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Idaho, magnificent Autumn Colors at their Peak sept/oct 2024

Why Idaho would you say? Well the daughter of our friends Gary and Linda was marrying in Sun Valley, a posh beautiful overpriced location invaded by famous Californians and once a home to Ernest Hemingway, who spent his final years there. Not a reason to necessarily go there, but we were invited, so off we went. Well just like Oregon we had not really visited Idaho on our 2013 roadtrip through the US from National Park to National Park as there are no national parks in Idaho. So why not use the wedding visit as an excuse to see more of Idaho?  Well, we definitely did Idaho (for 27 days - 4 days wedding, 12 days by ourselves and 11 days with Gary and Linda).  And per below picture, the colors were everywhere and you will see them often throughout this blog. Idaho is famous for skiing, hot springs, a never stopping erupting geyser that competed with Old Faithful in such ways, that in 1937 the Secretary of the Interior sent a telegram to the city of Soda Springs to turn the geyser off, “b
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Our Trip to India, Reflections and of course the Pictures

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(If your love is forever, you need to stand in front of the Taj Mahal) Sandee and I avoid taking group travel, (we only took one in Egypt and one to Antartica) and that had been till now the reason not to visit India, as we thought it too overwhelming to try traipsing around India by ourselves. (There is no better way to describe traffic chaos than in showing you the scooter/motor parking lot. Our first drive from the airport to the hotel confronted us with multiple rows of cars- 5 rows on a divided 3 lane road in each direction, populated with cars, bikes, a food cart drawn by a donkey  and a truck driving against the traffic on the  shoulder lane. We found out later that because of the hedged division between the in both direction steered traffic, sometimes an exit that allows you to reach your destination is too far away, so the truck driver decides to traverse the last part by driving against the traffic as a shortcut) (The  old town of New Delhi like most developing countries Ofte
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Our Trip to India, Reflections and of course the Pictures

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(If your love is forever, you need to stand in front of the Taj Mahal) Sandee and I avoid taking group travel, (we only took one in Egypt and one to Antartica) and that had been till now the reason not to visit India, as we thought it too overwhelming to try traipsing around India by ourselves. (There is no better way to describe traffic chaos than in showing you the scooter/motor parking lot. Our first drive from the airport to the hotel confronted us with multiple rows of cars- 5 rows on a divided 3 lane road in each direction, populated with cars, bikes, a food cart drawn by a donkey  and a truck driving against the traffic on the  shoulder lane. We found out later that because of the hedged division between the in both direction steered traffic, sometimes an exit that allows you to reach your destination is too far away, so the truck driver decides to traverse the last part by driving against the traffic as a shortcut) (The  old town of New Delhi like most developing countries Ofte
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