30 August 1984
After my dad returned to Turkey, mom and Aylin stayed on for a few more days before they went to New Hampshire to spend time with my grandmother. Before they left, we had one last outing … this time to Hogle Zoo.
Saying hello to the African Elephants.
First encounter with a polar bear.
Feeding the giraffe.
The ladies are on the fence!
Mom just loves (not!) having her photograph taken.
Is this a coke advertisement or what?
Another day found us atop Snowbird, enjoying the views of the Salt Lake Valley.
We couldn’t not take my parents and Aylin to La Caille for dinner. (Click here for the details of this elegant restaurant.)
One evening found us at a performance of Hats Off to Hollywood at the Triad Center in downtown Salt Lake City.
We took advantage of the family being all together in one place to take some family portraits.
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… And this is the Yellowstone portion of our two-national-parks-in-one weekend family trip ...
Somewhere in Yellowstone National Park.
(Above and Below)
Lewis Falls
(above and below)
Grand Canyon of Yellowstone
Thinking Man at Inspiration Point
Emerald Pool
(Above and Below)
Elk in the meadow.
South America?
So is this geyser going to erupt or not?
Sunset Lake at Black Sand Basin
It sure stinks like rotten eggs.
There’s a geyser somewhere behind us.
Here are a series of photos taken at Old Faithful; too bad we didn’t have blue skies … the effect would have been much more dramatic.Giant Geyser is located in the upper geyser basin. it erupts to
heights of 200 feet (61 M) for durations ranging from 45 to 60 minutes.
[scanned from postcard]
While waiting for Old Faithful to blow its top, Mui makes a new friend.
All too soon it was time to head home.
Picnic lunch on the way back home.
We’re home!
Good thing we have a sofa that can accommodate all of us!
We covered a lot of distance on this short weekend trip. Was it tiring? Sure. But we had fun nonetheless.
While my family was visiting, we took a whirlwind weekend trip that included not one, but two national parks: Grand Teton and Yellowstone. We based ourselves in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and spent one day in each of the parks before returning home.
This is the Grand Teton portion of the trip …
Nearly 500 miles (800 km) each way.
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The Teton Range
(above and below)
Somewhere between Grand Teton NP and Jackson Hole.
Mui decided to play around with the camera a bit while we rested near the river.
The entire valley between the Teton and Gros Ventre mountains was named
Jackson’s Hole in 1829 by William Sublette after his partner, David E. Jackson,
who loved to trap here. The early fur hunters called any mountain-encircled
valley a “hole.” It was changed to Jackson Hole in the 1920’s for the sake of brevity.
Jackson Hole's Town Square is famous for the elk horn arches at each corner.
Don't worry, no elks were harmed in the making of the arches.
elk shed their antlers annually and the townsfolk then collect them.
One of the memorable moments of the trip was when my dad asked the clerk at the hotel in Jackson Hole to show him the room before he plunked down the cash. Common practice in Turkey to do so; not so much in the US. Though taken aback, the clerk complied with my dad’s request.
