July-Aug. 2000 Trip to California
including Lassen Volcanic National Park, Armstrong Redwood Preserve, Point Reyes Seashore and Muir Woods, San Francisco, San Jose, Monterey, Yosemite, Mono Lake & Lake Tahoe

April 2000 Trip to Florida

Kennedy Space Center

• Family near Launch pad at Kennedy Space Center (3 miles away, barely visible above Rob's head)
• Vehicle Assembly Building where they assemble shuttles to rockets, etc., before rolling them to the launch pad
• Saturn V rocket seen from rocket end in Saturn building, which has details of the Apollo missions
• Another view of the Apollo rocket assembly
• International Space Station components being assembled
• Space Shuttle Explorer at KSC visitor center
• Shuttle boosters; the white ones are recovered and reused, the orange one burns up on re-entering earth's atmosphere. Yes, that's Glen (5'11") barely visible down below for perspective.
• Egret (or is that a white heron?), which are seen everywhere (along with alligators, pelicans, etc.)

Sea World in Orlando

• Fish swimming overhead(!) in one of the walk-through tanks (tubes with 4" thick walls built through large aquariums)
• And we walked under the sharks too!
• "Journey to Atlantis", our favorite ride at Sea World, contains not only a flume drop (over Glen's shoulder) but a little roller coaster fun too. Yes, we did get a bit wet but it was a nice day even though it clouded up.

1998 Trip to Colorado/Wyoming

• Family on-stage at Red Rocks amphitheater near Denver, CO
• Dream Lake near Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
• Elk near roadway in RMNP
• Rocks along Tundra trail near roadway high point

1998 Orienteering Relay near Laramie, Wyoming
(These are fellow EMPO members)

• Photo of Marty, showing hills surrounding relay area
• Photo of Phil approaching a "control," background shows the general terrain of rolling grassy/range landscape with intermittent wet aspen groves

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