Saturday, June 18, 2016

Glacier National Park Elk


Glacier National Park


Glacier National Park


Glacier National Park


Glacier National Park Marmot


Glacier National Park


Glacier National Park


Glacier National Park


Glacier National Park


Glacier National Park


Bear


Mountain Goats Near Glacier National Park


Jeep License Plate


Bought the little jeep, and drove it to Scott Air Force Base where I purchased the Marine Corps license plate holder.  I put it on then left the car there for a month and flew home. We went back a month later and drove it to meet our friends in St Louis.

They enjoyed pointing out to me the error in my ways.

Little Red Jeep With Big Brother in Black Hills


Friday, June 17, 2016

Corner To Corner Road Trip



Interactive map
https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/maps.htm


Schedule on Spreadsheet - Click to Edit




Redlodge, Old Faithful. Jackson Hole
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Red+Lodge,+MT/Cooke+City-Silver+Gate,+MT/Fishing+Bridge+Visitor+Center,+East+Entrance+Road,+Cody,+WY/West+Thumb,+Yellowstone+National+Park,+WY+82190/Old+Faithful,+Yellowstone+National+Park,+WY+82190/Jackson,+WY/@44.2565658,-111.3683793,8z/data=!4m38!4m37!1m5!1m1!1s0x534f2a19f746fcf5:0xb58a35f67520d70b!2m2!1d-109.2468211!2d45.1857782!1m5!1m1!1s0x534e557daa946e29:0x777de027d2c63de1!2m2!1d-109.9165534!2d45.0160445!1m5!1m1!1s0x534e1b89bc152649:0xc2d712e8f86d1990!2m2!1d-110.3777461!2d44.5630289!1m5!1m1!1s0x5351fa3f2f678449:0x2274f83433384c10!2m2!1d-110.5730438!2d44.4155079!1m5!1m1!1s0x5351ed1b81592e5f:0x83b7c275a6822a1!2m2!1d-110.8281376!2d44.4604788!1m5!1m1!1s0x53531a58fccf7f4b:0x3d1c01cbb13a835c!2m2!1d-110.7624282!2d43.4799291!3e0

Jackson Hole to Whitefish
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Red+Lodge,+MT/Old+Faithful,+Yellowstone+National+Park,+WY+82190/Jackson,+WY/@44.2605,-111.1835761,8z/data=!4m20!4m19!1m5!1m1!1s0x534f2a19f746fcf5:0xb58a35f67520d70b!2m2!1d-109.2468211!2d45.1857782!1m5!1m1!1s0x5351ed1b81592e5f:0x83b7c275a6822a1!2m2!1d-110.8281376!2d44.4604788!1m5!1m1!1s0x53531a58fccf7f4b:0x3d1c01cbb13a835c!2m2!1d-110.7624282!2d43.4799291!3e0





Alternative 1 - We pick up LA in Seattle and go where she chooses - about Friday June 24+-
or
Alternative 2 - LA takes train to West Glacier or Whitefish - Glacier National Park on Friday June 17. We meet her there and stay 2-3 days, then go to Banff for 2-3 days, then Vancouver for 2-3 Days, then back to Seattle (and Victoria if we have time).

1  LA and RuHu meet at West Glacier Station, stay in Glacier
2  See Glacier National Park
3  Drive to Banff, stay at Lake Louise Lodge
4  Stay in Banff
5. Stay on the road to Vancouver
6. Drive to Vancouver
7. Stay in Vancouver
8. Drive to Seattle

