It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted anything, but that’s been because I’ve been on the road. I took my two older boys (ages 15 & 12) and flew to Phoenix a couple weeks ago. We visited with my sisters and niece, took care of estate business, figured out who was keeping what of all our parents’ possessions, and all that kind of thing. We took five days to drive home and we visited the following parts of the U.S. National Park System (at each of which we got stamps in our National Park Passport Books):

Navajo National Monument
Old Spanish National Historic Trail
Natural Bridges National Monument
Canyonlands National Park
Arches National Park
Colorado National Monument
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
Curecanti National Recreation Area
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Fort Scott National Historic Site

Go ahead and click on some of these links. Some of our most memorable sites were Bent’s Old Fort, Canyonlands, and Fort Scott.

We also visited Monument Valley and Dodge City, and also got to drive on several roads that were twisty and climbed right up a cliff face. That was quite fun.

Now I have a couple days to regroup and rest before heading back to work on Monday. We’re also hopefully closing on a house tomorrow afternoon. If that works out, then this weekend we’ll also be getting the house ready to move into it.