Category: Weekly updates
Rocky Mountain National Park
We made it safely to Estes Park, beautiful drive along the Big Thompson River, and checked into Spruce Lake RV park….it is a great little park very close to one of the RMNP entrances. After the stressful week, we hit up Bird and Jim a fabulous restaurant for an amazing burger and tuna poke bowl.…
Lockdown in Loveland or
a very expensive oil change. We hit the road in Custer heading to Loveland CO and onto Rocky Mountain National Park. Long day but we were making the most of the town by stopping at Costco to buy booze for the wedding, getting an oil change and tire rotation at Les Schwab and then heading…
“Custer….bonkers.”
The quote above is from the “The Rest Is History” podcast which is hosted by Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland, two British authors and historians, who are hysterical. We decided as we were driving to Custer that we should bone up on our American history and be reminded of the story of Little Big Horn,…
Mitch and Sarah’s wedding
What a weekend in Osage Iowa! We had such a wonderful time connecting with extended family again to celebrate Mitch and Sarah’s wedding. Mitch is the second Huftalin cousin to get married and will be followed rapidly by Max in September and Ben in October! Suffice it to say, we will be in great dancing…
Western Michigan
We left the Upper Peninsula by crossing the Mighty Mackinaw Bridge which is nearly 5 miles long and pretty amazing engineering. The towers are 550 ft. above water and 250 below and there are 42,000 wires bonded together to make the main cable. It came with a cost of $99M back in 1957 so a…
You know you’re in the midwest when….
We are staying at Straits State Park in St. Ignace MI and it is a cute little state park with great access to Lake Huron and the Mackinac Island ferries. The park has a trail system taking you to bridge overlooks and the lake and is a nice place to settle for a few days.…
Not just great…Superior.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy…. RIP…Gordon Lightfoot We’ve spent the last week exploring Lake Superior from Duluth, MN through Iron Lake, WI, Madeline Island, WI and…
Flathead Lake/Butte Folk Festival/Bozeman
From Glacier, we hit Polson MT and stayed a few days at the KOA there….had some fun on Flathead Lake which I had heard about but never visited. We rented a deck boat and cruised the lake for a bit, ventured out to Wild Horse Island and then back to do some fishing. I caught…
Hello Montana…..
This was our first wildlife in Glacier National Park and it was fabulous. This is the Hidden Lake hike, and although still snow covered, we hiked to the overlook and saw some goats….this guy was real close and the others moving to the hilltops. Very cool…. Three great hikes in three days…Hidden Lake Overlook, St.…
Jewels of the Canadian Rockies
Our last few days in Western Canada were made even better by the arrival of our great friends Jim and Lynn. For years there have been a group of us, self-labeled the Four Seasons and who, early on in our amazing friendship, dreamed of a roadtrip to Banff. The OG, Outdoor Bob, may he rest…