Retirement
Hi, Vermillion, South Dakota is home to the University of South Dakota, and to the American Music Museum. If Murdo was an improbable repository on the Dakota Plain for 250 rare and collectable automobiles, Vermillion is an equally unlikely place to house 15,000 rare musical instruments collected from around the world. The instruments are from […]
Hi, Perhaps you’re partial to South Dakota although, other than the Badlands, I can’t imagine why. I think it says something when the most attractive aspect of an entire state is named “Bad Land.” If you lived here the very first thing you would do is move to somewhere else. The wind has been relentless […]
Hi, Well, let’s give it up for the Traveling Companion. Hip-Hip Hoorah! We prowled the ghost town of Nevada City yesterday and then meandered over to West Yellowstone, MT enroute to the Bear Tooth scenic highway–only to discover that a piece of the highway is closed due to construction. It was better to figure this […]
Hi, We finally stopped into a KOA campground last night, and were happy to do so as dusk approached. It’s sort of a lovely parking lot with all of the facilities, much the way I’d imagined. The night sky in the Middle of Nowhere, MT is quite something to see. The Traveling Companion, who has […]
Hi, We’ve been basking in hot springs, sleeping in a campground 25 miles off the pavement on an old logging road, lunching in a neighborhood park in Kalispell, riffing about electromagnetic anomalies with the proprietor of the Montana House of Mystery vortex and then cruising the margins of Flathead lake; Montana is pretty swell, even […]