Blogs from Bozeman, Montana, United States, North America - page 8

I kind of feel bad about writing about this hike a month after it occured, but this semester has been quite hectic and busy. This was just a hike up to the top of Hylite mountain around the time of the very large Derby Fire which has burnt over 190000 acres (yep that's four zeros) here in Montana. One thing I will say about this hike is the amount of Waterfalls coming off this mountain were amazing. One in particular was awesome, it must have been over 150 feet of water flowing down the mountain and at the top there was this little cave filled with moss. We ended up stoping and having a brunchy/lunch thing by Hylite "lake" (a very large mud puddle). It was a sweet day hike, and only a hop, skip and ... read more

Greetings all. It's just about time for take off. About one month and counting. That may seem like a long time for you, but M and I are a sure it will be a milli-second compared to the amount of time we have had to wait already. Anyhow, we are in full motion now and gaining speed. There so many more things we have had to think about / deal with then I had ever imagined. Just crazy business. So we have had a stressful summer here in Bozeman, MT... Lot's of traffic on the way to the river, never enough time to hike all those mountains, and that boss of ours is always puttin' on the pressure. Au Contraire. We've really been working hard on preparing ourselves for the upcoming stress-free, carefree lifesyle. Looking back ... read more

Arrived in Bozeman after a small journey of 24 hours ish, on a coach with some of the world's strangest people. Lets just say we don't want to talk about it. Bozeman is a city in the north of the rocky mountains, it seems to be more of a ski town and with temperatures in the 90's there is no snow so the place seems fairly quiet, despite its status as a gateway town to Yellowstone Park. Staying in another hostel that feels like somebodies house but is one of the better home hostels we have seen, although it doesn't pass claire's cleaning standards, not that anywhere else has. Bozeman is really friendly, we went for a walk and there were several cars that went past with men leaning out of the window shouting "yehaa" and ... read more

Mom and Dad Shorty came out to Montana for a wild and roaring good time on July 18th-28th. Little did they know what kind of adventure they were getting themselves into! The day they rolled into town I was sitting on my neighbors porch discussing the repercussions of some construction worker who had just poured petrol-chemicals onto our street and hoping they would get washed down the drainage system of Bozeman, ahh the excitement had begun. I introduced my parents to my neighbors and took them out to eat at Old Chicago, a quaint little chain restaurant that perhaps some of you have heard of. The unfortunate part of this whole vacation of theirs is that I had to work (both teaching and at the Meat Shoppe -a local butcher/delicatessen here in town) and I would ... read more

July 8, 2006 Living in chaos...that has been the theme the last month or so of our lives. During June I traveled 2 of the 4 weeks for work. I had a great time in Memphis for the St. Jude Children's research Hospital training. I advise a student group that raises funds for St. Jude and we were privilaged to go to the Collegiate Leadership seminar the first weekend of June. Mom and Dad came and joined me for a day in Memphis, we ate some yummy ribs, drank sweet tea and walked around Memphis, enjoying the sights and sounds. While I didn't get any pictures with Momma and Dadaw (space cadeted those), I got some great ones at the hospital. It's such a wonderful place and such a great cause to fight for. You can ... read more