We drove out of Las Vegas heading west along I-15 and into California. We stopped in Baker and had a fresh strawberry milkshake at the Mad Greek. Just across the street you can see the world's largest thermometer.

You can see the dry Silver Lake with the mountains in the background.

Joshua Trees dot the landscape in this area, they are found in the Mojave desert in California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada at 2,000'-6,000'.

This tree was some blooms on it. They often become very top heavy and fall over.

Here is a corner of Lake Shasta.

I found a road that took us under the bridge along I-5 in the Lake Shasta area.

Mount Shasta is an amazing site, this is a view from Weeds, California.

A favourite stop along the I-5 in Springfield, Oregon at the antique shop called "At Ruthie B's". They serve a lovely tomato basil soup, you can have lunch in one of the display rooms.

This was a pretty pink dogwood that we found in full bloom along the way. Our next stop was home.

Along Rte 12 we drove a winding road above the snow line. We went into Zion National Park Kolob Canyon and drove around.

The roadbed blended nicely with the surrounding area, the skies were an incredible shade of blue with clouds floating by.

We drove over to the Springdale entrance to Zion and drove through the Zion Mount Carmel tunnel and found some amazing topography and views.

The checkerboard mesa is a well photographed site.

Later we drove to the Grand Canyon for some incredible vistas. The far rim is almost 18 miles away.

Almost a mile below the Colorado River winds it way down exposing the layers of the canyon. A watchful raven takes in the views everyday.

If you look closely you can see the river in this photo in the right.

The canyons around Sedona are also breath-taking, can you imagine waking up to this view every day?

April 19th 2008, mom and I went traveling again, we were surprised as we went through Washington state to have it snowing. This is the Snoqualmie Pass along I-90, I like the picture mom took that caught the view in the right mirror.

We stopped in several towns along the way and checked out a number of quilt shops. In Baker City Oregon we stumbled onto a Treasure Hop and went to 8 quilt shops that day. These included La Donna's Fiber Arts and Traditions Quilt shops in Baker City. Then onto the Charm Shack Quilt Shop in Ontario, and Marilyn's Pickets and Patchwork in Nyssa. Then into Idaho and we checked out Cindy's Quilt Shop in Caldwell before bypassing two shops in Kuna and Meridian. We stopped in Boise at Quilt Crossing, Country Lady Quilt shop and Idaho Sewing and Vacuum.

We spent the night in Twin Falls before heading down to Utah.

In Brigham City we went to Village Dry Goods after having a nice tomato based Chicken Tortilla Soup at Idle Isle. Then south to Salt Lake City where in Sandy we went to Quilts Etc. and their annex shops of Quilts Etc. Etc. and the Handmaiden. We looped back up to check out Piper Quilts in SLC and having great green pea soup at the Soup Kitchen.

Our next adventure was stopping in Red Canyon on the way to Bryce Canyon. This canyon is free of charge as it is on the main highway. There is a Ranger Centre, but it was closed for the day when we went by.

The rock formations in this area are magical. There are a couple of arches you can drive through along the highway.

This is my favourite of the National Parks, Bryce Canyon, as you can see they still had a lot of snow in the park. It was very windy and chilly at times but the skies were a wonderful blue colour.

By some of the viewpoints the elevation was so high that the snow was very close by!

The vistas in this park are just so amazing, at times the elevation was over 9,000 feet! The colours in this park are so warm despite the temperature being so cold!

I used my telephoto lens for this shot, imagine how high those pinnacles are in relation to the trees.

Several times we came across some deer grazing, we also saw some wild turkeys running in the bush.

The final morning we went back to Bryce Canyon and went to the Fairyland vista for one last look. It has to last until the next time we come for a visit.