Shevlin Park and Pilot Butte

If you read my last post, you saw that I drove the 4 1/2 hours down to Bend, Oregon to see an art show and found my childhood home at a museum. I spent one night in Bend and found two quick, easy trails to walk the next morning. First of all I enjoyed Shevlin […]

High Desert Museum

Didn’t expect to find my childhood home in a museum!

Pyramid and Ball Lakes

I had just been complicit in a six-hour hike with no food in the mountains with an eighty-year-old man.

Garden of One Thousand Buddhas

A meditation master and scholar of Tibetan Buddhism had a childhood dream about a peace garden in the mountains.

Missoula

We found some pretty cool stuff to do, even during a pandemic.

Bannack ghost town

Bannack was the first capital city of the Montana Territory. In general, the town was famous for its lawlessness.

Big Hole National Battlefield

A ceremony was underway because it was exactly 143 years since military scouts spied on a Nez Perce camp and prepared to slaughter them.

St. Helens foothills

Forty years later it’s amazing both that there is so much life here, and that I can still see the devastating effects of the volcanic eruption.

Weekend in Lyle

I know I am spoiled that I have the option to get out of town when others don’t. I am grateful.

The Modoc tribe survives

I am compelled to understand what led to war and planned genocide of a people.