Wingate Inn Missoula

... br>Oct.14- arrive 6:45am in Reykjavik. Store luggage until check in @ HI, rent a bike and see city<br>Maybe rent a car and jet north to see A.B if it's not cloudy?<br>Oct.15- Head southwest towards Hofn, explore around Vatnajökull and Skaftafell enroute<br>Oct.16- Southern Iceland, Skógafoss, beaches of Vik <br>Oct.17- Caving in Laufbalavatnshellar lava tubes in ...

... flow. However, I didn't see the captive audience thing in the car coming. She's only covered thru 1984 in her file of things I haven't listened to since 1971. Also, Mrs. Congeniality has caused us to meet way too many nice people. Today at breakfast a cute couple married 60 years would still be talking to us if I hadn't given them my ...

... skinny, it took pretty much forever. Construction, and windy up hill roads don't equal speed. <br>We rolled our way into Missoula about 5PM, mountain time, and decided to check out the downtown area. There happened to be a music festival, with BEER, going on downtown. Some local bands were playing, and there were tons of people out and about. Missoula is a pretty cool ...

We decided to drive towards Glacier Park but near a larger city so we could do some shopping. <br><br>The landscape in Montana is unbelieveable. You have a large dry, barren mountain on one side with maybe a few trees or sagebushes and other other side is one green and loaded with trees. There there is going up and then coming down a 6-7 ...

Instead of driving back through the Tetons and Yellowstone, which would have taken hours, we drove north, strait through Idaho and headed to Missoula, Montana. On the way we stopped at a local brewery and sampled the spirits. Little did we know we would hit two more breweries that<br>day. But I guess that's how those sort of days start. We stayed with a couch surfer and great guy, Bob. He knew the town well and was ...

Today was a much needed "down" day. It wasn't a very exciting birthday for Jim, but laundry got done, groceries got purchased, prescription meds refilled enough for the trip into Canada and Alaska, the car got a bath, and a windshield chip got repaired.<br><br>We did finish the day with the ...

... be working and he got asked to switch with another guy, not that it helped us any, we still didn't get a whole lot of time to talk. But anyway, it's kind of funny how you make friends and the more you find out about them, you know those deep dark secrets, then they come out and you end up sharing mutal things and one supports the other through a tough time. Chris did that for me about 2 1/2 years ago. He had told me a story about him, one that would make someone cringe, well 2 1/2 years ...

... I am going crazy. I am reasonably sure I will be back soon, especially now that I have managed to escape the house and family and am sitting on the banks of Rattlesnake Creek, listening to the rush of crystal clear mountain water. I wish I could walk to a place with water like this back home. But that's just it, you see. Or maybe you don't, yet. I am only just getting there myself. I remember back in February when we planned this trip. (Back, that is, when Joe was ...

... to an end, but for me, thinking about how much had changed in the past year made me really happy. It was the perfect end to the trip. Allison Well, after 4807 road miles, 69 hiking miles, 80 river miles, and 5 gallons of leaked oil on the highways and roads of seven states we have returned to Missoula, where it all began. I cannot believe the bus made it the whole way without breaking down! It is kinda sad that the adventure is over, but it is ...

... As I predicted, the rain announced itself on the roof of my tent at an hour on my clock that'd I'd not seen in ages. Though it had been fantastic weather in Seattle for the past two weeks, the rain hung around until we'd gone over the first of our mountain passes - Stephens Pass in The Cascades at 4061 feet - the next day. A very British type of rain (relatively gentle, but soaks you to the skin), I felt it was a reminder of what I'd be missing at ...