The Well Behaved Dingo

I was relaxing in the van this afternoon while Sarroar was inside the library. I was coming back from heading in to pee when a cop pulled up. Turned out the neighbors thought it was suspicious that we’d parked on the public street in the same spot two days in a row. Who the hell [...]

Last night we slept near a park, and we really slept in. I woke up all warm, with scherzo snuggled in my arms snoring. When she sleeps in human orientation its so nice, but when she sleep horizontal on the bed and then lays on top of the my blankets it’s hell! She pushes me [...]

There’s a monsterous cave a few miles down the highway from my mom’s property which Sarah has never seen so we decided to check it out.

We hit the library in Missoula and grabbed five books all claiming to be the essential guide to camping in Montana. All of them but one were crap. With no where to camp we decided to get the hell out of Missoula and go visit my mom in Willow Creek. We stopped on the way [...]

Well, once again last night was more driving than I care to admit to. We got into Bends Idaho well after dark and couldn’t find the campground we were after anywhere. When desperate we drive and drive. First up a long banging road to forest service land with “three great campgrounds” according to our guide [...]

I’ve been kicking myself since we left the campsite on the Metolius river yesterday. We drove for hours and hours, exactly what we’d told ourselves we weren’t going to do on this trip, looking for a place to camp. We checked sites all along the way, only to find most of them snowbound or “closed [...]

After Sarah woke up we pushed on and, taking our chances on some unmarked forest service roads, found a camp site just off the Metolius river right at sunset. There was only one other set of tire tracks that had driven over the snow patches recently so we were surprised to find a perfect campsite [...]