the wednesday night b4 thanksgiving…

and i’m tired. but my house is clean, one of those rare times when it looks pretty good and i wish it looked that way more often. the thing about cleaning is that you get it all done and then it just gets dirty/messy again. meanwhile… as i wrote last time,...

here at home!!!

whew, plenty has been going on around here since we got back to spfld at the end of September…like, for example, it’s almost thanksgiving! two more days. must get on it. but backtracking, highlights of this fall: on Monday Sept. 20th we drove up to...

Train trip home

The train arrived at the station right on time on Sunday morning, Sept. 22nd, and left promptly at 9:50. Here’s a picture of the river as we left the station. I didn’t take any more pictures most of the trip home. It was a fine trip, and we met some more...

Heading out – Sunday, Sept. 22nd

First, as I mentioned, we’d been given the terrific map which detailed all 88 “day hikes” in Glacier – all 734 miles of trails. We hiked on about eleven of them, which isn’t bad for our first trip. However, ten of the 88 day hikes are 15+...

Last night in Glacier

After leaving the park (and our exciting bear sighting!) we drove down the road to the tiny town of East Glacier. I had to take a picture of this motel because i grew up only two blocks from the Sears department store, so Sears always has a place in my heart. I...

Hiking in Two Medicine, plus a BEAR!

After packing up our stuff and heading over to East Glacier, we went into the Two Medicine entrance of the park and had a little snack lunch in our car. it was chilly and windy. We hiked on the Running Eagle Falls nature trail and quickly arrived at the falls....

Farewell to the Hungry Horse Hideout…

Saturday morning, Sept. 21st, It took us a while to load up all our stuff. And i had to run around and take some last photos of some of the cute outside stuff…can you spot the metal bicycle to the left of the aspen tree? I wish i’d taken a picture of the...