Travel
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Note 84 – Montana Adventure – GNP – Lake McDonald
Glacier National Park (GNP) is known as “The Crown of the Continent”. Its northern boundary is the border between the United States and Canada, where it adjoins Canada’s Waterton Lakes National Park forming the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. Created in 1910, GNP is over 1 million acres (1583 square miles) and contained a recorded 126…
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Note 83 – Montana Adventure – Travel to Columbia Falls
Our travels to Columbia Falls were mostly uneventful. Both couples flew into Billings. Billings is the largest town in Montana with a population around 120,000 and just under 200,000 in the “metro” area. The entire state of Montana, the fourth largest by area, only has about 1.2 million residents. Montana’s capital, Helena, has a population…
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Note 82 – Montana Adventure
In a few days we’ll be heading off to Montana and meeting our friends, Keith and Paula, to go explore Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park. Yes, I know that 96% of Yellowstone is in Wyoming and only 3% in Montana (the other 1% is in Idaho), but all of our lodging is in…
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Note 80 – Passage to Eastern Europe Wrap-up
We’ve been back a while, so there has been time to reflect on our trip through the Balkan countries of Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, and Hungary. As a reminder, here is the cruise route. Favorite Things? Usually, I can pick out one specific thing that stood out about a trip as my “favorite”. However, I…
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Note 79 – April 2025 Books
Total Books Read: 4 Total Pages Read: 1277 Longest Read: 406 Shortest Read: 104 Total Books Skimmed: 2 Total Pages Skimmed: 2610 Genres: 5 (Fiction – 1, History – 1, Mystery – 1, Thriller – 1, Travel – 2) If you’ve previously read my Notes on my monthly reading, you may have noticed that my…
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Note 78 – Budapest, Hungary – Day Trip to Lake Balaton
Although Viking offered 6 optional excursions today, we decided to visit the Lake Balaton region using a private guide we found using Viator. For future reference of those interested, the tours offered by Viking were: Why Lake Balaton? My work colleague, Gezá, lives near here and had recommended on our previous trip in 2017 that…
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