Five H’s
Helens, Hiking, Hummocks, Heavenly, Hoffstadt, and oh and…Happy
Read More Five H’sShevlin 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 […]
Read More Shevlin Park and Pilot ButteHigh Desert Museum
Didn’t expect to find my childhood home in a museum!
Read More High Desert MuseumPyramid 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.
Read More Pyramid and Ball LakesGarden of One Thousand Buddhas
A meditation master and scholar of Tibetan Buddhism had a childhood dream about a peace garden in the mountains.
Read More Garden of One Thousand BuddhasMissoula
We found some pretty cool stuff to do, even during a pandemic.
Read More MissoulaBreathing smoke for a week
Wildfires are raging across my state of Oregon, as I’m sure you’ve heard in the news. People have died, homes burned to the ground, and thousands of people evacuated. Friends of mine have been ordered to evacuate their homes, and more have just left to try to find clear air to breathe. California is getting […]
Read More Breathing smoke for a weekBannack ghost town
Bannack was the first capital city of the Montana Territory. In general, the town was famous for its lawlessness.
Read More Bannack ghost townBig 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.
Read More Big Hole National BattlefieldNew Brother
A year ago I got a new brother who was 41 years old.
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