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Spring Fever
I’ve been rather busy lately, and I’m sorry to say I’ve hardly jotted down a word of it. Once the weather here finally turned for spring, I jumped outdoors with both feet (really, the easiest way to do it). Taking … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Outings, Part One: A Solo Mission
On this anniversary of the birth of the great Charles Dickens, it seems only appropriate that I have a story of two opposite outings which I undertook on consecutive days. First, I must apologize for the undue delay in posting. … Continue reading
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Tagged charles dickens, hiking, hiking stick, kamiak butte, snow, solo hike, travel
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The Travel Blog Begins
I’ve started another blog for more travel and transportation-related stuff, including more on our epic cross-country journey of earlier this summer. Go here. Tell your friends.
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Tagged car trip, journey, road trip, transportation, travel
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Crossroads
This blog began, as you may recall, as part of my “Independent Learning Contract” for a college degree. Well, the contract has been successfully concluded. I got full credit and a glowing evaluation. Now what? I wrote a summary report … Continue reading
Where do the Locals Go?
Our next stop for groceries was in Forsyth, which proved both an eerie parallel and a strong contrast to our Kalispell visit. Of course, both are in Montana, and occupy river valleys: Kalispell in the Flathead, and Forsyth in the … Continue reading
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Tagged food desert, forsyth, groceries, Montana, travel
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Across the Divide
As we left the motel in Bigfork (it’s one word) with 500 miles between us and our evening campsite, I thought with regret about the scale and pace of the trip, and the opportunities we would inevitably miss. There’s just … Continue reading
Maybe it’s Montana…
Montana haunts my dreams. We have been pulled into its orbit like so much space debris around a planet, and I suspect we are as thoroughly trapped. As we drove on into that mythic space, the sun refusing to set … Continue reading
Day 1, Continued
Our first day on the road was long, to be sure; 11 hours and change from door to door. Nor was it without mishaps, either: a missed turn that nearly put us into Canada, and a lost campsite by a … Continue reading
Road Trip-Day 1
The first morning was a reminder that the hardest part of any journey is often leaving the house. After pre-packing most of the night before, we had hoped to be on the road by 9 a.m.; We were willing to … Continue reading
Road Trip-Day Zero
I suppose I should have thought through the logistics of blogging on the road a little more thoroughly. While it’s easy enough to scratch and scribble in a pocket notebook, the art and science required to transmute the notepad gatherings … Continue reading
