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Powder Mountain, Utah
Earlier this year in March, my family and I went on a ski vacation to Powder Mountain in Utah. Powder Mountain is a ski resort located about an hour drive north of Salt Lake City, UT. We all flew in to Salt Lake City then rented cars to drive to Eden. Powder Mountain does not have its own little town or resort surrounding it like most ski mountains have. With very few exceptions, most people stay further down the mountain in the little town of Eden and drive up to the ski area daily. This ski mountain is also different in another way, instead of immediately getting on the chair…
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Scottsdale, Arizona
Our first stop in Arizona was Scottsdale, a suburb of Phoenix. We stayed there for a total of three nights. Dessert Botanical Gardens One of the things we did in Scottsdale was go to the Desert Botanical Gardens. They have over 25,000 different kinds of plants from the Sonoran dessert (part of Arizona and Mexico) and from around the world. One of the most common plants there is the Saguaro Cactus (S-u-waro). They can grow up to sixty feet in height and can get up to three hundred years old! We also tried some Prickly Pear Cactus candy, it was delicious! Old Town Scottsdale Later that day we walked…
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6 months traveling the western half of the U.S.A.
My dad was lucky enough to get a six month sabbatical from his work. So my parents decided that we would travel the western half of the U.S.A. instead of traveling abroad, since we have done that more than traveling in our own country. We have a 15 passenger van, (we took out the last row in order to fit all our stuff in the back). My dad and grandpa drove the van down from our house in Alaska to Arizona. 10 days later my mom, my siblings and I flew down to meet my dad (grandpa flew home before we got there).