Along the Road

From flat land to Paradise

I've never liked flat land. I will always be a mountain man.

From Hay to Eternity

Devil's Tower, Wyoming

This is the core of an ancient volcano that has weathered away. It stands more than 800 feet above the surrounding plain. The Indians who lived here explained it this way. One day seven girls were playing when a bear chased them onto a rock. They prayed to the rock to save them and the rock began to grow. As it grew higher, the bear tried to claw it's way to the top, but couldn't. The claw marks are still visible on the sides. Eventually, the rock grew up to heaven and the girls are there, known as the Seven Sisters. We call them the Pleiades.

We were about eight or ten miles away when we took these pictures. Pretty large even at that distance.

Farm, ranch structures

These were taken somewhere west of the Mississippi. No idea which state.

Lukie loves it. He's so much happier here. He's told me numerous times.


This ranch is about seven or eight miles away from our place. Love the entranceway.


This was our "home away from home" for three days until we found the cabin.

Milestones along the Way

The Clampetts head west--a new breed of pioneers. Looks dangerous, doesn't it. The only trouble we had was in Rapid City, SD. We had been thru the Badlands and Mt. Rushmore, and had just pulled into a hotel parking lot. I checked in and when I went back to the truck, Cindy said I needed to look at a trailer tire. When I touched the valve stem, it exploded and blew the inside right out--15 minutes off the interstate. Next morning I changed the tire, drove two blocks to a Wal-Mart tire center, had a new stem put in, and back on the road. To top it off, their computer wouldn't read my debit card, so they waved it off.

Beautiful! Clear sailing the rest of the way.