If we need to cut some time we could skip Vancouver. Vancouver and Victoria are close to Seattle and we can do them anytime.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banff,_Alberta






https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Sarasota,+FL/Hot+Springs,+AR/St+Louis,+MO/Chicago,+IL/Fort+McCoy,+1654+South+11th+Avenue,+Fort+McCoy,+WI+54656/Red+Lodge,+MT/Yellowstone+National+Park,+Wyoming/Jackson,+WY/Banff,+AB,+Canada/Seattle,+WA/@36.4390283,-119.2783152,4z/data=!4m62!4m61!1m5!1m1!1s0x88c337e69db2c22b:0xe335341d1d5715d9!2m2!1d-82.5306527!2d27.3364347!1m5!1m1!1s0x87cd2a9388325047:0xbaa8bef944021e0d!2m2!1d-93.0551795!2d34.5037004!1m5!1m1!1s0x87d8b4a9faed8ef9:0xbe39eaca22bbe05b!2m2!1d-90.1994042!2d38.6270025!1m5!1m1!1s0x880e2c3cd0f4cbed:0xafe0a6ad09c0c000!2m2!1d-87.6297982!2d41.8781136!1m5!1m1!1s0x87fe8bf61c718207:0xa5531cf28280ded3!2m2!1d-90.684563!2d44.010807!1m5!1m1!1s0x534f2a19f746fcf5:0xb58a35f67520d70b!2m2!1d-109.2468211!2d45.1857782!1m5!1m1!1s0x5351e55555555555:0xaca8f930348fe1bb!2m2!1d-110.588455!2d44.427963!1m5!1m1!1s0x53531a58fccf7f4b:0x3d1c01cbb13a835c!2m2!1d-110.7624282!2d43.4799291!1m5!1m1!1s0x5370ca45910c4afd:0xcaafaebedaac9463!2m2!1d-115.5707694!2d51.1783629!1m5!1m1!1s0x5490102c93e83355:0x102565466944d59a!2m2!1d-122.3320708!2d47.6062095!3e0





Friday, June 10, 2016

1880 Town

1880 Town in Western South Dakota


As a planner I have planned many towns, but my cousins in western South Dakota planned and developed an entire community.  Well done, cousins.


"Located 22 miles west of Murdo on I-90, 1880 Town is South Dakota’s attic. It’s not a crammed attic, though, thanks to its setting on the vast prairie. You gaze down Main Street to the horizon beyond, not to adjacent neighborhoods and tall fast food signs. Much of the stuff here is big: whole buildings hauled in from Quinn, Dixon, Tea, Gregory, Gettysburg, and countless other living or forgotten towns, including long-submerged Oahe Mission (under Lake Oahe)."

"So while the town site isn’t authentic to history, its structures are. That sets it apart from most other recreated Old West towns. You feel the authenticity in weathered wood textures, and you smell it. “These buildings stood through the big dust storms of the 1930s,” observes the town’s only year-round resident, Scott Key. “You’re probably still smelling some of that dust.”

“Visitors tell us they feel like they actually walked back in time,” says Richard Hullinger, the attraction’s co-owner. “They often add that they didn’t necessarily expect that when they stopped.”

"1880 Town didn’t originate with any grand vision of authenticity. In the early 1970s a movie production company made a deal with Murdo’s Clarence Hullinger. He would supply antiques for a western scheduled to be shot in South Dakota, and the company would build an Old West main street on Hullinger family property. In the end the movie shoot fell through, but an ersatz saloon and little shop were left behind as reminders of the project, standing within view of spanking new I-90."

"In Murdo people say plans for expanding the site, first called Two Strike after the historical Lakota leader, were sketched on re
staurant napkins. That’s because Clarence and his wife, Anna Marie, owned and operated the local Teepee restaurant. And anyone who knew Clarence could have predicted the town’s expansion wasn’t going to involve construction of phony buildings as long as there were antique structures plentiful across the prairie, standing abandoned on main streets, or relegated to second lives as ranch granaries. Clarence, his granddaughter Sally Cuny says, “always has some sort of antique to show you, along with documentation, whether it’s a gun, picture, or saddle.”


Click to read the full arcile in The South Dakota Magazine:

http://southdakotamagazine.com/1880-town


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    The Hullinger family created a new town out of buildings that other South Dakota towns didn't want.
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