Toward the Rising Sun - Part 1: Montana through New York

By L:  Dana had planned a full itinerary for our trip across the county - so many things to see and do but not enough time to do it all - including the time for traveling the great distances.  We started out hoping to fit in as much as possible - but realized we would want time to "stop and smell the roses" along the way.  It was a good combination of both.  We had no "destination" point in North Dakota, other than Fargo (for spending the night) - so I snapped a quick picture from the gas station in New Salem - of "Salem Sue" the World's Largest Holstein Cow standing on the hillside.

 

Next stop - St. Paul Minnesota.  We went to the LDS temple there and then did a little side trip to  River Falls before heading toward the Canadian Border.

The Fall colors were amazing!  This was just the beginning of many stops to try to capture the beauty with the camera.

We were driving past Lake Michigan as the Full Moon came up.  We were lucky to get this picture - the next few days were rainy and cloudy. We traveled north of the great lakes into Canada.

And it was raining as we came back across the border into the U.S. at Niagara Falls.

 

We spent a beautiful couple of days in Palmyra, New York, attending church, 

the temple and the sites in the area.

Hill Cumorah

Whitmer Family Home

Whitmer Farm

This was the first of many cemeteries we stopped to visit.  It was in upper New York State along highway 37.  Some of the headstones are so old - and have very interesting inscriptions on them.