Mike Goad on November 25th, 2007

Late Fall Hike — Seven Hollows Trail at Petit Jean State Park — posted at Haw Creek Out ‘n About.
After my publishing success on the first day of our camping trip last week, I didn’t follow through very well. On Saturday, last week,  we went on a hike that wore us out pretty much [...]

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Mike Goad on November 17th, 2007

Canoing On Lake Bailey (not us!)

We got to Petit Jean State Park, which is south of Morrilton, Arkansas, yesterday afternoon. It’s not a very long drive from where we live, so it didn’t take long to get here. We’ll be here one more night and head back home after lunch.
One [...]

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Mike Goad on November 14th, 2007

One of the nice things about being retired is that we can generally be flexible about doing things. This time last week, we had no definite plans for much of anything between now and the end of the year, other than one last camping trip before the temperature gets too low — and doing [...]

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We’ve visited Yellowstone National Park more times than we can remember over the years. One thing that has held true every time we visited after Labor Day — a U.S. holiday at the beginning of September — is that the crowds are gone except at the most popular spots like Old Faithful, and, even [...]

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Mike Goad on September 11th, 2007

We’re camped a little over 6 miles from the western entrance of Yellowstone National Park. I had just finished picking up my tools after setting up our internet satellite dish – and happened to look up.
The sky was dark, but we have a street light right next to our camper at this campground, so [...]

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Mike Goad on September 7th, 2007

Brrrr!
Woke up this morning and it was 59°F (15°C) inside! and 43°F (6°C) outside.
We had the heat set a little too low in the camper.
This weekend the high is supposed to be no higher than 60°, though today is supposed to get up to 70°.
We love autumn — even if it’s early September. This [...]

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Mike Goad on August 30th, 2007

When we got up this morning, the temperature in our camper was 61°F and it was 54°F outside, so we got our space heater out to warm things up a little bit.
We’re in Billings, Montana and the temperature is supposed to get to 94°F, so we will have the air conditioning on later.
Today, we’re going [...]

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