We were gone a month. We put 3600 miles on the truck. The rhythm and routine of our style of travel settled into our bones. It was easy to wait for the sun in the early morning and a joy to sit out in the night with the stars above. Quiet mixed with the sound of a river or the wind in the trees completed our days.
It will take me a bit to work through the hundreds of photos and write a few lines of narrative. Be patient. I'll get it done.
Here are a few tidbits to hold you over until.....................
"Why are you doing it that way?" Dawn, the hardest working woman in Montana asked me. It was obvious she was amused with what she saw as stupidity.
"You need a T post jack," she explained. "I make 'em. Weld them up myself back at my place. But," she added, "You can take a chain and make several wraps right at the ground and pull 'em out with the loader on that cute little tractor."
"I have never seen a cast iron skillet so high in the sky in my life!" Four or five people stopped us to make that comment on a beautiful Sunday afternoon at the Daly Mansion.
"Oh, that's a little one. We don't need the camera for that one. I'll just bring the ghost net," the Lady said after I announced, once again, "Fish on!"
I brought the vividly colored cutthroat to her waiting net. I removed the fly and the Lady joyfully returned the trout to its watery fold.
"So," I asked as we watched in awe as the marvelous wild creature swam away. "A fourteen inch trout is now a 'little one'?"
After stopping at "the phone booth", Ted and Donna announced, "There's a carcass in Hayden!"
The Lady stopped dead in her tracks in the trail in front of me after the deep grunt, out of sight right ahead of us in the thicket of small lodgepole pines. "Bison or grizzly?" she quickly asked.
All parts are now completed -
Back to Montana! - August 2018
Kelly Creek, Idaho - August 2018
The High Lakes, Idaho - August 2018
Lemhi Pass, Idaho & Montana - September 2018
Bannack, Montana - September 2018
Yellowstone National Park - September 2018 - Part One
Yellowstone National Park - September 2018 - Part Two
Yellowstone National Park - September 2018 - Part Three
The Tetons, Gros Ventres, and Uintas - September 2018
Edited by ski3pin, 26 October 2018 - 04:32 PM.
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