The northern edge of the Black Hills of South Dakota lies almost exactly 200 miles due south of the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt NP, an easy drive on US85 from Medora. It’s relatively mundane scenery, looking across rolling prairie, until you are within sight of the Black Hills, about the same time as US85 … Continue reading
After visiting the Buffalo Bill Center, we headed north on WY120 into Montana near Billings where we hopped onto I-90 eastbound, then southbound, to the Little Bighorn Battlefield NM, arriving just before dinnertime on Sunday, August 30. In preparation for this trip, I read several books about the Sioux and the Indian Wars of the … Continue reading
Leaving Yellowstone NP, our goal for the day was to drive to Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana. But, having all day to travel the 250 miles, we stopped for a couple hours in Cody, Wyoming, to visit the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. One of the statutes in front of the Center, … Continue reading
We were informed upon entering the park when we first arrived that the road from Canyon Village to Tower-Roosevelt was closed for the year for maintenance and that there had also been an unexpected closure of the road between Canyon Village and Fishing Bridge due to an overturned fuel truck and the environmental clean-up that … Continue reading
On the drive from West Thumb to Old Faithful, the road crosses the Continental Divide twice, the second crossing being Craig Pass at elevation 8,262 feet. Straddling Craig Pass is Isa Lake (more like a large pond in my opinion), one of the only natural water bodies in the world that drains into two oceans; … Continue reading
Yellowstone National Park was established on March 1, 1872, as the world’s first national park. For over 100 years it was the largest national park in the United States, being surpassed in 1980 by several created that year in Alaska. A rectangle carved out of the state of Wyoming, measuring 54 miles east-west and 63 … Continue reading
This was going to be our big travel year: Central Asia; the Caucasus; South Africa. But, then … well, you know. Lockdown. But life is not risk-free and by August, having had enough of homebound imprisonment, we decided to take our chances and make a break for the Free States of the High Plains: Montana; … Continue reading
Leaving Fort Collins on Labor Day, we avoided the high passes of I-70 and the holiday traffic in and out of Denver, driving north on US Highway 287 to Laramie, Wyoming, then west on I-80 around the northern peaks of the Rocky Mountains. We left I-80 and Wyoming on WY-789, which soon became CO-13 (photo … Continue reading
My favorite month to be in Bellingham, Washington, is September. But, this year, we will be elsewhere: visiting our daughter, Kelly, in Colorado; our son, Trevor, and daughter-in-law, Alicia, in Arizona; and, traveling and hiking with our good friends, Jim and Von Gern, in Utah and the Grand Canyon. Anxious to get to Colorado, we … Continue reading
The Road Less Traveled 