My last day in Montana. I will be sorry to leave this lovely state. We headed out in the morning for Gem Mountain, which is about 20 miles out of Anaconda, half-way between Butte and Missoula. It was a lovely...
Today was our last morning at the ranch. Brian brought us the best fluffy flapjacks I'd ever tasted for breakfast. Then Brian, Mom, and I drove out to see the haunted ruin of the original ranch cabin with its mysterious bedstead...
Our family group split up today after a super breakfast of ham, eggs and potatoes. Dad went for a full day fly fishing trip with the lodge guide, a nice guy from Wisconsin named Art. Mom wanted an R&R day...
Yellowstone today! We headed out right after a nice ranch breakfast – served to us by a young cowboy named Brian – and drove down through the Yankee Jim Canyon to the great Gates of Yellowstone, dedicated by Teddy Roosevelt. ...
Today we drove the Beartooth highway into Yellowstone. It was an exhausting, long trip, but worth every minute of the drive. The Beartooth highway twists and turns through amazing, snow-covered mountains, up to a lovely scenic overlook. After taking many...
After a nice breakfast, Mom, Dad and I headed out to the pictograph caves, which were just down the hill from our Billings hotel. The caves were in a little box-canyon and there were two of them – one filled...
I had a relaxing breakfast this morning, sharing the table at the hotel lobby with a delightful senior lady who discussed everything from travel to politics to child-rearing in such a humorous, delightfully wise manner that by the end of the...
The muse was upon me as soon as I woke up this morning, so I sat down right away and wrote another story for Spooky Montana. This one was about the Conrad Mansion I visited a few days ago, written...
Today was a research day in lovely Helena, capitol city of Montana. I spent the morning in the Montana Historical Society archives, where several delightful librarians had prepared a whole cart full of spooky materials for me to review. Very...
I was lazy this morning, rising late and doing some leisurely writing before a late breakfast. I managed to get myself checked out before they kicked me out, but only just! Then I wandered over to the Lewis and Clark...
Today I woke up to clear skies and sunshine -- at last! To my amazement, the lodge really was nestled at the foot of snow-covered mountains. Who would have guessed? I was so inspired by the ghostly storytelling of last...
I signed up to go on an historic red bus tour today -- and of course woke up to heavy rain, low clouds and occasional bursts of snow! We went anyway, crossing the Continental Divide twice in a little red...
A Walk in the Treetops. It sounded cool in the brochure. But rising early and winding my way up and up Big Mountain, I realized I was getting jittery. It's not so much heights that get to me as the...
After a hasty breakfast at C'Mon Inn, I drove up to the National Bison Range Wildlife Refuge on the Salish/Flathead Reservation. It was a glorious drive with the Mission Mountains rising up before me as I turned into the lane...
Today started way too early! Up at five a.m. in the dark to get to the airport by 6 a.m. I flew out of Newark, NJ. First stop was Minneapolis with a quick layover and then on to Missoula,...
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