Day 11 – The next day we moved camp to the Chancellor campground in Yoho, and took a short hike to Laughing Falls: 8 km roundtrip and 60 m of elevation. (The hike starts close to the Takakkaw Falls–the first falls pictured).
Day 10 was taken up with driving through Glacier National Park (BC, not Montana) to Golden, BC, where we camped with numerous paragliders.
Days 7,8,9 — We cut diagonally across Oregon, and Washington, and crossed the border with the piano in about 10 minutes. Once in Vancouver we loaded the piano into Chris and Mike’s garage. In ensuing days we hung out with Chris and Lyra in Stanle…
Day 6 – We spent a day *not* driving in Boise. Jack and Beth took us to the World Center for Birds of Prey, and had organized an afternoon of rafting–great fun!
Day 5 – We drove down to Twin Falls, Idaho, where Malcolm and Michelle and baby Ella are living. Later, crossed to Boise. Malcolm says this part of Idaho gets about 11″ of precipitation annually. No agriculture without irrigation.
Days 3 and 4 – We picked Peter up in Eau Claire, and headed west across MN, then North Dakota, camping for the night in Jamestown. The next day we stopped at the Painted Canyon (Badlands) and really enjoyed the short hike from a rest stop down int…
We arrived in St. Paul on Henry David’s birthday and shared an awful lot of ribs at “Famous Dave’s” to celebrate.
OK, we’re taking off for the west coast with the Reimer family piano in our little U-haul van (pictured with E and B on top). We bought a refurbished Yamaha (black, pictured with the cat), and the piano movers moved the Reimer piano into the U-hau…
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Some snapshots from the 2010 Pumpkinvine ride…