To the tune of Home on the Range” Oh let me be homeless, With the buffalo on the road, And the elk and the antelope play… It took us a bit to get out of Red Lodge. As it turns out, there are two Cenex stations. So the bridge after the Cenex is actually the […]
We spent the night in Red Lodge, Montana. Neither of us had ever been, and we both wanted to see it. Turns out it is a nice Montana town. It is at about 5500 feet of elevation, but doesn’t seem it. This may partially be because it is in a river valley. The ski area […]
We finally made it to Theodore Roosevelt National Park (TRNP). We were supposed to have made it here on August 25th, Blakey’s birthday. Given the things that ensued, we did not. But we were not to be denied! I am pretty sure that we have had a stunningly beautiful autumn as the karmic counter-measure against […]
Finally we are heading to Theodore Roosevelt State Park. Steve just couldn’t let go of this being our first destination heading west. I was all for camping in August, but October. So I am thinking walking, drive by touring and a nice hotel room tonight! It has been exactly 3 months since I retired. What […]
We went over to Door County to see my mom and to enjoy the fall colors. The drive over was nice, we many trees in full bloom. We had a killing frost Saturday night, so it probably pushed the remaining straggling trees over the edge. We got there on Wednesday in time to attend the […]
On the way back from the memorial/reunion in Kentucky (Ellen’s family), we decided to spend the night in Baraboo, Wisconsin (my family). My grandparents Donahue were born and raised in this general area. Baraboo First things first. We drove up to West Street to see the Grandma and Grandpa’s house. Back in the day, the […]
We took a different route than usual on our way to the John Helm memorial service in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Rather than sticking to the interstates we headed down through Rochester to the bluffs of Iowa. At Decorah we cut over to Illinois, spending the night in Springfield, the capital. Springfield was not an accidental […]
Last weekend our good friends Beth and John invited us to their family lake cabin in celebration of John’s birthday. The cabin is on Red Cedar Lake, near Birchwood, Wisconsin. We biked, boated, talked, ate, drank wine, went for pizza, and generally had an all-around good time. Truth be told, there were actually five of […]
Anyone familiar with cabin living is likely to have had the experience of some sort of chachkie collection. In the case of our cabin at Big Lake Carnelian, there is a rather extensive collection of bears. OK, so I’ve had some fun practicing taking macro shots with my camera. And now without further ado:
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