After leaving Medora we headed east to the state capital. We spent a week along the banks of the Missouri River before continuing on our way to the state’s largest city. As we toured various sites near Bismarck and Fargo we followed a few interesting threads woven through North Dakota’s story. The tapestry, for our [...]
Visiting Theodore Roosevelt National Park has been on our list for quite some time now. So when it became clear that this summer’s route would be through the Great Plains, that middle section of the country that we have only whizzed through before, we knew we’d definitely have to head to that southwestern corner of [...]
It was going to be a long day; we were leaving Loveland, Colorado headed for Spearfish, South Dakota. A distance of 400 miles (give or take a few)—roughly double what we usually tackle. It may not sound like all that far to those of you in a passenger vehicle but considering that our top (safe) [...]
As a country we are very fortunate that the northern portion of Colorado’s Rockies are devoid of mineral wealth and that the climate in the upper elevations is harsh and unsuitable for ranching or farming. It is precisely for those reasons that the 266,000-acre Rocky Mountain National Park exists today (well, that and the unflagging [...]
First things that came to mind when I used to think about Colorado: Rocky Mountains, snow, Rockies (baseball team), Colorado River, Continental Divide, Coors beer, wheat, cows, and gold (not necessarily in that order). Well, I can toss some of that out of the window now. After visiting Colorado for two weeks the Centennial State [...]
The funny thing is when I think back over the past few months my thoughts are filled with our house: toiling in the yard, working on the house, painting, minor repairs and trip after trip to the home improvement stores. Yet when I flip through the pictures I realize that isn’t the complete story. Looking [...]
The first part of the year here at Rancho Sol has been a bit unusual. Winter and Spring have tussled over just exactly which season is in charge. Several times now I have washed our heavy blankets and stored them away only to have to retrieve them again—most recently about a week ago. It sounds [...]
There is a dangerous invasion occurring here in the Southwest. Nope, not the human kind that has received so much media attention lately (that’s a whole ‘nother story for a different time). The invader I’m referring to has the potential to completely destroy the landscape here in southern Arizona: it is a plant known as [...]
A cool yet sunny Saturday morning in mid-January found me in a carpool with some talented environmental educators. Our destination was Florida Station which is located, appropriately enough, in Florida Canyon along the northwest edge of the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson. And before I get to far ahead, you should know that it [...]
One of the many things that I love about traveling is being a tourist. Not in the annoying, stereotypical American type of way but in the exploratory way. For better or worse, I was born with an insatiable curiosity (ask anyone who knew me as a child). Perhaps when I was small someone read me [...]
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