Entering Idaho

Just inside the Idaho Boarder. We figure the yellow flowers are to some sort of crop.



Snake River, ID

Wasatch Area, Utah

Payson, Utah - When you have mountains you can advertise your High School on the Mountain.


An old factory in the Provo area.



Pleasant Grove


Paragliders on Point of the Mountain



DT Salt Lake


A passing UHP trooper.



Woods Cross


Hill AFB Museum

Mount Timpanogos Temple, Pleasant Grove, Utah

I drove around Pleasant Grove and drove up to the Mount Timpanogos temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and took some pictures. I think I have more pictures of this time period but there on a different camera. So some of this might get a little jumbled time wise.


Yes, I took this from my car. Excellent isn't it.


And the Title Piece.

Kansas and Tulsa

On the way to Kansas we saw this beautiful sunset. Of course, I haven't learned cameras well enough to capture the sunset the way we see it but this one still gives you a general idea of how beautiful it was.


The Tulsa Skyline. Taking a new way home.


The BOk Center, and the Tulsa Skyline. Not a fan.

Reno Drive, Downtown OKC & Stockyard City

Either a Farmers Market or an old Farmers Market. The question is how old is it really? Is that real Mission style architecture or copy? The other question is is it still used? Obviously not on weekdays.


The Entrance to Stockyard City.


Stockyard City



Police patrolling the Oklahoma River.


An old truck at an old service station near the Farmers Market.

Vinita, OK & The OTR McDonalds

Picher, Ok - A Modern Ghost Town

Picher used to be a zinc and lead mining town until 1970. In 2006, the federal government made it a superfund site to clean up the toxic waste, and paid people to leave. The piles of mine waste (called chat) around the town and neighboring areas are blowing around freely. Some of the piles even looked like they were moving, alot like sand dunes in Saudi Arabia which are slowly moving and sometimes swallow towns. The chat in the air is believed to increase the cancer rates and the amount of autistic children in this town.

We drove through it on our way home from Kansas City in April and wondered why it was abandoned so we looked it up. Here are some sites:

http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/06/30/picher-oklahoma/

http://www.grandlakevisitor.com/pichersuperfundsite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma

A building damaged by tornado.


An abandoned home.


The environmental clean up crew.


The Museum of Mining for the area.


Picher Water Tower.


The Gorilla for the Picher Schools.




One of the many chat piles scattered around the area. There were about five right in town.