The sole of the foot is a map, the palm of the hand a letter; learned by the heart and worn close to the body. --Adrienne Rich

The trip begins...

Antje & Ute in Rapid City, SD

Bear Butte

From the top of Bear Butte...

Actually, the food wasn't that bad...

Antje near our Bald Mountain campsite

Gulliver's Travels

Ancient Medicine Wheel in the Big Horn Mountains

Hello, Marmot

Horseshoe Canyon

Me, Antje, Ute

sleeping dragon near our camp spot on Big Horn Lake

treacherous road...

...but we are problem solvers!

hard to believe there was about 100 rvs behind us... oh yeah, and a landing strip.

car-part sculpture in Blackfeet

another one in the Tribal hospital parking lot

almost to Glacier NP

our campsite in Glacier

big moon...

Going Into The Sun road

W H O A. (sort-of)

one of my favorite camp spots...

on an evening hike

Dead Man Henry's

great minds think alike...

dream bus.

Cascades NP

thinking at Puget Sound

BYE-BYE Seattle. (and Mt. Ranier... see it?!)

off the San Juan Islands

fuzzy... but so close!

a story-book island... with seals and an eagle.

upper part of hike at Dungeness NWR

lower part of hike in Dungeness

on the way to Neah Bay

our campsite in Neah Bay, where just past the trees...

is the ocean!

Cape Flattery

the most northwest point of the continental US...

one of my FAVORITE days... a hike through an amazing forest, to the cliffs, to the ocean below.

we hiked on the beach to those rocks in the distance...

...but first to the tide pools...

fish or dinosaur???

deer...

seagull...

Antje.

eagles have lunch.

their eyes were watching god...

Antje, Ute and turtle rock

the tide pool's swallowed-up

in La Push

the sign said cross at your own risk. ok.

driftwood side of the beach in la push

the edge of the ocean in La Push

Rialto Beach

near our camp site in the Hoh Rainforest

enchanted forest

bye-bye ocean. i'll miss you.

odd east washington town.

Yellowstone

old faithful

what comes up...

...must go down.

here he comes...

...here he is...

...there he goes.

fire over in Red Lodge

and smoke in Cody.

my best rodeo shot (haha)

Bear's Lodge