It's been a little more low key as you can probably tell from the slowing of travel posts. We've continued to make our way West through the haze. After the amazing views, drives, and hikes of the Black Hills and Glacier, we're settling into…
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A Work in Progress
I wrote this a couple weeks ago and never published. Here's a recap our pros and cons of traveling. Well we've made it a full month in our travels. I think I was expecting a more laid back pace but we've moved at least…
Short post just to add a few of my favorite shots from the trip so far. Glacier was by far the most spectacular site we've been to. Its a major national park with insane traffic for a reason! We did both a sunrise and a couple of sunset…
I didn't really know what to expect at Glacier. Ignorantly, I thought I would see a mountain of ice on land. That actually would have been more true ages ago. There are still Glaciers in the park but they are down to 26 in number. By 2030 it…
As we travel out West I tend to think about the Pioneers and what it was like for them. Someone commented they felt bad for us traveling in a 100+ degree day. I said it wasn't really so bad- we have air conditioning! Despite traveling in luxury you…
It's been pretty dry looking in Montana- is this the norm? We've passed a prairie fire once and lots of other burned looking areas. The sky looks hazy. It gets very windy. Then you enter Glacier National park. Mountains, trees, waterfalls. Majestic. I honestly didn'…
It's a different landscape for sure. Driving through there's less trees, the rolling hills seem more brown the green, except for the farm land which appears to be constantly watered. The skies are hazy. We saw some smoke in the distance and wondered what it was.…
One of the last things we did in South Dakota was to visit Wind Caves National park. We did a guided cave tour, which was only about a mile, but we learned some pretty incredible things. It was discovered by two brothers hunting. They heard the rushing wind in a…