morning snowshoe

Today I spent the morning snowshoeing in the beautiful desolation wilderness in south lake tahoe.  We went out to see someones camp (amazing) and then continued to the soda springs (very cool...and pictured below)

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uh-ohhh!

Sorry all, with all the driving and the moving to the other side of the country and the apartment hunting and the job stuff, I haven't really had a chance to update this ol thing in a bit.  In fact, I've completely lost track...I know I have taken at least one photo per day except one day...thats right...Shelby went one whole day without taking a single photo!  Kind of impressive in its own little way, except for that one photo per day challenge I have undertaken...but I'll make up for it!  Here are some more trip photos and some more recent Cali/Sacramento photos, bringing us up to date: Valentines day, every single girls favorite holiday!

Fluffy Clouds of Utah

Blue Sky, Red Mountains, White Snow...Utah

Sunset in Utah....

Sunrise in Nevada!

Pops in the fogshine....Nevada

My lil girl, in her new home, after her bath, isn't she precious?

Sacramento Morning Sunshine!

Of course I found a brewery, as my dad said, I'm more of a saloon girl than a salon girl any day.  

So that my friends, brings us to today, heart day.  Sadly, I have not left the hotel yet except for a brief foray to the airport at 4am, which was not prime photo-taking-time so I'm forced to find you something valentines photo worthy from here.  (here being in bed in my jammies)  This is what I found, Mr. Smiley!  See, even my sink drain is happy to be here!

I think he's winking at you....Happy <3 Day!!!

Photos Posted: Lots, and not enough...but lets go with 61

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The Shoe Tree!

Dad and I were cruising along, somewhere in Nevada today, on the very last leg of our journey before we hit the Sierra Nevada and we came upon this:

I quickly pulled over to investigate and it turns out its a shoe tree.  It was draped in hundreds of pairs of shoes!  Hanging from laces or tied end to end, shoes dangle all over this tree and cover the ground all around it.  I tried to add mine, but they didn't have laces.

When we got to the hotel I googled shoe trees, just out of curiosity.  It was interesting enough that I figured someone must have mentioned it in passing...and I was right.  I found this shoe tree website, and the very tree that we went to was mentioned.  Dad and I discussed and decided that if we tried to start one of these in VT someone would probably arrest us, or at least fine us for littering.  Anyway, we thought this was a really neat discovery!

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time is limited

Because I'm really tired, I'm going to keep this quick, but i'll fill you all in on the details and post the rest of the photos later.  For now I'll post one for yesterday:

thats the most interesting part of Nebraska I saw.  After that we popped down in to Kansas, then over to Colorado for dinner in Boulder and then a night in Idaho Springs.  We got there in the snow and the dark, and woke to crisp clear blue skies.  Only then did we realize we were in one of the most beautiful places on earth.  Some highlights:

So thats yesterday and today.  I'll post more soon, there are dozens more pics of Colorado and then on into Utah that I will share sometime, but for now its bed time.  Good night everyone!  I'm finally in Pacific time, my new timezone.  Its 9:30 here, but in my head its 12:30.  Sleep calls.  

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on the road

i didn't have internet access over these last couple of days so i have a few photos to post today to make up for it, the first day we drove to Middlebury, hit up Otter Creek Brewing and then had dinner at my Aunt and Uncles house, this photo is for that day, February 5th, taken in Underhill, VT of a slightly different view of Mt Mansfield.

The next morning, the 6th, we passed from VT to NY (which I've seen just about all of and didn't find anything worth photographing on 90W) then into PA, and finally ended up in OH. This brings us to today, up at 5, on the road by 5:30, we passed from OH to IN, popped up into MI just to say we'd been there, had breakfast in Michigan City, IN.  From there we hit Iowa and headed straight on through to Nebraska, where we are now, on the outskirts of Omaha, watching the superbowl at the Red Carpet Inn.  Here are some photo highlights (which count for yesterday and today's photo of the day):

click on the thumbnail for the bigger picture.  We've been cruising through pretty quickly up until this point, tomorrow we will probably start slowing down, but who knows.  Only time will tell!  Wish us luck!

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Johnson State

I don't know much about the school but they certainly have a beautiful campus!  

Bye bye Johnson, I'm hitting the road tomorrow afternoon, let the road tripping begin!  My updates might be a little less regular from the road, but a photo will be taken every single day and posted at the earliest possible opportunity! 

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josey-jose

I have just a few days left with my darling pooch before I head off to Cali and have to leave her behind, so bear with me while I post lots of pictures of my doggy looking cute!

just look at that face!

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