Blogs from Missoula, Montana, United States, North America

44 days away. A lot has happened since my last post. Some family stuff came up and Seth and I had to postpone our trip. Glad we did, but now the stress of the year has caught up with us and we are ready to get out and enjoy ourselves.... 22 days to just be us and live. My mother decided she wanted to come and I am glad she will be going. She has never been overseas before and I can tell she is a little nervous but I think more excited than nervous......plus, if she doesn't do it now, when will she? I started kind of trying to layout dates and places and right now the itinerary looks like this.... Oct 20th-23rd: Switzerland Oct 24th-26th: Istanbul Oct 27th-Nov 1st: Italy Nov 1st-4th: Croatia Nov ... read more

July 20 Missoula We stayed two nights in Missoula. Many of the buildings in the downtown retain their original charm.We spent the morning walking through the downtown area. In the afternoon we decided to visit Fort Missoula were some of the original buildings have been restored. Part of the exhibition was dedicated to the fort, part to the firefighters of wild land fires and the balance was to the railroad and sawmills. ... read more

Well, we have officially had our Europe Tickets for a couple days now and we are starting to get Ideas on where to go and what to do. We bought a backpacking Europe book last night! So far Istanbul looks like something we are going to have to try to do! Everyone we talk to that has been there loves it, the research we have done makes it sound unreal, and the pictures on the internet look amazing! Another idea we have is to go to Dublin for St. Patty's Day. Looking into it on Ryanair from Zurich (where we fly into). Not sure on anything yet as far as destinations or the way we are going to travel but we have three months to figure it out I guess! One thing for sure.....We are soooo ... read more

Yesterday was such a fun day for us and now we were all rested up for our big drive today. We both just love doing adventurous stuff like that especially since we're getting older and we're not sure how much longer these old bodies will hold up. I guess we figure we better get it done now just in case. After we got our showers, ate breakfast and filled up with gas it was time to head on over to Missoula, Montana. Yep, I said Montana !! We've been from Oregon to Idaho to Washington and now we were headed to Montana. It's always an adventure around here and we're always off in search of something new to discover. We hit the road with happy faces and open eyes. After having the cow run out in ... read more

We spent a lazy morning enjoying fresh trout for breakfast. Then we drove into Missoula to fill prescriptions at Wlagreen's and to eat lunch at, oh boy, the Cracker Barrel. Rich found another scenic drive through the Blackfoot Valley, following the Lewis and Clark trail again. we stopped in a tiny town at a fly shop and Rich bought three of the popular flies of the day. We reached a National Forest campground and set up. It is a secluded place with only a few sites. Every window we looked out was gorgeous. We gathered up fishing gear and set off down the creek that ran right through the campground. We strolled along for a couple of hours and then made our way back. rich didn't catch anything on the new flies, but he wure found ... read more

We left at about 8am. Not quite the 6am start I joked about, but not a bad start at all. We drove down Hwy 33 through Rock Creek and then through Grand Forks, then Hwy 395 to the border crossing. Not far from the border we stopped for lunch at Colville, where we saw a giant "C" on the hillside, with a giant cross as well. Once through Spokane we started journeying East on the I-90. Along the way was a giant "M" on a hillside (was it Millwood? I think so.). So we started a Giant hillside-letter Scrabble game. We really needed a vowel. Continuing on we started through the mountain passes. Wallace looks like quite an interesting historical town, but we didn't stop. Out of the mountains and nearing our destination, we passed through ... read more

Congrats to everyone for finding this blog! My plane leaves in about 6 hours and I've just finished packing. As I type this my mother is baking me a farewell pumpkin pie, which will help me survive the next 3 days of planes and hotels before I find myself in Mombasa, Kenya (thank you mom!). Please let everyone you think would be interested know about this blog and I'll try to update it as often as I can. My time for sending out invites is a little crunched, thanks. Now for pie and bed, enjoy the snow everyone in Missoula! Tor... read more

Missoula We traveled from Seattle to Missoula, looooooong drive. Washington is like the prairies, goes on forever. We stopped in Ellensburg, went shopping at the Goodwill LOL We are living LARGE lol Natalie found some brand new underwear still in the plastic lol showed them to me and I bought a couple too lol She was tickled to have found them, we went there to find some bowls so we could have brekky in the rooms lol getting into the swing of traveling :) Also we had our usual Saturday in Missoula. We found an Ihop, it was great! dare I say it, better than Langley Ihop, and cheaper too, unlike the Ihop in Seattle found at 10th and Broadway or Broadway and Madison. The service was poor and the coffee was weak, and we ... read more

We just spent 2 1/2 days enjoying the Lodge at Whitefish Lake and this morning and afternoon a drive through Glacier Nat'l Park. When we left the Runamuk in Roundup a few days ago we went to Helena and then to Whitefish and Kalispell. (Way too crowded and expensive and UN-Montana-ish...first time in weeks I had seen traffic, liberal wackos, rude people, and malls)....no wonder the Montana folks call it Kalispell-angeles----very sad! Tonight we're in the Bitterroot Valley and yes, we had to drive by Huey Lewis' ranch for fun---why not? Tomorrow on to Idaho and then home!... read more