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Oh thanks for your concern, fortunately we were in Colorado when the hurricane hit - far away! I hope you are fine and safe.

You’re right, we don’t mean it to me making fun but rather commenting on the dialect in different parts of the country just like we say huge and y’all because it reflects the various cultures that we travel through. So I’m sorry, I certainly didn’t mean to offend you or anyone.

Awesome, thanks for the explanation as it was a mystery to me! :-)

Yes, and gorgeous!

Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying them.

Yes, this is an amazing part of the country and always fun to visit and explore. Thanks for the comment!

We’re on the road right now, so I can’t check that but will do so when I get home. Thanks for noticing!

You’re quite welcome! It’s a pretty cool town.

Yes, we did go to Steubenville, in fact it’s on the next video and there was plenty of Dean Martin memorabilia around, so I hope you watch it and thanks for the comment!

That’s kind of rude :-)

Giovanni pizza is an ironton staple. Best pizza ever!

Unfortunately, we didn’t eat there - or in town I mean, but yeah, those furnaces seem to make more sense with buildings around them! Thanks

Yes, it’s an incredible place and we only scratch the surface! Have fun thanks for the comment.

Yes, that road is pretty daunting! We've done it a few times and it doesn't get any less nerve wracking.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. I did look up the Dickeyville Grotto and it looks pretty amazing. Coincidentally, we're going to be in Wisconsin next month but unfortunately not in that area. I have marked it tho and maybe we can get there in the future. Thanks again!

Thanks! I hadn't heard that term before, but it sure fits!

I wondered about that, thanks!

Great to hear! That's exactly why we started the channel.

Wow, it's so wonderful to hear when people enjoy what we do! Trigger is a great dog and he said to say "hi!".

I think I cut Carol off when she was about to comment on that. Later on though, I didn't see any red bridges when we crossed into Indiana! ;))

Thanks, nice history!

​@@travelswithtrigger I think the story of the arrival of the Fremonts in central Utah, and their travels south, is one of the great untold sagas in human history! The ancestors of the Fremont people started out on the Russian Steppes, circa the mid-22 Century BC, as the Proto-Indo-European people. Those peoples spread out, across Europe, Russia, northern Africa, and Vedic India, founding the languages of Europe, India, Russia, (probably) Mongolia, and Siberia. Eventually, their descendants "discovered" the "new" lands of the Americas (the sobriquet "new", used by the Spaniards and the English, tells a tale in itself). Descendants of the PIE people would drift down across northwestern Canada, following the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, some venturing easterly, eventually becoming the Algonquins, Sioux, and other (northern) American Indian tribes. They were probably the people of Cahokia. In any case, the Fremont People became the Anasazi, by the time they reached to southern shores of the inland sea I mentioned, first venturing out onto the clifftops, then down onto the cliffsides, and finally, out onto the prairies, between 500-700 years later, where they began building a trading empire that reached all the way to San Diego, almost 700 miles away, across some of the most difficult terrain in the nation. The Anasazi did not "walk away", in my opinion. They continued their journey, playing one last important role in the story of the ancient Americas, before their descendants returned to the American Southwest, to found the Navajo, Hopi, Ute, and other tribes, in the 15th Century AD, more than three millennia after their ancestors had set out "east" (not necessarily the direction, at the time, due to the events that set these people in motion). Our ancient past, before 700BC, is a tangled mess of bad guesses, religious orthodoxy, and ham-fisted attempts to make sense of a jumbled assortment of stories, myths, legends, and beliefs.

It is!

Thanks "Rusty" and for the further clarification on the pronunciation of Cairo (Karo)! The first time I came here I was in awe and sad at the same time. It has such wonderful buildings mixed in with the ruins and vacant plots. Did you ever visit there before it declined? I am guessing it was amazing!

@@travelswithtrigger Hi there, I was there as a kid in the early 70s for the first time. The decline was well underway after the race riots of the late 1960s. Last time I was there was 2019. Pretty much a ghost town. Very sad. Hi Trigger 🐶🐕🦮

Wow, that's earlier than I thought although I knew of the problems in the '60's. Thanks for the info--and Trigger says Hi back!

What could be more important!

It reminds me of old broken down houses ;)) Thanks!

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Thanks 👍

We only spent one night there but certainly could have spent more--maybe we were there at the same time, Fall '22! ;))

Hi Barbara, the ruins are only about a 1/4 mile from the Animus River's current course (may have been different back then?). Also, I want to say that I think I remember a small creek even closer to the ruins but I might be wrong. Anyway, there would have been plenty of water in the immediate area.

Tourist traps, you gotta love it! I don't know how long the writing has been there, but it goes well back into the 80's-or before, long before Moab was transformed from a quaint town to what it is today. Not an excuse, just an observation!

Thanks for the comment! I've been coming to tis area since the early '80's and it just never gets old. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to live in the area, so I'm jealous! :))

Yes, an amazing place! And I know what you mean, that whole area is one of my favorite places to photograph and I’ve never lived closer than 1000 miles!

We were near Moab here but you're right, and we hope to be up there next year!

Glad you enjoyed it, some really great places!

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks so much! Utah is an incredible place!

Thanks, you don't really want to know what she was doing back there.... ;))

Thanks, I think I know the cabin you're talking about, I found one up one of the side canyons several years ago but can't remember where it was!! There may be more than one, there are so many side roads in the area. Also, if you don't know about it, I think it is Thompson Canyon where you get up to some old structures (small cabins maybe?) and a large oven around the corner from them. That area says no camping and has a sign about the town's water supply. Thanks for the comment!

Most likely, there all over even the petroglyph panels as well. A lot of the time you'll find the round area surrounded by surface splatter as well. I think that is from larger caliber bullets or maybe the soft/harness of the rock they hit??

Thank you! And, yes, it is a jungle out there....

As you probably know, all National Parks and most State Parks do ban drone use. But amazingly, traveling extensively every year since drones were available to consumers, I have only experienced a drone being flown by someone else one time. The funny thing is the store manager in Cisco allows people to fly drones as the town is mostly just an art installation--no one lives in the center of the loop. I was there on a weekend and I know a guy who was there a week later, on a weekday, and no one bothered him! Go figure!

Thanks and what.... ;))

Yea, as I watched the video again, I think there was more than one in that bush!

Glad you enjoyed it

It really is! It blew me away the first time I saw it and it never gets old as you always discover new things each time!

Thanks, I'll take a look at it. We have searched out several in that area and it would be good to learn a bit more!