Away From Home

I’ve traveled quite a bit, going to Colorado most summers to go on a camping trip with my family on my paternal Grandpa’s side, who all, obviously, live in Colorado. Technically, the farthest I’ve been from my home (in Oregon) is Hawaii, though that doesn’t really count seeing as I wasn’t even a year old at the time, and I can’t remember it at all.

While Colorado is the farthest I’ve ever been that I can remember, I’ve also been to Montana, where we stayed for nearly a year. It was pretty cool there, as well as cold in the winter, far colder and snowier than it gets here in Oregon. Of course, it does get snowy like that in Colorado in the winter, but I haven’t been to Colorado in the wintertime much. Montana was also hot in the summer, which surprised me quite a bit since it had been so cold in the winter.

I’ve also spent a summer going on a huge road trip, visiting places and landmarks all the way from California’s Legoland and Disneyland to the Grand Canyon. Other places include Four Corners (the only place in the U.S. where four states meet at a corner), Mesa Verde (an old native American site), and Death Valley (a desert in northern California).