I always wanted to see Marlboro Country. You know the kind of place…where bow-legged cowboys herd cattle with horses…where roping steers is a highly regarded skill…where ranchers shoot off their porches and fix venison for dinner. A place where the deer and the antelope play and seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day. A […]
RV Camping at Wal-Mart
Minnesota, Michigan, Florida, Hawaii, Saskatchewan, Washington, Tennessee, British Columbia, South Dakota… just some of the RV plates I saw in Wal-Mart’s parking lot this morning (I’m still scratching my head, how do they drive from Hawaii?). No matter. Today’s post is about Wal-Mart camping. I read an article on Levonne’s Meanderings… about a couple who […]
Bear Attack at Soda Butte Campground Kills Michigan Man
Camping isn’t for the faint of heart. There is the possibility that you’ll have to do your duty in some vile scented pit toilet, wash your dishes in some potty like contraption, or even get mutilated by a bear. We enjoy camping in Many Glacier and are aware of bear attacks. This picture shows one of our campsites […]
Jack Hanna Sprays GRIZZLY BEAR with Pepper Spray!
It was around 5:30 a.m. and I had just rolled over to the side of the bed with the window fan so I could feel the breeze when David came in and told me that Jack Hanna, the famous zookeeper, had sprayed a bear on the Grinnell trail. My early bird husband probably didn’t notice, but […]
Keifer Sutherland’s Montana Ranch and Julia Roberts his Runaway Bride
This is a story of connections between celebrities; the story of actors from Brokeback Mountain, The Runaway Bride, and “24”. _________________________ Guess who was in line with me at Super 1 a few weeks ago? I can’t be absolutely certain that it was him, because I didn’t ask, but it definitely looked like him. He was good […]
Random Thoughts
I’ve got a lot of random thoughts going on around in my head this morning, so bear with me. Number One ~ I feel kind of funny. No, not the ha, ha kind of funny but the weird and eerie kind of funny. I was reading the morning paper when I ran across an article […]
Black Pine Cone Doozies
I’m stumped again. Can anyone tell me what type of pine cone this is? I had never seen cones like this before. My husband spotted these little doozies on our hike last Saturday. I was up ahead on the trail and he called me to come back and take a look. He seemed really impressed and […]
East Glacier and Scenic Point Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana
Our camping gear is in the van for summer. It’s hiking season, so we headed to Two Medicine to camp and hike. The campground was full, and we were lucky enough to get the last room in East Glacier.
Yellowstone – Beautiful But Deadly
….And now for the rest of the story. Tuesday’s post left you hanging as I took a tongue in cheek view of the boardwalk rules in Yellowstone National Park. My daughter had asked the question, “how did they build the boardwalks”, as we walked along a trail observing steaming hot springs and boiling water bubble out of the crust around […]
How Did They Build the Boardwalks?
I thought it was a reasonable question when E asked, “How did they build the boardwalks?” Boardwalks, the foremost means of seeing the sights in Yellowstone. We were walking around on the Yellowstone Caldera, the largest super volcano on the continent. Let me correct myself, we were not actually walking on the crust but on the […]
