June 2, 2021

6.10.21 Sounds like a roadside gimmick, doesn’t it — the Crystal Gold Mine and RV Park. But it’s a genuine gold mine in the Idaho

6.8.21 We went to Bozeman mainly to see our daughter Maya, working a temporary management stint at a Comfort Suites there for a few weeks.

6.5.21 The Big Horn County Historical Museum sat so close to where we’d been camped nearly a week that it’s almost embarrassing we nearly missed

6.4.21 Lu’s birthday, June 4, and after several days of the usual Western pattern — cold mornings, blazing hot midday — she wanted something indoors

6.2.21 You meet people on the road you’ll probably never see again, but some of them stick with you anyway. There was the guy who

5.23.21 Theodore Roosevelt fell for the cowboy life out here as a young man, ran two cattle ranches in what’s now Theodore Roosevelt National Park

5.19.21 On the drive west out of Minnesota we stopped at the rest area with the Dignity statue — 50 feet of stainless steel, a

Saturday, October 3 Family photos in the yard before we could even leave — Lu likes to keep that tradition going no matter what the

8.8.2020 Hadn’t been out West in a while, and you forget things about it until you’re back — how big the sky actually is, how