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Laramie Afraid to push my luck any further on this hard journey, so pulled over in the Laramie to wait overnight to fix a wheel bearing. Nice town, cool nights and mornings already; I tell people I was born here and they are friendly about it. I read an [...] Lakeview, Montana Good friends are gold in these mountains, and because of that my son and I have had the opportunity to visit the Schoolhouse Duck Club nine different times over the last 23 years sometimes with other good friends and other times with the rest of my family. The Schoolhouse is over 100 [...] Helena Coming back on the grid for a day, you go through your email, answer the urgent calls, see what’s tweeting, hit the Facebook, and scan through the headlines in the New York Times and other papers to see what’s up. The last is the least rewarding task sometimes. An irresistible headline jumps up on [...] Helena Back on the grid and glad to report that despite some challenges, the Silver Bullet (nee’ Airstream International Sovereign) veteran of 4 years of New Orleans post-Katrina rebuilding and one year of Denver acclimation, made it with only the bare minimum of huffing and puffing to a permanent at the edge of the [...] Helena One hour countdown! Coffee making, Times scanned (congratulations for an excellent and hilarious piece, Emma, on the Blago trail getting it in the shorts!), packing underway, and with great excitement moving down the last items on the list, as we count the hours until Rock Creek and radio silence and entering another world. I am [...] Helena Driving across Wyoming and Montana is a homecoming as memories and mountains swallowed 50 feet of truck and trailer, family and friends, as we gulped in the view, cool dry air, and good company. At lunch we lived a highlight reel as old comrades and friends, Pat Sweeny of WORC (Western Organization of [...] Sheridan I’ll be honest. I may be missing some of the news, since I’m spending the daylight hours pulling a post-Katrina trailer to Montana, but can it really be possible that a $624 million dollar settlement on yet more of the Countrywide fiascos has literally attracted virtually zero notice in the news? This $624 [...] Denver New Century Financial Corporation dead in the heart of Orange County, which used to be subprime central, was the canary in the mine that not enough people heard as their demise ushered in the great meltdown for home buyers and mortgage holders. The other day a piece in the Los Angeles Times noted [...] |
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