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My friend, McKenzie and I were looking for something to do one weekend that would be fun, and different than what we normally do...which is pretty much go to coffee, or breakfast, or go shopping, or something around town. So we decided to go fishing...kind of random for us, but that's what we were going for. We got up early, went and bought fishing licenses, and set off on our adventure. First we went to Hauser Dam, and climbed down below the dam to try our luck. The only thing I managed to d...

Well, I've been home for a couple weeks now, and after getting over the initial exhaustion of the trip home, which honestly didn't take long at all, and after clearing up the case of ringworm which I contracted from McKenzie's cat, which took a bit longer, and was pretty uncomfortable, I officially have the travel bug. I'm ready to go again, but unfortunately my bank account doesn't agree. I'm going to be paying this one off for quite awhile, but it was so worth it, and I know I will never re...

Little Bighorn Battlefield, the site of Custer's last stand, was our next stop.   They have several memorials on the site.   General George Armstrong Custer and about 200 of his cavalrymen, severely underestimated the fighting ability of several thousand Native Americans they were trying to exterminate, and they were all slaughtered here at Little Bighorn back in 1876.  They have several stone markers on the hill, showing where each soldier fell and was buried.  ...

Montana is one of my favorite states!!!! I think it would be very difficult not to fall in love with the big sky country! the landscape is amazing and the atmosphere of the state is so inviting!!! There are plenty of nature adventures to be had and people to meet :P

Incredibly blue skies and very cool, maybe even cold, temperatures greeted us this morning in Red Lodge and we were ready to ride.  Jan and I warmed up quickly after a brisk walk to the Red Lodge Post Office to buy stamps and mail our post cards back home.   I like to mail myself a post card from every place we stop on our motorcycle trips, reminding me of where we went and what we saw each day.  This helps me to remember when I get back home and try to put my scrapbook to...

Tonight we are in Whitefish, just about 25 miles west of Glacier National Park.   Dinner was at the local Pizza Hut.  The waitress there made to evening meal really fun, because everytime she came by the table she was wearing a different pair of silly glasses, and had something fun or silly to comment on.   Waterfalls = 31, bridges = 11, tunnels = 6   Gas was $2.999  

  It was hard to leave the reservoir with its surround of green after all of the dry grasslands yesterday, but take off we did.  We were out of ND very early on this morning and started across MT headed to Glacier National Park. We are taking the scenic route 12 most of the way, more cattle and grasslands.  :-) The last two days we have been looking for a Dodge dealer that has a lift big enough to use on the Roadtrek for an oil change.   We found one in Miles City a...

I found another picture in Walt’s (WaltJake) recent blog that I had to change.  Oh, there was absolutely nothing wrong with the shot the way he took or the way it turned out.     But if I went down the same road two minutes later it would look the way the second photo looks.  And there would be no sign of the guys who put the sign up, either as a joke or for real?!?  It just seems to be my luck out in the wide open spaces.  And I’ll just bet that as...

What a week it has been. This country out here is fantastic!!! As my dad would say"it's God's country". We have been through four ststes, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and South Dakota. We drove 2596 miles in 8 days and have seen some superb country. We visited, Bozeman, Big Sky, West Yellowstone, Gardiner, Rapid City, and Wall. Some of the folks we have talked too had come out here to work in Yellowstone National park and ended up staying 15 years or more. We hit the best year for snow...

We got to Montana, Kalispell.  We could see a lot of mountains.  My son waved other bikers on his backseat.  "We can communicate with other riders if they wave back us." my son said.  She grew up to be a biker day by day.

Seattle, WA - Glacier NP, MT - rails through northern route home

"The history of the conversion of the Northwest American Indian Tribes to the Catholic religion is a story filled with inspiration and tragedy. Paradoxically, the Indians sought the "Blackrobes", Catholic missionary priests, before the priests sought them. After many hardships, they joyfully received Father Pierre DeSmet, SJ, in their camps. With his help, they became exemplary Catholics and were prepared to face their changing world with the assurance of salvation." (from The Price of Their ...

So we woke up refreshed (yeah right, actually all of us with backaches!) ready for the day ahead.  The wedding we were attending wasn't until 6:00 pm so we had the whole day. We ate at a restaurant for breakfast instead of cooking.  It was just down the road from us again, this place was called Elmer's.  It had a really country home cooking feeling as you went in, we were seated right away and the help was really really good.  Our food tasted amazing and we got very ...

Shauney and I have been friends since High School.  While I live 2,000 miles away, I always do what I can to stop by and visit with her and her family.  They lead a life of creativity...to survive in Montana: raise elk, play music, drive truck/school bus/etc, operate an equipment maintenance shop.I called to inform of my passing a couple miles from their house...said to 'Come on by..."We sat on the back deck of the house, enjoying the evening, catching up and playing with their newl...

This week I had met with another Czech girl that lives here in Bozeman, Marie. With Marie we arranged to go on a hike up to Hyalite Lake and if we still had the energy we would go all the way up to Hyalite Peak. Tip: if you are running late don't eat cereal for breakfast, this isn't the kind of food that you can just gulp down. Since we started early it was still quite cold. As we walked up the sun started shining. Once at the lake we sat down and had a little lunch. By this time it was start...