Cape Falcon

One way to find fun at the end of a cold, wet, sad, December is to go for a hike.

Mouth of the Columbia

Door connoisseurs may appreciate these rusty doors.

Five H’s

Helens, Hiking, Hummocks, Heavenly, Hoffstadt, and oh and…Happy

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.