by Mary Tastad | Dec 12, 2022 | Billings County, Custer Trail Auto Tour, Dickinson, Medora, North Dakota Badlands, North Dakota scenery, North Dakota winter, outdoors, Places to go, Quality of Life, Road Trip, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Wildlife
Stay warm while you are on a winter road trip Yeah, I don’t want to freeze my face in negative temperatures, either – and especially not if the wind is blowing. Yikes! So, let’s consider a warm winter road trip. We suggest staying warm on one of these road trips in...
by Mary Tastad | Oct 10, 2022 | family, Little Missouri River, Little Missouri State Park, McKenzie County, MHA Nation, North Dakota Badlands, Places to go, Quality of Life
Kids and quality of life in the West Have you ever noticed you are around something a lot, but you don’t notice it? Then, once you notice, you can’t help but notice it every time. That happened to me this summer. We shifted our focus this summer from hiking and...
by Mary Tastad | Oct 7, 2022 | History, North Dakota history, Places to go, Williams County, Williston
It’s all in the cemetery records. Killed at Fort Buford. A brief history of Fort Buford — Murder and Suicide (Editor’s note. This murder suicide is one of several that happened at the Fort. A Halloween tour of the Fort’s cemetery is planned to...
by Mary Tastad | Oct 3, 2022 | Autumn, family, Little Missouri River, North Dakota scenery, outdoors, Photography, Places to go, Quality of Life, Road Trip
Take a drive along the Little Missouri River in the Badlands. Any time of the year it will yield some of the best views of the Badlands. Good hiking, good mountain biking, good camping. Now, as trees turn colors its a treat to see good native color. 1. The...
by Mary Tastad | