Tag: wyoming
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Chaffetz, Weiner, Love Ewe–Bestial Friends Forever
Many moons ago, upon the occasion of that most holy of holiest (not to mention drunkenist) nights, Christmas In August, I gifted my old friend and mentor Perry with an inflatable lamb–THE LOVE EWE. Intended as a joke, she proved to be quite a hit at hunting camp. As they say in Wyoming, “welcome to…
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Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight
I don’t see a lot of films in the theater, and I rarely review those I do–if for no other reason than that I tend to spend my big screen movie money on empty calorie treats like the latest Star Wars film–spectacles with running and jumping, superheroes and spacemen, things that go kaboom in the…
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Home Sweet? Home
It’s been awhile: 23 days. 5974 Miles. 15 States. 10 National Parks. 2 Spectacular State Parks. 5 Motel Rooms. 7 Campgrounds. Temps 33 (Madison, Yellowstone National Park) to -99 degrees (Moab, Utah). 2 Jacuzzi nights. About a dozen great old friends. A few new ones. A lot of new adventures. Am I glad to be…
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Where’s Chuck? 8.4.15
I’m on vacation, but I planned ahead. Presuming that we stay on track, we’ll be seeing a lot of cool things–here’s what I hope to see today. This is the second epic long day of over-ambitious landmark bagging. We’ll begin from our campsite near Rushmore, weave our way through the wild and windy scenic highways…
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VACATION!
By the time you wake up and read this–by the time the WordPress robot publishes this–I’ll be two large travel mugs and a couple hundred miles into our big vacation, having slipped off in the foggy pre-dawn morning on our way west, and we hope to stay on vacation for several weeks. I’ve lived in…
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Another Yellowstone Tourist Thumped By Bison? Go Figure.
I spent a few summers working in the tourist industry in Wyoming a few centuries ago, and I’m looking forward to taking my kids there to see the sights and meet some of my great co-workers for a reunion this summer. It’s good to see some things haven’t changed–like killer nachos and tourists doing really,…
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Found Winter Photo: Bison
I’ll admit it. I went looking for this one. The American Bison evolved with their massive heads and necks so they could plow their way through the prodigious snows of the American Great Plains. You probably know these animals colloquially as “buffalo,” but that is a misnomer. Buffalo are a very different animal. In…
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Autumn Photo: Yellowstone 1990
Wandering around Yellowstone with some friends way back in 1990, mid-afternoon on the road between Mammoth and Tower, we spotted a colorful grove of aspen trees. We waded out into the dry autumn grass, plopped down, and stared up and through the golden leaves at the perfect blue sky above. We dozed off and had…
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Norris-Canyon Cut-Off Road, 9/11/90
Brothers. Bag of apples, sharp cheddar, Sixpacks and loaves of bread: Biblical fare. Binoculars, and a taped-together roadmap. Aspens rusting in meadows gone to gold, the day thick with autumn mist, wanting wool. Appalachian boys loosed in the caldera, hooting camp elk bugles from the highway, taking turns at the wheel and reading out loud…
Old Road Apples 