Category: Travel
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Looking for Bacon Guy at Bear Lake
Last week we spent a couple of nights in the Old Ephraim cabin at Rendezvous Beach State Park in Laketown, Utah. The stall in the shared camp bathroom had a broken lock so you had to cough as each person entered to announce your presence. An 8-year-old kid ignored my cough and was singing to…
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Family reunion 2015 in Yellowstone
One of our favorite places for a reunion is the Old Faithful cabins in Yellowstone National Park. Here’s a quick video and some photos of our July 2015 reunion:
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A mini-guide to Paris
Three of the four Hill brothers served missions in France (two in the Paris Mission [1992-94 and 1999-2001] and one in the Geneva Mission [2004-06] which includes parts of France). We try to get back when we can, even if it’s just during a layover from somewhere else. Since we occasionally get requests for info on…
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Yellowstone through the years
Did you know there was a guy who jumped into a 200° F hot pot at Yellowstone to rescue his dog? When they pulled him out his last words were, “That was stupid. How bad am I? That was a stupid thing I did.” When they pulled off one of his shoes, the skin of his foot…
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Gargoyles and Notre Dame de Paris
The first time I saw the Notre Dame Cathedral (or really anything outside the western United States) was as a Mormon missionary in 1992. There was a tourist shop nearby that gave screamin’ deals to missionaries and I bought pretty much my favorite souvenir ever, a replica of the Rongeur gargoyle. I imagined him…