The trick we found is summer is OK as long as you are willing to wake before dawn. . Go out see the sunrise and enjoy the park until 10. Then go in and take a nap/relax until after 3. After 3 you can start to go out again and enjoy the sunset.
That was how we enjoyed the grand canyon. The first day we stayed out past 10, I was shocked at how quickly the park filled with idiots. (There was one family. The teen boy was standing on top of this pillar nothing around him but a steep 2 mile drop, he had to have jumped from the ledge to get on it. And there was his mother watching him taking pictures :/ ) But its seemed most left a little after 3 and you could enjoy yourself again.
I used to work in Grand Teton National Park. It always amazed me how many people didn't get out and about until after 10. By then you've missed almost all of the wildlife and your staring at other people doing stupid stuff rather than the park.
Speaking of stupid stuff, any of you see that article recently of the lady petting a wild buffalo? This is when I truly understand Darwinism...,
I used to work in Grand Teton National Park. It always amazed me how many people didn't get out and about until after 10. By then you've missed almost all of the wildlife and your staring at other people doing stupid stuff rather than the park.
Speaking of stupid stuff, any of you see that article recently of the lady petting a wild buffalo? This is when I truly understand Darwinism...,
Hey Phil some days are like that . I'm having one of those so here I am and should be working on something . got on a jacket and thinking about turning on the heat :/ promised Ben rotisserie chicken tonight too and it's gone dismal out no sun and cool . A nice long nap would be good bout now or a shot . enjoy the game
Oh wow -- is it starting to hit you yet? X2! We are working on relocating back to the PNW (Oregon to be exact) -- it's time to go "home" -- not sure if it will be bigger or better, but it will be back to our families and that is something we are both very ready for.
I could handle the PNW as long as I was on the back side of the mountains. On the coastal side it's not bitter cold, it's just damp, dreary, drizzly and gray a lot of the time. Keeps things incredibly green though. (My parents are in NW Washinton) I'm wired to run on sunshine, and if I didn't see the sun for a month straight, I'd be hanging from the rafters. That said, there are inland places up there that would be great for me,
I could handle the PNW as long as I was on the back side of the mountains. On the coastal side it's not bitter cold, it's just damp, dreary, drizzly and gray a lot of the time. Keeps things incredibly green though. (My parents are in NW Washinton) I'm wired to run on sunshine, and if I didn't see the sun for a month straight, I'd be hanging from the rafters. That said, there are inland places up there that would be great for me,
The exact location is TBD -- somewhere in the general area of the Portland metro -- DH's parents and my mom/sister are in that general area with the former being about 40 minutes North-ish and my mom/sister being a little over an hour to the South.....so anywhere in between will be great, jobs will have a lot to do with just where we settle. I can't wait to be living somewhere that we can wake up one day and decide to "run over to the coast for the day" again.....and to be able to see our families whenever we want.
A goodly chunk of my family's in the Willamette Valley, with some up in Washington. Wouldn't it be funny, if...? Though I don't think any of my family's where you are. Can't be sure, though, since I've pretty much always been the out-of-touch one.
I could handle the PNW as long as I was on the back side of the mountains. On the coastal side it's not bitter cold, it's just damp, dreary, drizzly and gray a lot of the time. Keeps things incredibly green though. (My parents are in NW Washinton) I'm wired to run on sunshine, and if I didn't see the sun for a month straight, I'd be hanging from the rafters. That said, there are inland places up there that would be great for me,
Eh, sun's fine--certainly prettier than gray all the time. That said, some clouds make for a more interesting sky than unrelieved blue for months (unrelieved blue for a couple days is nice, though). Then again, the normal pattern for summer around here is blue sky=wind=cold, overcast=less cold.
And I'll take the sun for a weekend max... Love it... almost like home... just missin' my Pacific coast... Go shoot that possum and toss the trap and shoot the rats!! Thanks! Loving our green!
I love ours, too. (I live in the thin green stripe going down the middle of NM along the muddy Rio Grande.) It's just the brilliant blue sky that does it for me. Hope you can handle the sun for a little more than that - it's a long way to come visit me for just a few days!
No, y'see, she'd be visiting me, and stopping at your place on the way here and/or the way back Huh, I thought I had more quotes after this Listening to Mr. P doing soundchecks in the living room--singing "Testing the mic, testing the mic" to the tune of "Stairway to Heaven." Much funnier than it reads here...
Good morning Oz! It's a nice one this morn! Oh my gosh! Yes, it's starting to sink in! Her friends slot of them are leaving state for college! I'm so glad she's going to Fort Hays State university across town
It's really hard to believe that 18 years has flown by! This is her last week of school!!! Graduation is on the 15th. She does have 1 more game this Thursday. Trying to get her party stuff together and organized. She's living on the dorms this fall she wants to experience the whole college thing. She's such a good girl. We put a book of pictures together for her. The last page says
"Don't cry because it's over...
Smile because it happened...
I am already having basket case moments!
. Go out see the sunrise and enjoy the park until 10. Then go in and take a nap/relax until after 3. After 3 you can start to go out again and enjoy the sunset.
. enjoy the game
ain't no leaves on them trees Phil How much longer before you green up?
And it rarely even frosts here.
Huh, I thought I had more quotes after this 
Listening to Mr. P doing soundchecks in the living room--singing "Testing the mic, testing the mic" to the tune of "Stairway to Heaven." Much funnier than it reads here...
