Montana Trip 2021 | Hiking in Strawberry Hill Recreation Area | Driving through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska | October 2021 We started off this morning with a 3 mile loop hike around Strawberry Hill Recreation Area, where we had camped the night before. The air was brisk, but we warmed up quickly…
Montana Trip 2021 | Hiking in the Little Belt Mountains | Driving Across Montana | September 2021 On Thursday morning, it was time to begin our long drive back to Nebraska. We said goodbye to Great Falls as we took US-87 Southeast out of town, then South on US-89. The main purpose of this was,…
Montana Trip 2021 | Our Time in Great Falls, Montana | September 2021 We awoke on Monday morning in our tent in the Snowy Mountains, with our only plans for the day being to make it the rest of the way to Great Falls where Curtis had to work for the next couple days. Since…
Montana Trip 2021 | Drive Across Montana | Camping & Hiking in the Big Snowy Mountains | September 2021 After finishing our time in North Dakota, we hopped on I-94 and entered Montana. We had about 6 hours of driving through this state today. However, we couldn’t simply just take the interstate the whole way,…
Montana Trip 2021 | Camping & Exploring in Theodore Roosevelt National Park | September 2021 This was our second visit to North Dakota. The last time we were here, it was a spur of the moment decision to change our intended cross-country drive because of wildfires in Wyoming and Idaho. While there, we hiked the…
Montana Trip 2021 | Driving from Omaha to Bismarck, ND | September 2021 In late September, Curtis was assigned to another work trip. After all our summer travels, we were feeling worn out and thought maybe we would pass on the “free vacation” this time and just have Curtis fly out and back. But then,…