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 [...]
Our interest in the Santa Fe Trail was piqued by our stay in the “City Different” so as we headed out of New Mexico on I-25 we decided to stop at two related sites along the way. Our first stop was just twenty-five miles east of Santa Fe at Pecos National Historical Park while our [...]
When the thermometer reached 107 degrees we knew it was high time for us to hit the road. Don’t get me wrong, we love Tucson, but sometimes enough is enough. The funny twist to the high temps is that they are usually required in order to bring the conditions that typify our monsoon season. According [...]
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 [...]
Out here in the Sonoran Desert, the land of five seasons, Spring is a short event running from February through April. Usually our Spring features a gentle warming trend that signals the end of our admittedly short and mild Winter. This year was a bit different as we experienced multiple rapid temperature swings over the [...]
The last leg of our summer trip found us in familiar territory: southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. Several members of my family moved out to the San Simon Valley over a dozen years ago and we love visiting them; not only for their wonderful company but for the gorgeous views. The rhyolitic Chiricahua Mountains [...]
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