Tales of a Technogypsie

Monday on the Road From The Burn 2010: Travelling Across the Desert homeward bound to Colorado Monday, 6 September 2010 * Nevada to Colorado, United States of America * Early to rise after a good rest and sleep after a crazy night of driving, Sir Thomas Leaf was back on the road taking I-80 east [...]

Great Salt Lake Desert: Utah Parallel to the Great Salt Lake of Salt Lake Ciy fame is the Great Salt Lake Desert. This is a large dry lake in Northern Utah that lies between the Great Salt Lake and the Nevada border. It is infamous for its white sand salt deposits from the evaporating Lake [...]

Utah, Nevada, into Black Rock City Wednesday, 1 September 2010 * Utah-Nevada, United States of America * Sir Thomas Leaf and Lady Ellie awoke after night stay at the Wyoming and Utah border rest area. They were quickly back on the road to Black Rock City. Driving through the hot terrain of Utah, past the [...]

Utah, United States of America* www.utah.gov * Monuments: Devil’s Slide Parks: Arches National Park Canyonland National Park Resources: Utah TG Links Utah is known as the “Beehive State” as well as the “Mormon State”. The name “Utah” comes from the name of the Ute Tribe meaning “People of the Mountains”. Its largest city is “Salt [...]

Devil’s Slide, Utah Devil’s Slide, UtahAlong the I-84 corridor is an interesting geological feature called the “Devil’s Slide”. It rests in northern Utah’s Weber Canyon near Croydon, Utah of Morgan County. The feature is two parallel parts of limestone strata that lie vertical 40 feet out of the mountainslide forming what appears to be a [...]

[ Back to Chapter 18: The Oregon Trail ]   [ Chapter 19: Death to the Vardo ]   [ Chapter 20: Faerie Houses ] Green River, Wyoming From the journal of Sir Thomas “Rymour Oisin” Leaf: Tuesday, The 29th of Quintilis (Julius Caesar’s “July”) in the good year 2009 of the Common Era “Early [...]

Arches National Park Arches National Park * http://www.nps.gov/arch/ * PO Box 907 Moab, UT 84532 * (435) 719-2299A panoramic array of mesas, arches, canyons, and buttes naturally occuring near Moab, Utah known as Arches National Park. The National Park preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, like the world-famous Delicate Arch, as well as many other [...]

Canyonlands National Park Canyonlands National Park * http://www.nps.gov/cany/ * Canyonlands National Park * 2282 SW Resource Blvd. * Moab, Utah 84532 * (435) 719-2313 In the heart of Utah near the resort town o Moab lies one of North America’s most scenic desert canyon playgrounds known as “Canyonlands”. A pristine national park that presents a [...]