October 14, 2010

Thursday 14~~~~On our way to Flagstaff, AZ where we will be spending 2 nights, we stopped at the Montezuma National park We go to as many Parks as we come across, kind of the purpose of traveling the United States because that is where the history all began. Of course we always love to add another stamp for our Nat. Park Passport book. (picture of Kent) We filled one book , I put two stamps on each page instead of one and I covered all the pages of the book with white adhesive paper to gain ten or more pages, so now we have another one to fill. Those of you who travel might think about getting one of these books, Every Nat. Park has a validations stamp with the name of the park and the date. Every year since 1987 they have made picture stamps to put in your book by the validation when you go to the park. We look forward to the new pages coming out every year to see what parks we have been to have earned the honor or what ever to get it on a picture stamp. We always get a validation if it isn't a picture stamp park, and when they are one we have the stamp. We were lucky and we bought all the stamps from the first set on, we really enjoy our little books, it is like going down memory lane of each trip and I like projects. When we enter a state, I look on the map and high light all the National parks and write stamp on the map if it is a stamp one and we will drive out of our way for one, but if there too far, we have it marked for another trip. Kent drives and I keep busy doing this stuff plus reading to him. We have a "Frontier Woman" book about their hardships traveling west. Kent likes their stories and how far they traveled each day and their hardships as we travel in our updated covered wagon. (please note the old picture is a picture of a picture of the castle. I don't know if it still stands off the road or what, but i will read on it and add more information.) I think I have seen too many ruins this week to remember.