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Month: August 2016

Going-To-The-Sun

Going-To-The-Sun

At the northern end of the Rocky Mountains in the United States, near where the state of Montana borders the Canadian province of Alberta, lies Glacier National Park.  In Glacier is reportedly one of the most beautiful mountain roads anywhere in the world, Going-to-the-Sun Road, or simply the Sun Road, as the locals seem to call it.  Since I’ve become a seeker after natural beauty on this trip, this is someplace I wanted to see. It’s not a short drive…

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Bones and Brews in Beautiful Bozeman

Bones and Brews in Beautiful Bozeman

Maybe I’m odd.  But some of the places I’ve enjoyed most on this trip are the ones I’ve come across accidentally, the ones that I had no expectations of, that weren’t even on my radar at the start.  That oddness seems to have made me find Mount Rushmore simply adequate, and to blow through Yellowstone in a day because there were too many people, but spend two days in Bozeman, Montana because I really liked the people.  Go figure.  Odd. I…

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Yellowstone National Park (Alternatively: How Faithful is Old Faithful?)

Yellowstone National Park (Alternatively: How Faithful is Old Faithful?)

I had made the conscious decision to spend only one day seeing the sites of Yellowstone, mainly because of the number of people, but I clearly could have spent much more time there.  All camp sites were booked out, so I wasn’t going to be able to stay in the park overnight either, although if I had booked ahead, I think I would have liked spending a week there and getting to some of the more remote locations.   I left Cody…

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The Cody ‘Nite’ Rodeo

The Cody ‘Nite’ Rodeo

Another big bucket list kind of place that I wanted to visit on this trip was Yellowstone National Park, in western Wyoming.  It was getting late in the day on my drive there when I approached Cody, WY, so I decided to spend the night there and start into Yellowstone in the morning.  But what do you do in the evening when you’re in Cody?  That’s Cody, as in Buffalo Bill Cody, and this is apparently where he had his wild…

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