A Wildflower Morning

Prius Camper and Long Lake on the Beartooth Highway My husband and I went on vacation for a couple weeks in July in our camper, our Prius Camper. I'd seen videos about people doing this since I bought my 2007 Prius. I knew I wanted to try this at least once. We had wanted to drive to Alaska this summer to celebrate our 25th anniversary, but Mr. Covid is keeping the borders closed to all but essential workers. We had to come up with alternative plans and stay closer to home. We needed a vacation and some time of restoration in nature more than ever after a whole spring quarter of isolation and intense online work activity. While Rob was finishing up his final responsibilities, I got our Prius camper ready. The foundation of the bed is a piece of nice, thin, Masonite board, cut to size to level out the changes in elevation when the seats are down. The next layer is some floor mats made for shops that fit together like a puzzle from Harbor Freight. Then came the bed roll. This was two...

If you interested in seeing a bit of what it was like in the old west, or exploring old ghost towns, you might want to get off of I-90 when you are driving through Southwest Montana and go to Bannock State Park .  There are many old buildings that were there in the 1860's to the 1930's.  Bannock's first residents hoped to strike it rich when gold was discovered at nearby grasshopper creek.  They were disappointed, but the town still became Montana's first territorial capital in 1864.  Very little has been restored in the town, and most doors are open to explore. See a bit of the town through our eyes. Welcome! Some homes were rough boards, some had painted muslin walls, some even had wallpaper.  They insulated with whatever they could get their hands on.  Can't you imagine how this housewife felt when she was able to have fresh pink walls with a little insulation over those rough pine boards? This is all that re...