Headed West; goin’ to a party
We “head(ed) due west to the sunsets, turn(ed) left at the Rocky Mountains” * to officially welcome our new daughter-in-law into the family. As one would hope, it was a great four days of wonderful food,...
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….found my cleanest dirty shirt or bike trails worth riding
Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothesAnd found my cleanest dirty shirt…… Kris Kristofferson We have been on the road for a little more than four weeks now. We are running out of a...
Teddy Roosevelt camped here or 100 miles of perfect asphalt
Drove a perfect road today. Fresh two-lane asphalt for 96 miles; ND-16 north from I-94. Smooth long straightaways to let the truck run, leading into gradual sweeping S-turns that were there for no apparent reason except...
Come for the music; stay for the atmosphere
Leaving the Gallatin and Yellowstone area behind, we headed up to White Sulphur Springs. This stop-over has been on the summer road trip for four years now. White Sulphur Springs is a town of about 800...
Big Sky Resort and Red Cliff Campground
We settled down for a week or so just outside of Big Sky, MT in the Red Cliff campground. This has to be one of the nicest, best kept Forest Service campgrounds we have found. The...
Electronic Throttle Control Warning Light… could be a problem…. no one knows for sure
Sitting in our front yard (for this week) tonight listening to the Gallatin River churn over boulders, there was a parade of Americana passing by. Across the way, there was a gentleman grilling dinner while talking...
On The Road Summer 2021
We are into our first week of the grand summer road trip. The Princess and I look forward to this for months starting when the last summer trip ended. We stayed close to home last summer...
Flowers and Waterfalls with a couple of close calls thrown in..
A few weeks ago, we pointed the rig East again, this time to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is about a 500-mile drive from home to Townsend, TN where we parked the ORV for a week in the Little Arrow Outdoor Resort. I had registered us for a photography workshop concentrating on wildflowers and waterfalls with Mandy Lea Photo.
‘Been a long winter…..
This winter, while not being particularly cold or snowy, has gone on for too long. For me, winter started about last November. By early February, the Princess and I started booking critical campsites so we would...
If you pass up on an adventure, you may miss out on amazing memories.
There is something special about Scotland. I am not sure how to explain it. Maybe it’s the Munros, coastlines, glens, moors, heather-covered landscapes, sheep, the simple life, or maybe the friendly folks. Whatever it is I always feel at peace and at home there.
