“The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup.“ Well, not for me. I’m a coffee and chicory kind of gal, Community New Orleans Blend that is. But that doesn’t make me any less impressed with 2008 Flathead High School graduates Ethan Thompson and Jenny Snipstead. Now college students, Thompson and Snipstead along […]
Glacier Country
Adventure on the edge of the wilderness
Chinese Water Torture?
Drip, Drip, Drip…droplets of fairy rain floating down from the heavens. So sparse and light I can barely tell it’s raining except for the ground being wet and the steady dripping from my roof. It’s been like this for days, forcing us to cancel our Memorial Day trip to Yellowstone. Our picnic in the park this afternoon […]
Another Miserable Day in Yellowstone?
As we approach Memorial Day weekend, it is not feeling much like summertime and I am reminded of a previous Memorial Day that my family and I spent in Yellowstone National Park. We were greeted by a blizzard. We donned our snow bibs, while other tourists unprepared for winter, snatched up souvenir sweatshirts to keep warm. Grungy as […]
Hunter Hot Springs Mystery Photograph
It is purported that the following notable figures in our history had gathered together for a hunting trip to Hunter Hot Springs, Montana: Wyatt Earp, Theodore Roosevelt, Doc Holiday, “Liver Eating” Johnson, Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid, Bat Materson, and Judge Roy Bean. _________________________ A Journey of Discovery The first time I saw this […]
The Yellow Brick Road
Damp, bleak, and chilly….Springtime in the Rockies anyone? After a night of blustery winds and rain that woke up everyone in the house, we’re left with drippy, drab, and gray. It was so noisy around 2:00 a.m., that I finally had to get up to see what all the commotion was. It turned out that […]
Close Encounters of the Buffalo Kind
Before I rattle on about our trip to the zoo (Montana style), I would like to thank Blogger for honoring me with Blog of Note yesterday. I was at Costco all morning having my winter studded tires changed over to my summer ones. When I returned, I checked my email and found that Angie had […]
Glacier National Park Centennial
One hundred years ago today on May 11, 1910, Glacier National Park was designated our nation’s 10th national park. For those of you that follow my blog, you know my affection for our nation’s parks and belief that they are all treasures. I encourage you to visit them and discover each one’s unique personality. […]
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Kalispell
THIRTY-EIGHT days and counting! I am sooo excited! NOT!! Here’s how it looked a couple of weeks ago. I have mixed feelings about the opening of the new Wal-Mart Supercenter. I like to think that I live in the wild west and in one of the last places on earth without a Wal-Mart Supercenter. All […]
Red Jammer Bus of Glacier National Park
A polished and spiffed up Red Jammer ready for passengers. I had to chuckle when I read a woman’s complaints about taking the red jammer bus tour of the Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park. She said it had taken about 9 1/2 hours round trip to travel from the hemlock forests of West Glacier over […]
Jammer Joe – The Red Bus Driver in the Grizzly Suit
Little did I know at the time, that the man with the handle bar mustache and bear suit was well known around Glacier National Park. His name is Joe Kendall and he’s a farmer from Illinois who fell in love with Glacier National Park 59 years ago. It was May of 2005 and […]
