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Destinations
What has been your most favorite destination, and why? I’d love to see a picture, if you care to share, or a brief history of the area. I’ll share mine: Great Falls National Park: it’s everything and more than what any picture I had ever seen. This is a place that I have wanted to experience since I was a kid, reading history and looking at magazine pictures. There is so much history in this park, and for the most part, it’s been left to the wild. With that said, the string of traffic was disheartening, although we were in that very line of vehicles, trying to see everything we…
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Placemats and Thanksgiving
A couple months ago we finally bought a new dining table. It’s not that the old one was in disrepair, but it was time to replace it. The table has dark wood on the top and a white base, with six matching chairs. This is all a backstory, leading up to the reason for this thread… While in Montana, we stopped at an old antique shop, that also had a crazy woman boutique place attached to the shop. The husbands words, not mine, plus that was the name of her boutique. I don’t actually know if she is crazy, or not, but probably. Anyway, back to the reason for this…
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I Saw a Moose!
On our way to Great Falls, we stopped in a small town for a bathroom and refreshments. It was a bar, that was also the convenience store. They had beer on tap, a soda pop cooler and small bags of chips, and an old man that wondered where we were heading. I, of course, was more than happy to have a conversation with the old stranger. I told him we were going to spend a few days in the Great Falls area and he said we should make the drive up to Glacier National Park and drive the “Going to the Sun Road” and also added that we’d see plenty…
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Glacier National Park
I have had a love for Montana since I was a kid, as I am sure I have mentioned a few times before. I read a book that just captivated me with the descriptions of the mountains, the streams, snow filled winters and spring rainstorms. My imagination took off in what I could only picture as mountains of paradises. Some think of paradise as a beach with bountiful fruit trees in every yard and days filled with no worries and fishing for dinner, but for me, it’s the mountains with snowy peaks and spring fed streams with glacier lakes. In my quest to one day experience Montana, I had always…
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Wyoming and Beyond
We’ve been trying to get away for a few months now, and wasn’t sure we’d be able to until the spring, so this trip was a quick planned vacation. We knew we wanted to see more of Montana, though; I decided to send us on a big loop from Nevada across Utah and into Wyoming for the first leg. It’s been beautiful with wide open spaces, big red rock formations, over mountain passes and across the continental divide three times. The views are breathtaking, the skies are blue and clouds are white, fluffy figurines across wide open spaces. It’s refreshing to be away from the smoke filled Nevada skies for…
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On the Road . . .
We left a few hours ago and we are on our way to Montana, but stopping in Idaho Falls for two nights. It is a beautiful day with rain in the clouds and gloom in the skies. Abby was hugged, and loved on for most of the morning, and then again when she was sad to see the bags being packed. It was a sad sight to watch her mope about, so I gave her a new raw hide bone to take her mind off of what she knew was coming. It didn’t though. She continued to mope around, bone hanging from mouth as she followed me about.. I do…