HOME for the winter

 A great summer trip is behind us now and back home to spend the winter. Here's a map of our five-month travels...

Five months. 37 Stops ! ....and many experiences, locations, and sites along the way.

Just a few of the Highlights:

• Glacial Lake Missoula
• Kayaking in Lake McDonald at Glacier National Park
• Theodore Roosevelt National Park car trip in North Dakota
• Staying at a yacht harbor in Duluth, Minnesota
• Cheese, cheese, cheese in Wisconsin!
• Iowa state capitol in Des Moines
• Custer State Park in South Dakota
• Elk in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
• Kayaking under the Grand Teton Mountains, Wyoming

Grand Tetons, Wyoming

Lake McDonald, Glacier NP, Montana

Tetons from the kayak...spectacular!

Lower Falls on the Yellowstone River

CHEESE in Wisconsin!!!

Male Elk in the Madison River, Yellowstone NP

Elk. Male, Female and young ones hunkered down in the grass upper right

Sunset in Iowa

We hope you enjoyed our journeys as much as we did. I apologize for not posting more entries along the way....we sure saw some wonderful things....maybe next trip. 

We celebrated our 30th Anniversary on this trip!

Katie keeping watch.

MONTANA !

Been tardy on posting...sorry about that.

I made the photos extra large. It messes up the Popular Posts column to the left but..hope they view okay for you.


Rather than break up Montana into several blog entries, I'm going to just post a lot of photos with captions. We've seen so many places that's it's difficult to put them all in. So, an overview....

Windmill in the Museum of the Great Northern Plains, a mostly agricultural historical museum in the very small town of Fort Benton, Montana. We stayed about 2 hours poking around.

Also in the museum are these bison (mistakenly called Buffalo) that were in the Smithsonian before being situated here. Notice how the small Bison does not look like the parents yet.

Our RV park outside of Havre (pronounced Have Her), Montana. LOTS of room around us...and some gorgeous sunsets.

Took our kayak out for a couple of hours in the local reservoir...pulled up along the shore for some lunch. The lake is like glass. 

This is just one of the houses along the side of the reservoir. The water is waaaay down because a small dam broke upstream so the water has been stopped from coming down into here. You can see how the ladder should be in the water...not that I would want to come down that ladder!

Had some terrific clouds come over us in Havre.

We put the cockpit top on to protect the kayak from the rain and Katie decided she likes it here...zzzzzz.

Bear Paw Lake for some more kayaking. Isn't this a gorgeous spot?

Bear Paw Lake from above...what scenic surrounding hills...so green this time of year.

One of our favorite birds because of it's calls. Red-breasted Blackbird (male). The female is all brown and this red you see is when they're in mating season. Trying to look their best to attractive the female. Nothing every changes.

A couple of white pelicans. They look so ungainly in the water but, when they fly, they soar and are magnificent.

Canada Geese (it's Canada Geese, not Canadian Geese). Mom up front and Dad in the back.

Our spot in Glasgow, Montana for a couple of nights. Went to an old movie house where we saw Shrek on the big screen for $2 each! 

One afternoon we went to the Busted Knuckle bar to try out the local brews. Place used to be owned by a mechanic who got tired of...you guessed it...busting his knuckles fixing cars so....why not open a brew pub? Good choice by our taste buds. Nice beers.

This is a Sears Roebuck's house. You bought it out of a catalog...remember catalogs?...then, it was shipped to you in pieces and you put it all together yourself! Hopefully with some friends and family. Pretty cool.

Inside one of the many, many rooms in this local museum in Glasgow. This happened to be full of taxidermist animals and bar paraphernalia. Sometimes these museums are too much to take in in one visit. We get overwhelmed.

When we're allowed to Katie in with us, I put here in this front-facing pouch. She loves it, as you can imaging...getting carried all over the place.

This is Montana. Personally, I never get tired of the wide open spaces. I could drive for hours like this (and usually do!) and never get bored. It's so peaceful.

Well, I hope you like this one...kinda different, but a small overview of some of our stops.

Keep in touch!

kim/katie/steve

The Magnificent Glacier National Park

Magnificent ! That's all we could say...every day when we gazed at these mountains that reached for the sky.

The sky was the perfect color. The lakes the same. We never got tired of looking at the scenery, even though we were there for 10 days. We also saw waterfalls, river rafts, lodges, snow, wind, vistas, and more mountains!

This view is from the east looking west.

This deer walked this close to Kim as she was taking photos of the flowers...
did not  even hesitate.

Tunnel going up to the summit from the east side.

The valleys were carved out by the glaciers.

Sunset on the west side

Lake McDonald on the west side

There was a bit of snow at the top still.....a bit !!??

You can find all of the photos we posted here.....

https://plus.google.com/photos/100376105788369441882/albums/5898447820758262849?authkey=CJ37_Yetwt6YQg


...too many to put in one blog. What a great place to visit. We hiked numerous trails. Hopefully, we'll put together a post of all the many flowers we photographed.