A year ago today was the last time I got on an airplane; I was flying back to the Twin Cities from Bozeman, MT following a couple of days skiing at Big Sky and a couple of days exploring Yellowstone National Park in the winter. While the coronavirus was just beginning to filter into our […]
Random Observations on Traveling During a Pandemic
Last month I and a friend ventured out for a road trip to see the sister national parks of Yellowstone and Grand Teton. After being hunkered down for months on end, we needed to do something to fend of stir craziness! We drove 2980 miles in 7 days, and loved every minute of it. I […]
Sister Parks
Sometimes two sisters in the same family can be quite different. That certainly is the case with my sister and me! The same can be said of the two sister national parks of Wyoming, Yellowstone and Grand Teton. Always together, bordering each other, they are so very very different. The largest of the two, Yellowstone […]
Protein Product on a Stick
Eating on a road trip in the era of Covid provides its own level of adventure. Fast food drive-through is always an option, and I must admit we’ve done that once when we were speeding across Wyoming on Saturday. Fortunately we’ve had great weather so have been able to eat outside at local eateries, one […]
Driving the Beartooth Highway
I’ve driven a lot of the great scenic highways in North America, but somehow the Beartooth Highway, between Red Lodge, Montana and the NE entrance to Yellowstone National Park had eluded me. Until Sunday, that is. Let me just say that, despite the smoke that was beginning to waft in from California, the highway did […]
Road Trip
My last trip anywhere was in February to ski in Montana. Then COVID hit, and like so many others I was grounded, so to speak. I think this past six months has been the longest stretch I have gone without traveling since college. Maybe even high school! Thankfully, that stretch has now ended. A few […]
