Where should I begin?
What an exhilarating experience it has been for the past week traveling from California to North Dakota and back!
If you are a regular to my blog, you may have recalled that four years ago I entrusted two of my children to U-Mary in ND. Just like that, I am now blessed with two graduates.
This will have been my only extended trip for the past 29 years of marriage without my inseparable companion. This is the only sad part of my trip, i.e., that Mrs. Miracles was not with me.
Driving 15 hundred miles to get to ND by myself, I took my sweet time.... I made a stop in Montana and purchased a 2-day fishing license for $50!!! I believe that's more than a California residence annual fishing license. I confess that I have an addiction to fishing. In my excitement to fish in Montana, I neglected to check the water conditions in Livingston.... It recently rained there, and the river was "blown." That's technical jargon for the water was brownish and unfishable. I fished in the frigid weather conditions, and got wind burned on the back side of my hand. Ouch!
On to Billings where the water conditions was a little bit better. Met up with some other fishermen at Lake Elmo State Park. Fished for a couple of hours and no one caught anything....
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| Hint: fish under pier :-) |
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| Serious fishing lures.... |
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| Will these work for salmon? |
My theory is that I had breakfast with brother J.B., whom I met in Bozeman, way past the fishing time. Thus, the fish went back to hibernating by the time I headed out to the river. I'm sticking to that story.
My daughter has wonderful friends (and their parents) that I had an opportunity to meet. It was a treasure to witness such beautiful friendship.
I never tire of seeing the wonderful views while driving. It put things in perspective that only in America can a farm boy from 'Nam grow up and be a superhero.😁
May God bless your day.
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| Can't get enough of this view. |
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| Real life bison! |
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| Two down... four more to go 👌😁😅 |
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| JU with the President of U-Mary!!! |
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| More than 3,000 miles! Wow! |
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| WizTech caught this morning! |
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