Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter Thirty

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Mokihana

Since I’m still not feeling 100% good (this has been the cold/virus of the century.  Two weeks already.  Oh.  Wait. I’m not even a century old yet (good ting, yeah?)  K’den, virus of da past twenty years den. I can tell I’m getting better, but still stay congested lidat.  Killfight dis. But I digress.

Anyway, pau hana, I just kicked back and re-read all the posts from Da Mystery Road Trip Revealed that I did back in 2009.  All the way to Montana and back. Sometimes I crack myself up, reading what I wrote. I am so weird sometimes. But you know what?  It made for fun reading. So I think I should be more weird on this trip.  Oh wait. I was. I just haven’t been writing it so much. LOL.

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Maxwell and Jasper

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Mokihana

I coulda sworn I wrote a blog post about these two, but I’ve searched everywhere and can’t find one.  Even checked all my Word docs, PictureTrail, Photobucket… nothing. Very sad.  I can write it again (good ting I get good memory, yeah?), but no can find a original photos I wen take. Continue reading →

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I Really Need To Make This…

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Mokihana

…as comfort food for all the coughing I’ve been doing lately.

smores

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Bonus Post for AFK

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Mokihana

Because I just couldn’t not do it!

oom

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter Twenty-Nine

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Mokihana

Hui!

I’m gonna start of with a video this time.  We’re driving makai, and those are the Sapphire Mountains to the left.  We’re still east of Missoula.

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter Twenty-Eight

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Mokihana

One thing I keep forgetting to mention about Montana is that before we go I need to buy stock in lip balm. Because I use it like crazy when we’re there. I never realized how much drier it is there.  Not a bad thing, just different.  I always have lip balm with me, and in the Rocky Mountains I used it copiously;; my lips always felt chapped. I’m sure if we lived there my body would get used to it, but the difference between there and here was very noticeable.

One thing I wish I’d known then, when we were traveling along I-90, or maybe hurtling along would be a better description…because the speed limit was 75 mph…is that there was a frontage road that we could have driven on instead.

Frontage Road before Bearmouth

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Mother’s Day 2015

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Mokihana

Mother’s Day has generally been a day of mixed emotions for me: It has represented sadness and regret at what I couldn’t have with my mother, and happiness at what I can have with my beloved daughters.

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter Twenty-Seven

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Mokihana

Ho, I wen forget to add da snow video from Bozeman!  So try go back hea, scroll down, and watch da snow coming down and listen to da robin singing.

U stay back?  K’den.

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Sweet Sights and Sounds for AFK

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Mokihana

When I came across this, I knew I had to post it for AFK… such sweetness for a sweet friend.

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter Twenty-Six

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Mokihana

This time.  Definitely heading makai.  Toward the ocean. Of course, I could also say we’re heading mauka, since we’re also heading towards mountains, but that’s ‘way too confusing.  So makai it is.

Homestake Pass.

Homestake Pass is a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. It sits on the Continental Divide on the border between Jefferson County and Silver Bow County, six miles south-southeast of Butte in Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest at an elevation of 6,329 feet.

By now, we were very familiar with it.  Just think…on the Bozeman side of the pass, water runs one way, and on the Butte side of it, water runs makai.  During this trip and our previous one to Montana, we’d cross back and forth over the Continental Divide time after time in a fraction of the time it took early pioneers to cross it.  It was actually pretty cool to think that we were on the backbone of the US.
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