Honeymoon Pictures —
Eastward to New Jersey

Our second and third weeks of married life, we drove from Sunnyvale to New Jersey, where Scott was temporarily assigned for Lockheed Martin. We stopped along the way at: Lake Tahoe and Reno in Nevada, Bonneville Salt Flats and Salt Lake City in Utah, Yellowstone National Park and Buffalo Bill Cody's Museum in Wyoming, Mt. Rushmore and the Rushmore Underground Cave in South Dakota, the Corn Palace in South Dakota, the Mall of America in Minnesota, Chicago for "real" Chicago pizza in Illinois, Niagara Falls in Canada, and Rochester in New York.

We also visited New York City for a Broadway play, and accidentally drove to Philadelphia while trying to find a church in southern New Jersey. Photos of our trips to Washington, D.C., Connecticut, Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, etc. are on the "Honeymoon Pictures - Westward to California" page.

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	From Yellowstone National Park, here's Old Faithful at its peak height. Even though it was a warm Saturday afternoon, Scott wanted us to take a three-mile hike just to see geysers, rodents, bison and stuff like this - so we walked, while waiting for Old Faithful to erupt. While the geyser does "faithfully" spout, it has its own schedule, so hundreds of spectators sit in the sun up to two hours between "shows" like this.
	The "Lower Falls" in Yellowstone's version of the Grand Canyon. It's twice as high as Niagara Falls, although not nearly as wide.
	You can't really appreciate the "Lower Falls" until you see how far down into the canyon we had to walk to get a picture. We also had to walk up the canyon to get to our car. This photo was taken near the bottom of the canyon.
	Yellowstone has an area called "Minerva Terrace" formed by travertine (calcium carbonate). It resembles an alien planet surface.
	We were greatly impressed by the Mt. Rushmore Visitor Center, which has an enormous parking lot, a humongous bookstore with tons of souvenirs (Mt. Rushmore doormat, anyone?), audio-video displays, an amphitheatre, artist's studio, etc. Oh yeah - there's also this big rock carving of four dead presidents.
	There's not much to see along I-90, except for . . . the Corn Palace of Mitchell, South Dakota! It's the world's only corn palace, mind you. The exterior walls feature corn-by-numbers art (take a cob of Indian corn, cut it lengthwise, and nail each half to the wall); pictures are replaced each year because the birds keep eating the corn.
	Believe it or not, Scott (who hates shopping) wanted to go to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to see the Mall of America, the largest mall in the U.S. It has an amusement park inside with a full-sized Ferris wheel (we rode the roller coaster), and a real wedding chapel inside the mall (we didn't need it).
	From Chicago, we were so close to Niagara Falls that we had to go see it. For you traditionalists, here's a picture of Niagara Falls, showing the "Maid of the Mist:" boat valiantly heading upstream to the falls (click on the thumbnail picture to see the larger picture showing the Falls). All boat passengers get raincoats, but there's still no way to avoid getting wet.
	From Niagara Falls, we drove to Rochester, New York, to visit Jette's brother Lambert and his wife Lynne. (They were unable to attend the wedding due to their work schedule.) Between Scott and Jette, we have a Lynn (Jette's sister), Lynne (Jette's sister-in-law), and Lynette (Scott's sister).
	Scott wanted to see a show on Broadway, so we saw "Beauty and the Beast." Scott was impressed by the number of skyscraper buildings that can be packed into one city. We also observed few private autos and lots of yellow taxis; seems most "natives" avoid driving in the city. A few months later, we had to drive through New York City and discovered why: it's dangerous! The drivers don't ask if they can cut into your lane, they just do it and leave you to deal with your own safety. And it's crowded. And it's expensive — we paid $11 in tolls to cross just one bridge (Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which is the longest suspension bridge in the U.S., longer than the Golden Gate Bridge by 60 feet).
	Madison Square Garden doesn't have any marquees showing what is happening inside, so we have no idea why so many police officers were there. We just stayed away from them. "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto!"