Kandahar Lodge At Whitefish Mountain Resort

This is a really weird feeling, leaving home for a five month adventure. We do a lot of traveling, but never one of this length. It's required an humongous amount of planning and while we've tried to think of all contingencies, we know that's not even possible.
And that's OK--part of the seat-of-your-pants traveling we're best at.
We ...

... www.innaartwork.com/blog/yellows tone-national-park-summer-2009/ and http://www.innaartwork.com/blog/glacier -national-park-summer-2009/ ).

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Regards,

Inna Lazarev,
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... dogs on (verbal) leashes in the woods -- National Parks do not. It dropped below freezing the first night and snow magically appeared on the higher mountains the next day.

Then horror, while we were packing Bogie cried/yelped while chasing a squirrel up a tree and came back to us on three legs. We were lucky finding a good vet that said he likely had a bad sprain on his right front leg (up to two weeks of being a gimp - if ...

Kalispell is actually starting to feel like home away from home! The mechanic ran into delays, truck won't be ready till Wednesday, so we are catching up with laundry, grocery shopping, haircuts, and resting. Wondering what we'll find when we open up the trailer after this long week. Need to get re-organized before we head west again.

... us a loaner, we will leave the camper at the dealership for the week and we will head towards Canada in this red Corolla. Drive through Banff and Jasper? Try to find V's distant cousin that we've been wanting to meet for over 25 years? Looking on the map, they live waaayy up north in British Columbia. What the heck! Maybe we'll just go for it!

... And collectively Jen and I looked pretty pathetic, standing over our fire while it rained. And it’s cold….gross. Right now I’m dressed in khaki pants, 3 shirts, and a hoodie..AND under a full set of blankets and I’m still cold. The rain is hitting our tent pretty consistently and you can see your breath because of the high humidity and temperature outside. It’s miserable.

Regardless of the weather Glacier National has been incredible.

... vast mountains and snow covered peaks were everywhere. I didn't have to look for a pull out, just stop in the middle of the road and take a picture. I made it to “The Loop,” a hairpin turn that brings the road above the tree line, and continued another half mile where I could see the whole valley. I was surrounded by mountain peaks and could see the road carved out of granite cliffs going on up to Logan summit. I had been gone over an hour ...

Day 81 Washington - Idaho - Montana Gee the Castle managed to be in three States in one day, How good is that? No we were not "Racing across" it simply worked out that way. We chose a route to take us to the Montana National Park Glacier, this takes us across the border of Washington State to the top end of Idaho then on to Montana. The roads a very good in comparison to the tougher challenges we faced up in the Yukon/Alaska regions ...

while in whitefish, we had our first big scheduling snafu. for days beforehand, we had been trying to glean any information on the road to the sun in glacier national park by calling status hotlines, checking transportation department websites, and talking to other bikers. the road to the sun is the main attraction in the park, and it ascends up the mountains through logan pass where it takes you over the continental divide. it's supposed to be ...

... his family, and mine. He and Andrew hit it off, I sign the form (you know, liability and such) and Lesson 1 is How to Mount. Ride around inside the fence to get the feel of it. And then they're gone, easy horses walking down the drive, and towards the trailhead in the woods. I look around, chat with all the horses there, and all the dogs. Cabins to rent, near the ranchhouse and further in ...