Month: September 2016
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My kind of town
I have often said that it’s too bad Moab is in the middle of the desert. If I thought I could handle the summers, I would have pushed Michael to move here years ago. But the summers here are awful – weeks of 100 degrees. Not my idea of a good time. So spring and fall…
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Getting to Moab
After riding Grand Targhee we made tracks for Park City, UT. We spent a night at a lovely site outside of Swan Valley, ID, and then pressed on. We did stop briefly in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, for a shower and soak at their public hot springs. $6 per person. I almost fell over at…
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The Lava Fields of Idaho
What, you didn’t know Idaho had lava fields? Well, join the club. Until a few days ago, neither did I. Driving along Highway 26, just a few miles from Craters Of The Moon National Monument, I saw what looked like recently turned earth. I mean, it was black. But like big chunks of black earth.…
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Dammit, Idaho!
Idaho, you are making it so very hard for me to like you. STOP RAINING ON ME! Well, at least I can now calculate the odds of me living in a place like the Pacific Northwest. And those odds are zero. Ever since we left Riggins, it’s been cloudy, super-cold at night, with daily rain…
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The Idaho adventure continues
I left off the last post as we were setting up camp along the Red River, at a site called French Gulch. And we’d heard that the temps were supposed to drop that night. Maybe as low as 30. Well. There is a saying that there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad gear.…
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Are you sure this is Idaho?!?
When we left Flathead Lake the day after Labor Day, the skies were dark and threatening. Kyle reminded us that all this weather was coming over from Idaho. Nonetheless, Idaho was the next state for us to explore. We set off towards Kalispell, and then took Highway 2 all the way to the State Line.…
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Let’s Go To Idaho
I can’t believe we’re saying goodbye to Montana. I have loved it here! And I’m really glad I took so many pictures. I don’t want to forget all the fabulous things I’ve seen. We spent Labor Day Weekend at our friends Steve and Melissa’s cabin on Flathead Lake, as I mentioned before. We also got to…
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More of Montana
Let’s just get this photo out of the way first: This is the Highline Trail, which runs above Going To The Sun Road. More on that later – but I stitched this together from 3 separate photos using the magic of Photoshop. That’s how big the views are here! But first: the cabin. Our friends…
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An Evening at the Arch, plus Missoula
After spending a chilly night outside of Cooke City, we were pretty happy to head back into Yellowstone for a beautiful day. We got caught in another bison traffic jam – this time caused by some dipshit in a big rental RV, sitting smack-dab in the middle of the road. Once I figured out what…