Ending in Detroit

Friday, September 18, 2015

Fish Porn

Nice pictures of BIG fish

It was SO big and heavy that I was straining to hold it up!
A Rainbow

Another Rainbow ....
There were more, but I must limit this porn to only 2 photos

Sunday, September 13, 2015

roadside -- back roads of Montana

A couple of different fields

So the BIG question is round bales or square bales!?

MASSIVE field of sunflowers.
Tons of them ... all wanting to face the sun

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Throughout the past few years we have often splurged and hired a fishing guide. They are expensive - around $500 for the day. So our general plan is not to hire them too often. Otherwise we would go broke and live in Campgrounds for the entire summer!

Anyway, we met up with Eric Paulson in Livingston MT and set off with him for a day on the Yellowstone River.

Heading out -- the drift boat with Alicia very happy to be heading out.

Alicia getting personal instruction from Eric ...
Eric's saying "See the fish?"

"Do you see them?"

SUCCESS -- a bent rod -- lesson complete!

A happy angler! 16" rainbow

Then another -- brown this time

Later, Kevin lands the big one of the day .. a brown trout (about 18")

Thursday, September 10, 2015

The Luxury part of the trip

We are now done with the camping portion of the trip (56 days) and are entering into the "luxury" portion ...... as described by Alicia.

I kind of think that we have had a lot of luxury, starting with our incredibly comfortable tent bed! and then moving into housesits in Driggs and Jackson.....
But the night time temps are in the low 30's so, moving indoors while at elevation is a bit of luxury

The first bit of our remaining stay will be at a AirBnB in Bozeman

For a full tour see --- https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/3143557?s=ENfy#host-profile
Not to shabby!

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

who reads this?

We kept driving by this sign, wondering who it is intended for?

Can cows read? Well, Elsie, we can't eat there!

Or is it for upscale urbanites, who are used to noshing at the local bistro? Wilderness Bistro

Or for the local ranchers... but the area has no local ranchers or local cows -- at least we didn't see any

Friday, September 4, 2015

What we did on our 43rd Wedding Anniversary --- Keyser Brown

So, some information was previously published in the Major Announcement post. This post is the more detailed commentary on how we spent the 43rd. It is a little late as the actual date was August 25-26.

We went on a hike --- about 7 miles into the Beartooth Wilderness

We visited lakes and streams

We arrived at our destination -- Keyser Brown Lake

We chilled a box of wine

Went Fishing

Enjoyed the beach

Did some more fishing -- it was a catch-fest! Lots of fish wanted to play

Needed to get farther out into the lake so dipped toesies in (Man was it COLD! )

Sat in the backyard and enjoyed the views and a glass of wine

Settled in with a roaring fire

Arose the next day and exited the campsite

Taking a last look back at Keyser Brown

Ending the adventure at the parking lot -- with a sprained wrist.

That led to this -- on advise of a couple of ortho docs -- they suggested that Alicia really have her wrist Xrayed and looked at -- for fear of a broken Scaphoid bone. MRI showed no break, so everyone was happy.

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Hike to Fish --- Upper Basin Lake

We are in the "lowlands" of the Beartooths. We dropped from 9700' to 5500' at Red Lodge to avoid "bad" weather that was predicted. Well the bad weather did arrive, and it was very windy and pretty cold in Red Lodge --- we decided our choice to move was a good one, as it was likely in the 20's and could be snowing (for real) at 9700'.

A nice choice was to wait it out, which we did at Honey's, an espresso bar and "computer lounge" in Red Lodge. Then made a plan to do something -- a modest hike! 4 miles in and 2000" of elevation gain.

The results

a small waterfall along the way