Seattle: First Impressions
Seattle: First Impressions I’ve been in Seattle now for a couple of days. Here are my first impressions. Being from New England, I’m used to very old infrastructure. Seattle’s seems…
Cle Elum WA
North by Northwest
After leaving Bozeman, Montana, I continued west on I-90 headed toward Missoula. My destination for the day was Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, but I was racing a snowstorm. (Yes, you read…
Bozeman
I arrived in Bozeman in mid afternoon on a very sunny and warm day. As I approached I saw a building that read something about coffee and it was a…
Montana – the Absaroka Range
The border of Montana and Idaho crosses these mountains. As I was traveling out of Billings, I had a goal of getting to Missoula to beat a snowstorm that was…
Bismarck to Billings
I woke up early on Sunday morning. I noticed the color of the sky to the east. There was cloud cover overhead, but clear to the east-southeast. I stowed all…
Fargo to Bismarck
It was a wet and wild night in Fargo. The wind was really ripping and it rained hard all night with the occasional flash of lightning and rumble of thunder. …
The Mississippi Headwaters
As I was preparing to head out, a friend suggested that if I had time, to go check out the headwaters to the Mississippi River. Wow. That sounds like a…
Waking up next to Mississippi
On Friday morning, it was nice to wake up in a fairly quiet place. It was really nice except for the fossile fuel power plant nearby. The midwest has had…
A gorge near Mirror Lake State Park in the hills of Wisconsin.
Traveling through Wisconsin
I woke on Thursday and, being in a state park, I had to make my own coffee. Let's see where is everything. Found what I needed, but had to dig…
The bean in Millennium Park.
Headed Out to Indiana and Chicago
After heading out of the Westgate Travel Plaza, I continued along I-90 west. The sun was coming out and I was headed into weather. It was beautiful. I jumped off…