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Picking up where we left off, we drove away from Devil's Tower and continued on toward Gillette, WY.  If you're wondering why we picked some of these places to stop, it was because DH had dialysis appointments set up before we left CA and the availability and location of appropriate facilities somewhat decided our stopping points.  Anyway, we ended up going through some more mountains to get there and this time it was snowing quite heavily for awhile.  Of course, it was my turn to drive again and windy mountain roads with slush on the pavement makes for nervous driving.  We made it, of course, and then continued through spectacular mountain scenery with switchback roads cut right out of the rock in some cases.  Getting behind the slowpokes who think speeding up to 25MPH is what the road signs mean made it a little more interesting(!)  We arrived safely in Gillette, and stayed in a sort of industrial area that was nothing to speak of.  With dialysis out...

When last we left our intrepid travelers, they had made it out of the mega  yarn store with only minor damage and yarn, knitting needles, and a cute new bag to show for it.  Our next destination was Scottsbluff, NE and to get there you travel on secondary roads and look out mostly at fields.  Sometimes there are cows. Then comes the magic.  In the middle of these seemingly endless plains, there arises a magnificent stone structure, a giant bluff, or other geologic masterwork.  I haven't figured out how, through exposure to the elements over millions of years, some stone towers/bluffs/hillsides remain while others do not.  In any case, we saw some interesting topography at the Scottsbluff National Monument and again at Chimney Rock, which is a most amazing sight in the middle of a whole lot of nothing. Oh, but there might be snakes.  Probably not on the day we visited, though, since it was cold. The next day we headed out for Rap...

I'm here!  There has again been a significantly long break in blog writing but that doesn't mean I haven't been writing posts in my head all the time.  The person who invents telepathic blog writing will have my business. Anyway, we are currently on an extended road trip from southern California back to Washington.  This is our big "seeing the sights of the West" trip and so far we have covered Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Crazy Horse monument, Mt. Rushmore, and Devil's Tower.  We have stayed in Vegas, Grand Canyon, Durango, CO (great little town), Denver, Scottsbluff, NE, Rapid City, SD, Gillette, WY, and are currently in Cody, WY on the way to Yellowstone.   It's hard to remember what room number, what hotel, and what town we're in... Making things more interesting is the fact that DH has to have kidney dialysis every few days, so we had quite a time planning this trip around cities that had available dialysis facilities on the days that it was n...

What's that, you say?  A knitting blog talking about knitting?  I've had time enough to pout over the ignominious defeat the Seahawks brought upon themselves, so it's back to the other stuff.  I've been knitting and spinning along as usual here in the lovely desert, where it was 89 degrees F two days ago.  Like last winter, we have had unseasonably warm weather just when so much of the country  is facing unusual cold and snow.  Sorry, but there's nothing I can do about it! After showing you the sweater that I made for the Princess, I've slacked off on updating anything, so this will be a show and tell.  I also knit a cowl for her out of The Plucky Knitter Single in the color Rachel.  It was exceedingly soft yarn and very nice to work with.  She probably hasn't worn it since she posed for the photo, but oh well.  She picked out the pattern and seemed to like it. Then by request I made some USC themed socks for Ms. Hollywood as a s...