Welcome to Utah

I have arrived!

I have come here to see if I think I could live here for the three years it would take for me to get through the Master's of Architecture program at the University of Utah.

I have also come here to establish residency before I enter the Master's program because that's just good financial sense. Assuming I get into the Master's program that is. If I do not get into the architecture program, then I am here to rock climb, hike and ski, and I am perfectly okay with that.

Magic

Sat on the banks of a still frozen Jackson Lake and watched the most spectacular sunset over the Teton Mountains.



I can feel the Viking blood coursing through my veins tonight!



Best campsite yet.

Yellowstone National Park

Heck Yeah!

Bison turds, moose droppings and a snow bank mere yards from my tent. Camping couldn't get much more perfect than this!

Baker's Hole: Gallitain National Forest

Camping on a bend in the Yellowstone River:

Tomorrow I head into Yellowstone National Park.

Looking for a Campsite in Wyoming

Big Sky, Montana

Montana Wilderness

Ousel Falls, MT

Billings, MT

Camping on the Yellowstone River in Billings:

Painted Canyons: Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Sunset At the Scariest Little Campground: Fargo, ND

(Photo taken through the screen vent in my tent as I was too cowardly to go outside the tent after dark).



I did not sleep very well this night. It was the only dry campground in town and was located in between a railway, a grain mill and a bunch of strip bars. It stunk like the industrial end of town, there was an itinerant giving me the evil eye four camp sites down and I'm pretty sure a mobile meth lab pulled up at 2 in the morning and headed out about 4:30. Every little gust of wind that rustled the rain flap on my tent startled me from my trouble slumber and I fully expected each and every time to wake up to the image of a man with a hook for a hand unzipping the door of my tent. Thank you over-active imagination and children's ghost stories of old. The two of you made great bed fellows last night.

Devil's Lake in Panorama

Hiking at Devil's Lake

Devil's Lake State Park

Natural Bridge State Park

Pewitt's Nest