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August 2011

On the road again

08/23/11

On the road again

As travel agents, my parents received a lot of information about exotic places to go--a great resource when I needed to do a report for school on the Gobi Desert or Japan or Patagonia. Facing such an assignment, I'd dutifully trek down to their office and start my photo research in the giant cabinet where all this material was kept, neatly filed, alphabetically. It was my own personal travel library! Even more than the brochures about faraway things to do and places to see, though, I loved the maps, especially those that marked where my parents had escorted trips (i.e., for groups of football fans or retired teachers) with the routes they followed neatly highlighted.

I still love maps; some of my fondest travel memories are in rented cars in Europe, Peter driving, and my...

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The Perfect Picnic?

08/18/11

The Perfect Picnic?

I envisioned the perfect, romantic picnic: a wicker basket, good bottle of wine, soft blanket.

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Targhee Bluegrass 2011

08/15/11

Targhee Bluegrass 2011


20-ounce local brews: $5

Huge BBQ Kobe beef buns: $10

Hearing Sarah Jarosz, Donna the Buffalo, Joy Kills Sorrow, The Wilders, Peter Rowan, Railroad Earth, et. al. live, with a few thousand friends, at 8,200 feet in the Teton sunshine: Priceless

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Fun with House Guests

08/01/11

Fun with House Guests

Sometimes it takes out-of-town guests for locals to discover new activities and businesses off their normal, beaten path.  Such was the case for me this past week, as my husband and I were visited first by my 9-year-old niece and then by the rest of her family.  Needless to say, the normal tracks for a middle-aged couple with no children are vastly different than those for a family with two kids under 10!  Here are a few fun things we discovered:

Taking a pontoon boat out on Jackson Lake.  Suggested by my friend Kari, this was an absolute blast.  Consider it your floating beach, keeping you away from the pesky bugs inhabiting the shoreline.  We rented the pontoon boat from Signal Mountain Lodge’s marina.  Since it accommodates 8...

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Michael McCoy

Editor Michael McCoy is a native Wyomingite who, through no choice of his own, moved to Iowa (“the third greatest state in the nation,” he says) when he was only a few weeks old. After high school graduation, he beelined it back to the University of Wyoming, where he earned a degree in Anthropology and the nickname of “Mac.” In addition to his Teton-area editorial duties, Mac works for the Missoula, Montana-based Adventure Cycling Association and writes freelance articles and books about the outdoors. “But that’s enough about me,” he says. “This blog is about you. I will prime the pump with an entry now and then--but ultimately, we hope it will be our readers, both locals and out-of-staters, who keep the streams of conversation flowing.”

 

 

 

Contributing blogger Susan Traylor Lykes was born and raised in the Denver area, a third-generation Coloradan. She spent much of her childhood in the mountains, and took up fly fishing at the tender age of ten, wielding her grandfather’s old bamboo rod and Pflueger reel. After graduating from the University of Vermont, Susan earned a master's degree in Town Planning from the University of Montana. For the past decade, she has focused on nonprofit land conservation and land use, serving on the boards of the Land Trust Alliance, the Teton Regional Land Trust, and the Orton Family Foundation.
Susan and her husband, Mayo, call both sides of the Tetons home. They are enthusiastic travelers and outdoorsmen — hiking, skiing, fly fishing, and bird hunting.

 

 

 

Contributing blogger Jeanne Anderson is a Cheyenne native and graduate of the University of Wyoming who has spent the last 25 years as a writer, PR consultant, columnist, and editor. Her passions include hiking, cooking reading, traveling, community, and creativity (she’s in her third term on the Idaho Commission on the Arts). She credits her broad practical streak to her parents, who started the first travel agency in the Cowboy State—from them she learned “every bathroom in the world is down the hall and to the left.” Jeanne and her husband Peter started Dark Horse Books in Driggs in 1995; their two-year experiment lasted 14 years. Now out from behind the bookstore counter, she’s looking forward to many new adventures.

 

 

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