Summer and Fall 2024

Wigwam Motel, Holbrook, Arizona – you can actually book a room in one of these wigwams!

Desert Center, California – ghost town

Palm Springs, California

Venice Canals, Venice, California

Old timey telephone, Gamble House, Pasadena, California

Los Angeles, California – I want pie!

Los Angeles, California

Payson, New Mexico – campsite

Keeler, California – ghost town – near the eastern Sierras

For all you nerds out here – Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project – Tonopah, Nevada

the road – pretty desolate – somewhere in the Nevada desert

camping spot near Vernon, Utah – fishing at sunset

Family time in Utah with Max and Whitney – so much Mexican food, so little time

camping near climbing wall, Lander, Wyoming

along the road near Sturgis, South Dakota – abandoned farmhouse

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – yes Obama Cookies…the best cookie I’ve ever had! Obama visited this bakery in 2008, bought some cookies and apparently the rest is history.

steam trains in Scranton, Pennsylvania

Dayton, Ohio – Wright Brothers bicycle shop

sunflower field, somewhere in northwestern South Dakota

dive bar, Miles City, Montana

line of smoke from western wildfires – Montana

Beartooth Pass, Montana near Yellowstone

favorite public restroom at Shine Beer Sanctuary, Bozeman, Montana – the dude abides

made it to Vancouver and got to eat the famous Japadog – British Columbia, Canada

The Raubvogels came to visit, lunch with Noah on Denman Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Max, Noah and Matt at the Richmond Night Market, amazing Chinese food, ambiance and colorful lights, Vancouver, BC, Canada

biking around Vancouver with Max, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Matt and Max biking in the Mt Seymour Demonstration Forest, North Vancouver, BC, Canada

these 2 pigeons were our constant companions on the porch of our Airbnb, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Zanes, Fairhaven, Bellingham, Washington has apparently gone out of business – had to document this before it goes away…

hiking near Twisp, Washington – Matt made a friend

Glacier National Park, Montana

North Dakota

ending with a few animals – best part of our travels…prairie dogs at Devil’s Tower, salamander in Ojai, California, ants in Wyoming, mountain goats in Montana

10 thoughts on “Summer and Fall 2024

  1. These are stunning and some are mournful too, of an era long past.. I love the farmhouse by the old fence (shades of Andrew Wyeth, and the panorama of the highway to the horizon-lots of Ansel Adams feel there. You have a trained :eye”, Heidi!

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  2. Amazing pictures. You capture so much of the beauty of the places you visit, and so much of the desolation. Wonderful that you got to spend time with your sons. Our grandson is obsessed with steam engine trains so I will share the PA. Obama cookies! Who knew?

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  3. Heidi your pictures are Amazing!! They get better and better! Thanks for including me in your e-mail. I love following you and Matt on your trips. ❤️

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  4. Spectacular photos Heidi- thanks so much for sharing your exciting adventure!!
    Loved “The Dude” bathroom!

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  5. Marvelous (as always) and moving. Thanks, Heidi, for sharing the world as you see it. Now, I am going to go book a stay in a tee pee!

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