Living in the city

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  • Hidden Gems in Plain Sight

    Sometimes you stumble upon places that are hidden gems. To the outsider, they may be anomalies or unexpected treasures or both! And the best part is that they are in plain sight of people in these places every day. I recently experienced these in Arlee, MT and Moses Lake, WA. The Garden of One Thousand…

  • Climate Change in the West

    I spent a week at Henrys Lake, Idaho. It was idyllic. Notice I use this hyperbole a lot as I travel in this larger than life environment. It’s quite a change from Florida. The first part of the week there was great in terms of visibility and weather. And then the haze and smoke came.…

  • Energy Flows in a Close Encounter

    If you are of a certain age, you remember seeing Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Richard Dreyfuss compulsively sculpts his mashed potatoes in a shape that he knows means something but has no clue why. Finally he and other similarly driven people end up in Wyoming at the Devils Tower national monument! The aliens…

  • Yellowstone!

    If you are traveling in an RV, there is an expectation that you will visit national parks. And Yellowstone is the nation’s first designated park, so it makes sense to make the pilgrimage there, which I did! It was created as federal lands in the 1870s and of course was settled long before that by…

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