I know I should have given you a break before pummeling you with even more pictures, but I wanted to get this out before Christmas, and you can look forward to much less posting while we are in Florida. I'll keep you appraised of our projects, quite a few, and our doings, but it will most likely be weeks between posts for the winter. I can already hear the oohs and ahhs of relief:-)
Here we go for our western pics.
So after our very strange, at least to us, encounter with our neighbors in northeastern Montana that had the chicken as a pet, pampered, with its own buggy, and cuddled all the time, we made it across the wilds and mostly nothingness of the high route, Rte 2 across northern Montana and arrived in the mountains.
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| Not judging, but certainly nothing we had ever seen before |
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Our picnic on our venture into the Yaak Valley in NW MT,
to see if we could find one our favorites on "Mountain Men",
Tom Oar, no we didn't find him |
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| Pretty view along the way |
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| On our site in Missoula, where we ended up for 3 weeks |
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| We got right to fishing, Jan on the Bitteroot |
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| Me giving it a try |
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| On our Incredible float trip on the Blackfoot |
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| Me, looking like a damn fool, with our great guide, Doug |
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| Beautiful scenery along the way! |
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Our superb visit with Tom's cousin Tim
Me, Jan, Tim, Karen, and Tom, Sue took the picture
topped off with an incredibly delicious dinner of elk steaks! |
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| Getting our propane leak fixed |
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| Came across these three on our travels around the area |
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| Beautiful Rock Creek |
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| We did catch several here |
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| Jan smiling with our couple times a year, Guinesses:-) |
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| On to our beautiful spot in Ennis, MT |
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| Yeah, believe it or not, great sushi in Bozeman |
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| Pulling a fish out of the fabled Madison |
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| A moment of Jan smiling on our dismal float trip on the Madison |
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We ended up parked right next to our friends Dave and Lingky
in West Yellowstone, totally unexpected and ended up
side by side! |
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Our time in Yellowstone was impacted by an emergency repair to our slide drain hose
Jan getting started, she fit much better than I |
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| The original |
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| The leak |
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| Good as new, maybe better |
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We were able to fish in YNP many times from all sides as we
moved around the perimeter of the park |
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| Jan giving it a go |
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| Our fantastic site at Henry's Lake SP in Idaho |
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| Our sensational boondock site right on the Gallatin River |
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Checking out the river
This is the actual river that was filmed in
"A River Runs Through It" |
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| The amazing memorial church we found at Big Sky, MT |
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| Spectacular inside as well! |
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| Fog over the Yellowstone River at dawn |
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| A king surveying his kingdom |
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| Bison resting their heads on a rock:-) |
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| An elk tasting some shrubs right outside our coach |
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| Our amazing boondock site at Mammoth Campground in YNP |
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| We were plagued by many, many fires |
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Can still see the wagon tracks on the Oregon Trail
Gives you an incredible appreciation for what these folks did |
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| The leaking fitting behind the dash that almost stopped us |
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| Great site in Silt, CO, right on the Colorado |
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| Another shot near sunset |
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| Ouray, CO |
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| What views |
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| Aspens in their glory |
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| Looking down into Telluride |
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| Telluride |
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The Drought
Blue Mesa Reservoir near Gunnison lower than we have ever seen it |
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| Fall is coming |
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| Even dustings of snow |
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| Our special boondock spot near Clear Creek north of Creede |
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| Very low Clear Creek |
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| We actually went back and forth between Creede and Clear Creek a couple times |
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| Coffee spot high above Creede |
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Back enjoying our boondock spot,
yeah, getting chilly |
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| Bert agrees |
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| Hiking around Big Meadow reservoir on a blustery day |
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| It is COLD on top of LOBO Overlook, 10,856' |
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| No water left in Shaw Lake |
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More air leaks underneath, Jan looking, and with Tom's help,
we found it and were able to get it repaired |
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| William's Reservoir near Pagosa Springs on an overcast day |
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| Snow, a little early at Andrew's Lake north of Durango |
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| Aspen color trying to hang on |
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| A cool, snowy hike to Spud Lake with Purgatory in the background |
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| Molas Lake |
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| Our site in Durango |
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| Tackling the floor for the last time! |
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| Almost ready for the new floor |
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| A nice, but muddy hike along Hermosa Creek |
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Well when you find all your frozen scallops are thawing since you
accidentally unplugged the freezer, what do you do?
Make awesome scallop stew! |
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| Enjoying the view in Durango |
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One of our favorite spots for a picnic high above Durango
overlooking Trimble |
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| Lots of snow above Silverton |
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| A beautiful view over Little Molas Lake |
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| On to Taos with lots of snow! |
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| Down to Albuquerque for Jan's mom, Viv's 96th birthday! |
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| Jan picking up Christian and Faith for the Thanksgiving week |
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| Having a good time |
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A small but wonderful Thanksgiving,
Kelly, Christian, Joanne, Jason, Faith, and Jan |
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| Three generations, Jan, Kelly, and Faith |
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| Final work before the new floor |
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| Ernie getting it done! |
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| All done! The Final Floor! |
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| Bert says, get on with it! |
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| Back in Florida site for the winter |
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!!
FROM JAN AND I
