The Wiggen's Travels
Our travels around the world.

A final day of driving brought us from the National Park to Jim and Janet’s house in Berkeley. We slowly made our way into California, once again arriving in the state we live.  We drive by Mount Shasta (home of many a Houseboat trip), past Weed California (which always brings up thoughts of Terry McDaniel), […]

Today was exciting because we got to see yet another National Park.  Crater Lake is in Oregon and is a lake that has formed inside a volcano which has no top.  No water leaves the lake, and there are no rivers out of the lake.  The water is a crazy blue color (hard to see […]

Today is my birthday 🙂  37 Awaking in the park it was a good but sad day.  We had to say goodbye to my parents who were flying home.  We had a nice birthday breakfast (even though I really don’t like breakfast) and dropped them off at the Glacier airport. On our way out of […]

Today we took the Red Bus Tour of Glacier.  This is one of the most beautiful parks I have been to.  Not a lot of animals, however the scenery is awesome.  The red buses have been around since the 30’s in the national park.  The roof of the bus comes off and gives you a […]

We awoke from our overlook of Flathead Lake and slowly moved on to Glacier. We started by throwing the dog in the lake for a while, then went wine tasting at Mountain Winery (also on the lake). The afternoon consisted of class II-III whitewater rafting.  It was my mothers first time in a raft and […]

We awoke in Yellowstone for our last day in the park.  Deciding to see more of the park we headed out.  Of course we got stuck in a 1 hour bison traffic jam where we did NOT move at all for 20 min and then only moved slightly.  It was great to just sit and […]

Today we toured Yellowstone.   We started with a loop around Grand Loop and saw many geysers and thermal pools.  Of course we made it over to Old Faithful for a noon eruption.  One of those things that I am glad I saw in my lifetime. Later in the afternoon we took a tour of the […]

After a mosquito evening and morning (they were terrible) we headed out to the Grand Tetons.  We had a great day in the National Park to the South. We drove quickly to the town of Jackson (its not Jackson Hole like I thought, that is the whole region, Jackson is the ski town), and had […]

With dad arriving a day later than expected, we found ourselves with a morning in Cody. The morning we prepared for our trip (groceries etc) and stu and I went to the local lake for a swim. During the wait Susan and I got to go on the trolley tour of Cody. You give them […]

After our long day of adventures yesterday, today seems pretty tame.  We drove a lot to get across the mountains into Cody. Devils Tower (notice no ‘) is the first US National Monument.  Its pretty impressive and would be really cool if we were climbers. From there we drove on 90 to route 16 (which […]