We climbed into the car this morning at 7:45 and 50 degrees, with partly sunny skies and headed for the border. As we drove north, we were surrounded by mountains on three sides, the east, the north and the west. The ridge on the east was couched in a purple haze, as the sun shone from behind and the one in the north had clouds hugging tightly along the peaks. And as we left Kalispel, we discovered that it had grown exponentially since our last visit two years...

When we planned this trip, the first thing on our agenda was to go back to Glacier National Park, because the last time we were there, the Going To The Sun Road was closed at Avalanche Pass. We had planned to drive from the west entry to the east exit on that road. So, our the plan for this trip, was to try again, only this time we were to going drive from east to west. This morning, when we were preparing to leave for that park, Fox News was reporting that f...

Today was a long day of driving with nothing on our agenda but getting to Shelby, Montana. It began at 8 AM and 73 degrees, and the temperatures quickly rose to 81 and stayed there all day long. Today we drove through miles and miles of prairie. I struggled to find something, anything, that would inspire me to take photos, because in the prairie, there is little that provides a focal point to make a photo interesting. It is just a lot of flat land that goes ...

This was pretty much going to be a travel day, but we did find a few surprises. The day began at 8:20 AM and 73 degrees under fair skies, although by the end of the day it did reach 97 degrees. Yes, 97 degrees in the northern part of North Dakota. I don't think it was that warm in Florida today. The word for the day is FLAT. The land was so flat it was big sky country, even though we were in North Dakota not Montana. We could see for miles and miles in e...

Today we had an interesting day, crossing Wisconsin and Minnesota, and landing in Fargo, ND. The day began at 7:55 and 70 degrees with overcast skies. And it wasn't long before the rains came. The skies were threatening and it was clear we had a front passing through. At one point, in addition to the rain, we had a heavy black header with a white stripe below it, a patch of blue peeking through and crooked fingers of gray rising from below like many smo...