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See Park Video We returned this morning to Little Big Horn for the ranger talk on Last Stand Hill, to remember the soldiers and warriors who fell here in defense of what they believed was right, to visit the Indian Memorial and to ponder the prospect of unity through...
The days here are brutally hot and the nights tend toward chilly but the temperature in the evening is perfect. We enjoyed conversation with neighbors and then decided It would be a good time for a walk. As we cruised the perimeter of this KOA, we realized that it was...
As he was showing us to our campsite, Robert, one of our hosts volunteered a restaurant recommendation. He suggested Three Brothers Bistro and if we like dark beer to get the Pig's Ass Porter. We took him up on it. Not just dinner last night but for lunch today....
In 1868 the US signed the Laramie Treaty with the Lakota and other tribes ceding reservation lands and creating unceded territory for the use of the nomadic tribes for hunting. In 1873 the US experienced a severe recession. In 1874 gold was discovered in the Black...
We returned to the Lewis & Clark Center in Great Falls this morning. Enjoyed the talk on the kinds of boats they used and tried pulling a keelboat ourselves. Saw some of the five sets of falls that they portaged around then more or less followed the Missouri to...
By sunrise we were the first in line waiting for the service department to open at City Motors Chevrolet in Great Falls. We've logged about 4,700 miles so far so figured routine service might be in order also wanted the A/C repaired. While we waited we had breakfast...
After a morning and a picnic lunch in Glacier we headed north just ten miles to the border, saw Canada in the distance, then turned the car around and headed south on US 89 through the Big Sky Country of Montana. We scanned the FM radio dial and listened to a country...
See Park Video It was another gloriously beautiful day. Our adventures began right away this morning at the St Mary Visitor's Center when one of the rangers spotted a pair of elk. It's rutting season and he was definitely in pursuit of her favors! We drove the eastern...
We started our day at the Big Sky Motel in Wolf Point in northeastern Montana then spent the day traveling due west along US 2, once known as the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway which ran from Portland,Maine to Portland, Oregon. It runs parallel to the train...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
London’s Imperial War Museum in Southwark founded even as the First World War raged offers insights into the myriad costs of the wars of the 20th and 21st Centuries. It was a most disquieting but valuable reminder of the myriad costs of war.