Category Archives: Travel

Well, yesterday turned out to be good news and bad news. We got up about 0700 and after coffee and breakfast finished breaking camp and hitching up the rig and headed out shortly after 0930. After a quick stop for … Continue reading →

Today turned out to be a pretty good day. We woke up to a partly cloudy sky but by 1000 or so it had cleared up and looked pretty nice; so after breakfast and coffee we headed out to our … Continue reading →

Today dawned as a really beautiful day; brilliant blue sky, a few scattered clouds and really pleasant temps in the upper 50’s when we left about 1030 for our field trip to the Clifford E Lee Nature Sanctuary nearby run … Continue reading →

Well, we’ve safely arrived in Acheson, Alberta (outside of Edmonton) after a two day drive up from Great Falls. Yesterday was a nice drive; it was actually pretty easy getting across the border in stark contrast to our previous trips … Continue reading →

Sunday was going to be the only nice day while we are here in Great Falls; so after Mass we changed clothes and headed out for a day trip to Glacier National Park. We had previously visited this park a … Continue reading →

Well; we safely arrived at the Malmstrom AFB Fam Camp here in Great Falls after a 3 day travel period of 840.5 miles. I guess we coulda made it in 2 days if we needed to but we didn’t so … Continue reading →

You know how down South the locals will sometimes give you directions that sound something like “Go down to the oak tree and turn left and then take a right at the big rock.”? Well, I can report that they … Continue reading →

Today was supposed to be a rainy sort of day so we headed off after breakfast to our first stop of the day; the Molly Kitchen Gold Mine in nearby (well, 40 miles away nearby) Cripple Creek, Colorado. Our first … Continue reading →

Today we headed off to 0830 Mass then stopped by Denny’s on the way home for brunch. After that we waited a bit until Connie’s tummy issues had settled down a bit then headed off about 10 miles south to … Continue reading →

I can report that as I write this the temp is in the 60s and it’s a pretty nice evening here at the Air Force Academy. About 12 miles away as the crow flies it’s snowing on top of Pikes … Continue reading →