Destination: Devils Tower. The setting of the 1977 Steven Spielberg cult classic movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. We mentioned this to our 20’s and 30’s kids before leaving home, and were met with blank looks. They had never seen nor heard of this movie! Then we realized it was made 45 years. Dang, we are getting old. Devils Tower …...
Picture yourself: driving through the fields of North Dakota, for miles and miles on end. Nothing to see but endless expanses of farmland … the occasional mailbox … a random abandoned tractor here and there. You’re yawning and biting the inside of your cheek hard to stay awake, when suddenly … “HEY, what’s that in the distance...
(Everyone sing along) “Oh, give me a home … where the buffalo roam …” Our current rolling home was nestled RIGHT where the buffalo roam! We had a “Bully Good Time” (to quote the man himself) at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the New York Times’ pick for the “#5 Place to See in the World,” and its roaming herd of 550+...
Halfway between Butte and Bozeman, Montana, lies …. pretty much nothing. Big fields. Expansive views. A few cows. Guys in trucks who tailgate and drive really fast. But also ….. Lewis and Clark Caverns! This unassuming little Montana state park packs quite a wallop, and you’re gonna have a cavern-sized hole in your heart if you miss it when in this...
Early June: It’s 106 degrees back home in AZ — 41 degrees here in Montana. Though none is falling on us, the 10,000-foot Highlands Mountains surrounding the hillside town of Butte are blanketed in snow. It’s simply Butte-iful! Butte is called the “Richest Hill on Earth” because of the immense amount of precious metals pulled from the...
We leave Idaho in the rear-view, and head into Montana, called “Big Sky Country,” and is it any wonder why? But I propose a name change to “Big Hat Country!” All you need to know about Ennis, Montana is the fact that there are seven fly-fishing stores in a three-block town. Population: 840 people and 11 million trout. We learned a lot about...
Spud. Tater. Tuber. Tottie. No matter what you call it, if you’re in Blackfoot, Idaho, you’re a-gonna worship it! Quite obviously, the Idaho Potato Museum shares with you all of the riveting history, agriculture, and economics of the state’s most important product and the majority of the nation’s most important food product, the french fry...
Our three-month 2022 Summer Trip started in southern Utah, with a whole bunch of BEST FRIENDS! Best Friends Animal Society – home to 1,600 critters! Set on 6,000 acres in the Kanab Canyon, BEST FRIENDS‘ motto is “Save Them All,” and here they work to do just that … whether fur or feathers, old or young, feline, canine, porcupine …...
Heading back to Arizona from California, the last two stops of our 3-week trip were in Yuma (far southwestern corner); and Sierra Vista (far southeastern corner), where Philip was to participate in a three-day bike touring event. It was fun to be a part of the first-ever, inaugural “Tour de Zona,” organized by the excellent folk who have put on the Tour...
Our week spent in San Diego was probably not what you’d expect. Shows at Sea World, crowds at Mission Beach, “dogs not allowed” harbor cruises …. no, no, and no! Eschewing a mad dash from “thing” to “thing,” we instead basked in the simple things that make RV living — no matter where we go! — so appealing to...