Drink of the summer - Orange Fanta

TV Show of the summer - Deadliest Catch

Lunch of the summer - Ouiznos

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Some afterthoughts from our trip:

1. National Parks visited include Yellowstone, Zion, Rocky Mountain, Grand Teton, Great Smoky Mountain, Big Bend, Sequoia, Hot Springs, Yosemite, Badlands, Grand Canyon. Ranking the parks, in my opinion, starts with Yellowstone. It is my favorite. Yosemite is number two. Third place is hard. Grand Canyon, Zion, Grand Tetons. Can't call it.

2. National Park that I should have gone to but haven't - Guadalupe Mountains. It is in Texas and would be a great destination for this fall. McKittrick Canyon in the fall would be great.

3. No excuse really parks - Joshua Tree and Death Valley. I went right past both on this last trip but didn't turn in.

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Colorado City, Arizona. Made famous somewhat by the book "Under The Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer about fundamentalist Mormons. Eerie drive through the city with most everybody scoping us out when we drove by their house. Stopped by a convenience store/cafe called Merry Wives.