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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Montana Road Trip 2015, Chapter Twenty-FIve

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Mokihana

We spent several days with Cousins, enjoying our sightseeing time in and around Bozeman.  Best of all were our mealtimes and evenings together, which were filled with laughter and talks about our shared family histories, and skeletons in the closet.  One night we got to thinking about movies we loved, and we discovered that we all loved “Mad Mad Mad Mad World”.  Cousins had the video, so they got everything hooked up, and the four of us spent a glorious ninety minutes watching that crazy movie, laughing like lolos.


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Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter Twenty-Four

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Mokihana

Ha. I bet by the time we get back home on this road trip I’ll be up to Part Ukubillion!  You can see Canyon Creek down there; we parked right at the bridge.  You can see the sandbar where we saw the pelicans last time.


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Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter Twenty-Three

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Mokihana

I don’t know whether or not to laugh or cry or go hide in the bushes! No can believe it’s been so long since I did an update for our 2010 Montana road trip! Yikes!

Well, it’s out of time out, so here we go again. Last time, Nolemana and I were traveling south along Highway 89, and had just passed through the tiny town of Clyde Park. Little did we know that we were about to see something absolutely fantastic!
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Antique Spinning Wheel Showcase 2015, Part Two

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Mokihana

These two lovely ladies were at the table where the raffle tickets for the wheel I was spinning on were being sold. Six foa five dollah! Some people bought $20.00 worth of tickets.  One wahine told me that it only takes one ticket, so that’s all she bought.

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