Kiva’s Firsts

I’ve been on the road for six weeks and it turns out…

I LOVE TRAVEL!

My parents are relieved. I’ve smelled, seen and heard so many strange things. If there is anything I’ve learned, it’s that anything is possible: white sand, huge elk, prickly plants. Here are some of my first time experiences.

Standing at the base of a massive waterfall in Valdez

 

Crossing of the Continental Divide — TEN TIMES!

 

Stopping for elk to cross the road near Whitehorse

 

Camping in a tent overnight in Jasper

 

Drinking water in a lake named after me: Lake Louise

 

 

Seeing a huge bison in Yellowstone

 

 

Smelling sulfur at Yellowstone

 

 

Hearing a train chugging by

 

Hiking in Colorado

 

 

Sleeping in a truck

 

Climbing on red rock

 

Hiking in salmon colored sand in a canyon to see pictographs

 

 

 

 

Seeing a dinosaur track

 

Meeting a horse

 

 

Goatheads and cactus — there are a lot of prickly things in the Southwest

 

Digging white sand

 

Hiking at 10,000 feet

 

Dining at a restaurant in Natchez

 

 

 

 

 

Viewing the sunset and the American Queen Steamboat on the Mississippi River

 

 

Diving into a Mississippi bayou along the Natchez Trace

 

Discovering that the country is populated by little dogs

 

Fields of cows

 

Fields of cotton in Texas

 

Oklahoma City

 

 

Charlotte