Category: Uncategorized

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Beautiful Bozeman

    We came up to Bozeman via West Yellowstone and Big Sky. A beautiful drive, and I was excited to see a new city in Montana. We have friends here, Brian and Sarah. Brian owns a bike/ski shop in Bozeman called the Gear Wizard, and they’ve lived in Bozeman for years now. We set up the truck…

  • Yellowstone (part 2)

      As I mentioned before, Yellowstone is waaay too big to cover in just one day. Therefore it’s too big to cover in just one blog post. The adventure continues!    

  • Yellowstone (part 1)

    Yellowstone might just be too big for a single post. We ended up spending a total of five days in and around this amazing National Park. We drove up through the south entrance on the 15th, arriving around 5pm or so, and our first stop was the West Thumb area. I was excited to show…

  • Grand Teton National Park, Adventures in off-roading, and the Elvis dilemma

    We made it to the Tetons today! After camping last night outside of Moran Junction, we headed into the Park around 9am and spent most of the day there, including a nice picnic lunch and a 6-mile hike out to Bradley Lake.                   Eventually we headed out…