 6 across Nevada and camped at one of the best kept campgrounds we'd ever seen, in Cathedral Gorge State Park near Panaca, NV.  Day 3 we continued along Hwy 6, which joined up with Hwy 50, which joined up with Hwy 70.  We camped that night in the Green River State Recreation Area in Green River, Utah.  Day 4 we finished our trip with one last push to Broomfield, CO.

One of our favorite spots on Tenya Lake, Yosemite National Park, CA.

Hiking out to Crowley Hot Springs, Eastern Sierras, CA.

Scenes from the Road

Cathedral Gorge State Park, NV

A Month in Colorado

Our time in Colorado was spent visiting Suwei's parents, seeing old friends, working on improvements to our place in Keystone, and doing a little mountain biking.

Hiking with Grandpa in Rocky Mountain National Park, CO.

Exploring the Northwest

On August 16, 2012 I loaded up the truck (Really loaded up the truck! Two roof top boxes and we were still stuffed to the gills) and headed north towards Wyoming with my daughter and my wife's parents in tow for a two week tour in the Northwest. The four of us visited quite a few parks in South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Alberta, Idaho, and Washington before finally ending up in Portland, Oregon where we took on yet another passenger and more stuff.  With Suwei back on board we all headed north to Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and up the Washington coast.  We finished up the trip with a three day backpacking trip in Olympic National Park (yet another post I plan on getting to eventually) and a day in Seattle.

Camping next to Sheridan Lake, SD.

Wind Cave National Park / Mt. Rushmore National Monument / Mt. Rushmore National Memorial

Devil's Tower National Monument / Glacier National Park

Iceberg Lake, Glacier National Park, MT

Glacier National Park, MT

Waterton National Park, Alberta, Cananda

Waterton National Park /  Cameron Lake, Waterton National Park / Glacier National Park

Lake Coeur d'Alene, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho / Hudson's Hamburgers, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho / Hanford Reach National Monument, WA

Stonehenge, Maryhill, WA

Multnomah Falls, OR

Camping in Area 51 / Mount St. Helens

Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, WA

End of the Road, Ocean City State Beach, WA

If you missed the first three parts of the Keira 2012 Roundup, please feel free to check out these links:

Part 1 - http://somehowlostagain.blogspot.com/2013/02/keira-photos-2012-roundup-part-1.html
Part 2 - http://somehowlostagain.blogspot.com/2013/04/keira-photos-2012-roundup-part-2.html
Part 3 - http://somehowlostagain.blogspot.com/2013/04/keira-photos-2012-roundup-part-3.html

And here is the link to the slideshow for this post.  There are lots more photos in there (90 to be exact):

Keira 2012 Roundup - Part 4

Photo of the Day - September Roundup

Santa Clara, CA -  I apologize to anyone who is actually still paying attention to this blog.  The whole thing has kind of dropped by the wayside.  I've got so many photos to work on and no way to find the time to post them.  I figure it's better to spend what little free time we have out there living life, then to spend it at home documenting life.

That said, I'd love to get more photos posted, but until things change here at home well... you're stuck with the photo of the day posts.  This is my project to take one photo a day, every day.  The photos are only taken and processed with my Android phone.  It's been quite an interesting exercise and takes up much less time than my other photography habit.  Anyway, I'm also about a month behind on posting those.  So, without any further ado, here are the photos of the day for September.

If you'd like to see comments or find out where the photo was taken, then check out the slideshow linked at the bottom of this post.

That's it for September.  Hopefully I'll get October up before too long.

Here is the link to the slideshow:

Pic of the Day - September