End of the Road
We're heading today to the northern Idaho lakeside town of Coeur D’Alene, the final stop on our road trip before returning home to Seattle. But before we leave Montana, there’s one more more stop we need to make. Montana it seems is pretty hooked on gambling. Just about every strip mall and every se...
Hey Dude
From Gardiner, we set out on the westward drive across Montana to our last but one stop. According to the Apple map app, it's a relatively short drive today but after our bad map app experience of the previous evening, I did ask Google maps for a second opinion! Much of the route across the state is...
The Mighty Quinn
Leaving Cody, we continue our journey west, skirting the Wyoming/Montana state line towards the small town of Gardiner. The final section of this leg takes us into Yellowstone National Park and the road we’re on passes through Mammoth Hot Springs, the headquarters of the military back in the day whe...
Rodeo in Cody-O
Bikers Unchained Leaving the Black Hills of Dakota, we head due west again although not quite retracing the route of the drive to Rapid City. Shortly after leaving Rapid City, we pass by Sturgis, the home of the world famous (or perhaps I should say, infamous) annual motorcycle rally. This event att...
A Monumental Diversion
Wyoming has the smallest population of any of the 50 states in the Union. That’s apparent as it could possibly be when as we do, you drive from one side of the state to the other. Jackson is on the western edge of Wyoming close to the Idaho state line and our destination today is Rapid City, South...
Show Us Your Tetons....
And of course it's the mountain range in northwestern Wyoming that the title refers to, whatever those who understand French slang might think!! Jackson is a thriving and very prosperous mountain town. Once a typical western/cowboy town, Jackson has become in the past couple of decades an upscale sk...
Lord of the Flies
The next stop is not actually in the very pretty mountain town of Park City, of the 2002 Winter Olympics and the annual Sundance Film Festival, but further up the mountain in Deer Valley. Or to be more precise, the Stein Eriksen Lodge named for the man who was the father of recreational and sports s...
“Underneath The Arches.....”
We fly from Seattle to Salt Lake City and our much anticipated road trip begins in earnest! Slight wobble to begin with when we have to wait in line at the Avis counter for over an hour and a half to pick up a car. None of the other rental car outlets have any lines and why Avis is so much in demand...
Paradise Regained
Our much anticipated road trip through the interior west doesn't start in earnest for another couple of days. But due to circumstances unforeseen, we find ourselves unexpectedly with a "spare" day in Seattle. The riots and demonstrations of a few weeks back have subsided, the world-famous "occupied...