Ho, hard foa catch up! Especially since we went on another road trip to Montana. I figure that I’ve got at least a year of road trip photos to share. Hold on for the ride… unless it’s too boring. Then come back anyway, because I’ll write about other stuff too. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m trying to unpack, catch up on work and get used to the time change. However, I would like to gleefully report that males in Montana and Idaho thankfully DO NOT wear their jeans down to below their butts. What a relief! They looked so normal! Not once did I see some guy’s boxers as he leaned over or watch anyone trying to run while trying to hold their jeans up with their knees. What a relief.
No pants on the ground for a whole 10 days! Bliss! Then today at the gas station, there they were again. The attendant’s belt was down below his butt. Take me back to Montana. Please!
We’re back home after a fabulous visit with Cousins. Was coming home from da post office pau pick up all our mostly junk mail, and there in the road by our house were five goats wandering around! Wassap wit dat?
So I saw the neighbor was home and knocked on his door (actually, he’s the owner of the vacant rental house and just happened to be there). “Eh, did you know your goats are out on the road?”
Nope, he didn’t. Five of them out there, wandering along the road. So between the two of us we got the goats back in the pasture, which is full of new, yummy grass to much on.
The neighbor said to me, after thanking me for my help, “As if they don’t have enough to eat in here!”
He was fixing the fence as I left.
I stay Montana!! Yep, again. We’ve been here for a week with Cousins and Auntie in Bozeman. Heading home tomorrow. It’s been a fabulous visit again, and oh, how I love Bozeman! We took a wonderful drive up through the Bridger Mountains the other day… be still my heart! The beauty was out of this world!
So after the Mystery Road Trip Revealed stay pau, if you want, you folks can join me on another Montana advencha!
Mahalo to Julie who’s taking care of stuff at home for us so that we could make this trip.
I’m so excited! Sometimes Nolemana gives me a hard time for wanting to take so many photos, but because I do, I’m now an official honorary Japanese. I was one before because of my hānai sistah Kikue, but never had the official title. Now I do, thanks to her and AFK! Chee hoo!
You might have already guessed this, probably did, all you akamai readers, that we wanted to see Old Faithful Geyser as long as we were so close. My good friend Linda had suggested that we take the time to zip over there from Bozeman, and that’s exactly what we decided to do. She’d told me that it wasn’t to be missed, because who knew when we’d be able to be in the area again? As I said before, I was so grateful for her suggestion, because we wouldn’t have missed this trip for anything!
This is the sign for the Norris Canyon area:
I’m back from the beach; it was a wonderful weekend with my friends. Now I have to get the next batch of road trip photos edited and uploaded, so while you’re waiting, you catch watch a video I took over the weekend. If you hunger for the ocean like me, this might help. Sorry for the jerkiness at the end; it was COLD outside!
Da bloggie going be on break till next week Tuesday cuz I stay going da beach with my Gathering friends and nomo wireless at da hale wea we going stay.
So while I stay gone, try read some of da older posts foa fun. Like da Pumpernickel Valley one. Good fun. Oa dis one from anodda holoholo ka‘a to Rainier, OR. Get Parts 1-3.
Oa jass take nappie. See u folks when I get back!
Thanks to Molly (from the last post) I figured out that I could make a GoogleMap showing where we’ve been as a non-aerial map (though I still like those too). This is how far we’ve come so far if I’ve done it right. Give it a second to load.
View Montana Road Trip, October 2009 in a larger map
Chee hoo! That worked! Though you have to zoom out to see the whole thing. You can also hold down your mouse key and view from side to side, or zoom in to get up close. You can also look at the aerial or terrain view! The terrain view is really interesting. Mahalo Molly and Google! Read the rest of this entry »
We were just about to enter Yellowstone! This shot of Gardiner is around the corner from the main street we’d come in on. In the middle of the left-hand side, you can see the corner of something spectacular.
Up from the mirey clay of Mokihana’s brain we go. Heh heh. You know, when I’m doing a road trip advencha I tend to be more, you know, more practical. Here we are, there we were, etc. How boring. I’ll try to interject some incredibly creative comments along the way. If can, can; if no can, no can, yeah? Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve uploaded all the photos for the next installment of Da Mystery Road Trip Revealed, and while I’m attempting to write a brilliant, funny, and incredibly awesome post, I thought I’d tempt all you locals with something. Read the rest of this entry »
K’den…. here’s another cute springtime lambies photo to watch while you’re waiting for the next installment. Read the rest of this entry »
Okay den, gangeez, this episode starts one major advencha for the White ‘ohana! U like know hakum? Well, I’m gonna show you in a minute. But first I need to say that we almost couldn’t go because of all the snow that had come in overnight, which would’ve been major disappointing. But Cousins checked road conditions for us and saw that the roads were clear, so here we go! Read the rest of this entry »
I’m trying hard to get the next road trip installment done; we’ve been so busy lately that it’s been hard to find the time to organize, resize, and upload all the photos. Read the rest of this entry »
Last night about 6 p.m. Nolemana called me from my office (where I was oblivious to the view from the deck… because I can’t see it from there not because I wasn’t paying attention!) to see what was going on. It was a terrible fire. Read the rest of this entry »
Yes! Grizzly bears nearby. But Nolemana and I had no time to see them, and really, did I want to see a caged one? Nope. So we continued on our way, still heading east. Gotta say that cuz get mauka all around us!
After having lunch with Auntie, Nolemana and I headed back into town to buy a pair of much-needed new windshield wipers. No way I was gonna have a repeat of the night before!
Okay, remember the fabulous lodge-like great room of Auntie’s place? Today we’re gonna see more of it.
The Knitting Olympics/Ravelympics are pau. Before I started, I had set a very challenging goal for myself, namely to enter the “WIP Dancing” (Work-in-Progress) event, and finish up two blankets that had been languishing for years, as well as a shawl that I’d started right after my mom died but had never finished.
We couldn’t start till Opening Ceremonies. We had to be pau by Closing Ceremonies.
I am pleased to announce that I did it! I reached my goal! Here is one of my medals. (Bob, the dog, is the Ravelry mascot.)
After leaving Helena, we were back on the road with the big sky all around us. I thought of John Denver’s “Wild Montana Sky” duet with Emmy Lou Harris. I was loving every minute of this trip; it was such an adventure for a born and raised island girl. This is Highway 12 south, just north of Clasoil at Pioneer Fuel and Concrete.
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