Places Traveled Jovi and Tom

  Golden Spike National Historic Park is located on the site of the town of Promontory, Utah. Explore the tent city and later the town before it became a historic site. The first transcontinental railroad is rich with people, places, and stories. While Golden Spike may be a small park it carries a much larger story that continues to this day. Numerous people and cultures came together to build the first transcontinental railroad. Golden Spike the connection of the West to the East Coast

  Created by Robert Redford, Sundance is a haven for discovery and inspiration that offers diverse mountain recreation experiences year round. The rustic simplicity of Sundance Mountain Resort is graced by 5000 acres of protected wilderness at the base of 12,000 ft Mt. Timpanogos, only an hours drive from Salt Lake City and 45 minutes from Park City. Mountain recreation includes skiing, snowboarding, night skiing, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing in winter and hiking, biking and horseback riding in summer and year-round world class fly-fishing on the Provo River. In the Spring of 2015, Sundance opened Utah’s longest Zipline with a vertical drop of 2100 feet. Whether you are a beginner skier or expert who wants to improve their performance, the Sundance PSIA/AASI certified instructors offer the Home Base Skiing techniques that make learning both fun and effective to make the most of your abilities.  Sundance’s mountain cottages are discreetly tucked into the mountainside and echo th

  On a clear day, you can view Mt. Washington, Mt. Jefferson, the South, North, and Middle Sister, and even see Mt. Hood, 78.5 miles to the north. If the snow has melted, don’t forget to look for the glaciers! Collier glacier on the North Sister is the largest glacier in Oregon. Located in the Cascade Range at 5,187 feet, this mountain observatory offers panoramic views across 65 square miles of black lava rock that looks so much like a moonscape that in 1964, NASA conducted drills with astronauts as they prepared to travel to the moon. Dee Wright Observatory settled atop vast, black lava flows. Completed in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the observatory was named in memory of Dee Wright, the crew’s foreman who passed away the year before.

  Loon Lake is a popular recreation area 20 miles east of Reedsport, Oregon. It boasts one of the coast’s finest campgrounds with a warm, sandy beach. Loon Lake provides excellent boating, waterskiing, canoeing, kayaking, fishing and swimming opportunities. Visitors love to relax on the sandy beaches alongside the lake. Loon Lake covers 260 acres, is 2 miles long and 190 deep. The campground is situated in the Coast Mountain Range in southwestern Oregon. Douglas fir, western hemlock and red cedar trees forest this beautiful site. The lake is perfect for swimming, fishing and water skiing. Campsites, some of which are accessible, are available for tent campers and RVs alike. The campground provides flush toilets, paved roads, parking spurs and an amphitheater with educational programs. Sites contain picnic tables, fire rings and grills. The campground opens the Thursday before Memorial Day weekend and closes at the end of September. Nearby Attractions: The Oregon Coast offers a myriad o