(English version on the bottom) Unsere Lieben Wieder ist eine Woche vergangen und uns geht es nach wie vor ausgezeichnet. Ich sitze auf einer kleinen Terrasse eines Retaurants und schreibe den neuen Bericht währen Maja nebenan im Laundromat unsere Kleider wäscht. Sehr traditionelle Arbeitsteilung, nicht wahr? Wir sind in Bozeman, einer relativ kleinen Stadt und werden heute noch zum Yellowstone National Park fahren. Wir sind natürlich gespannt, was wir dort erleben werden. Nach dem Waterton NP sind wir ohne grosse Formalitäten über die Grenze in die USA eingereist und in den Glacier [View Full Entry]

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Popcorn This is called popcorn. It grows on the walls of the cavern and is formed by the water pushing through the walls slowly and become what is seen here. It is better than a 1/4 mile up hill walk just to get to the entrance of the caves. The tour is so worth it though. My friend who went with me on the trip has rods in her back that are ready to be replaced - so it was not easy for her. It took us a while to get to the cave and then she held onto my shoulders [View Full Entry]

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Welcome to the first edition of the Paulsen travels in the summer of 2009. I am a little slow getting started with the blog this year so will do some catchup with this first message. Our summer travels started in May when we traveled to Zihuatanejo, Mexico for our son Neil's wedding. Had a great 10 days of lying on the beach, enjoying the wonderful food and a beautiful wedding celebration. We came home and spent a hectic two weeks finishing up work items and getting ready for our summer trip to Montana and Washington. We loaded the camper and left [View Full Entry]

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hey...stacey's first entry...i will not be afraid of my new techno toy...well its official rae's a bitch...she drove two days just because she enjoys it so much...but this morning as we are both pretty well wrecked from late night uno playing and drinking, she decides to play her driving card...so i spent the first four hours of my day driving switch backs and fighting the urge to puke while rae slept in the back of the van...we had a great mexican lunch in bozeman, MT...it was a tasty treat and it appeared to be a great little town...as rae mentioned they [View Full Entry]

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Spent another day in the very nice Glacier Park. Drove to the Saint Mary's Visitor's Center and took the shuttle up to the Logan's Pass Visitor's Center. Walked the trail up to Hidden Lake, which is probably the one you are thinking of, mom. Had to trudge my way through the snow for probably 3/4 of the way, and I did see some mountain goats when I got near the lake overview. Took the shuttle back down to the Saint Mary's Falls trailhead and walked to Saint Mary's Falls and Virginia Falls. Got a little wet from some rain, but not [View Full Entry]

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Drove in to East Glacier from Spokane today. Drove in on the Going-to-the-Sun Road, which was spectacular. Lakes, trees, mountains, islands, waterfalls, the weeping rock. Forgot that I lost an hour, so I didn't have a lot of time to explore today. The hostel is near the Two Medicine Lakes area, and I was able to walk a couple of trails around there to a couple of waterfalls. Planning on driving my car up to the shuttle area for the Going-to-the-Sun Road tomorrow to walk some more trails. [View Full Entry]

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On the Stillwater Nye, MT is on the Stillwater River. It is a good ride in a canoe. There are a few bends in the river that take some skill to get around. I have dumped the canoe once - but that is because the guy in the bow leaned like he was on a motorcycle instead of in a canoe as we went around the corner. It was May - so the water was ice cold. My folks have a cabin up there so I have spent a fair amount of time in the area. There are great trails for [View Full Entry]

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Heute ging es gleich nach dem Frühstück los wieder in den Glacier National Park. Wir sind auch gut und schnell bis in den Park gekommen, an der Schlange der Autos die noch EIntritt bezahlen mussten gleich vorbeigekommen und wollten heute eine andere Straße nach Norden nehmen (Inside North Folk Road). Diese führt zu 3 Seen und zur kanadischen Grenze. Die ersten ca. 15 km fuhr es sich auch wunderbar, zwar durch vom großen Waldbrand am 23.07.2003 sehr geprägte Gegend, aber dann endete diese Teerstraße und wurde zum Schotterweg. Nach ca. 2 km bei 20 km/h, vollkommen durchgeschüttelt und mit einer [View Full Entry]

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Irgendwie waren wir heute nicht so früh aufgestanden, erst gegen 8:30 Uhr und als ich dann ins Bad konnte war es schon 10 vor 9 und da kam aufeinmal der Ruf "Hilfe es gibt nur bis 9:00 Uhr Frühstück", also sind die Damen fast sofort losgegangen und ich kam dann hinterher. Das Frühstück war richtig amerikanisches Hotelfrühstück: viele Leute wenig Platz, als Angebot 4 Sorten Cornflakes, Joghurt, mehrere Sorten Toastbrot, und ein kleines Muffin - Waffelangebot. Dazu Erdnussbutter und Marmelade. Zu Trinken gab es Orangen- und Apfelsaft, sowie Tee, Kaffee und Kakao. Und das alles aus Wegwerfgeschi [View Full Entry]

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Montana is coming to an end. We have all had such a lovely time up here in the boondocks and it seems longer than a week as time moves by very slowly in the woods and the sun finally sets near 10pm. The drive out here was long, but we did not want to drive much at night to stay safe and we switched, Ken and I, so that nobody would be too tired. Saturday evening we arrived to my dads house in Utah to stay the night, it was a nice but short visit as we left Sunday about 11am [View Full Entry]

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