Show Kummer Kumin r r. r sandy Family's F mil y Tri Trip Lengthens into T Tour ur But Park City's Best I PARK CITY CITY- I What started out to be fishing trip In the high and Ashley Ashley Ash Ash- ley forest turned out to be quite a seeing eight seeing tour enjoyed by bye e eleven even members of bt f the Kummer family We started tart d our trip by going up through Canyon over Ver Mt 1 Elizabeth to Lyman Lake where we fished the evening and early morning then on down to Mountain View Wyo then up to Spirit Lake tor for another evening and nd morning of fishing which by bythe bythe bythe the way wasn't at its Ita best Then Thenon ThenOR on OR to Manila ManUa to visit the Delmar Paulk fatally family Mrs Paulk Elsie being a sister of Ken Kummer We enjoyed a couple of days of I visiting here bere also Leaving Leav Leav- ing lag there we went over to the Flaming Gorge over the swinging Ib bridge Into Vernal then on to Jensen and the Dinosaur Monument ment meat spending the night at the Split Spilt M Mountain o 0 u n t a I n campgrounds which looked like a small city elty as there were hundreds of tourists there Upon seeing fleeing a film at the c n program on National Parks In the Colorado and Utah area decided to visit them Mining l Towns Town We WJ then went on to Colorado to Meeker Grand Junction and andon andon on down to Ouray buray a II small mining town high in the mountains where mining has long been forgotten forgotten for for- gotten and now Is known as the Switzerland of America a a. tourist playground We spent the night here next day going ov over r the million dollar highway Into SIlverton Silverton SIl- SIl verton also a long gone mining town This proved roved to be Quite exciting exciting ex ex- citing dUng as they have quite a show there and every day Is a holiday there They have the only narrow gauge railroad Into Durango and makes two trips a day loaded with tourists wanting to see the sights As the train arrives In town at thigh noon there Is a very realistic gun battle taking place in the streets and from the balcony of the Bent Elbow saloon with a a. aBat aBat Bat Dat Masterson to oversee all the excitement II I Gun Battle I The Teenagers to the oldsters take part in this panorama of the theold theold theold old Western mining town After the gun battle everyone goes to i Bent Elbow saloon which also is a cafe and some eat and drink while many others othere gather aroun around t tIthe the Ithe time old piano plano for lor some singing sing ing tag and and plain time old entertain entertain- ment m t. t The waiters walters and waitresses I are dressed as they were in the early Os making It a very colorful colorful color color- ful eight flight to see It is Js quite interesting to see how these people have used their Imagination and talents to make this forgotten mining towns town a showplace show allow place of excitement and interest to all who pass by We hated to to leave here as there was as a lot to see but we went on on to Durango then to the Mesa Verda to see th the cliff dwellings dwellings dwellings lings once lived in by the Indians In In- These were in the overhanging over- over banging hanging cliffs cUlts high above the I canyon floor We went through several of the larger cliff dwellings dwellings lings and the museum We spent the night and most of the next day going through these ruins r I Home In a Rock Monte Monte-I I I We then crossed the Monte Monte- luma tuma Valley homeward bound by byway byway way of ot Southern Utah Into Moab D Pass Rainbow ment went We Ve stopped at the Hole tole in inthe the Rock a home built in the rock which is a mile around The wife lite of the builder er makes make her living by just showing the tourists through this fantastic home in inI inthe I the rock since his passing In 1957 I I The temperature In this home I never gets below 65 degrees or above 78 18 degrees requiring very little heat in winter We saw I I many things of and country coun- coun coon 1 try much different nt from what weare wo we are used to here in tho the mountains moun moun- i I We all say wed we'd like Uke to 10 take tako I more trips like this and see aee the i irest rest of the tho beautiful spots right here hero in our state these are many and very Interesting and educational educational educational to see see The prettiest eight sight of all aU though was good old Park ark City Mrs Ken Kummer I |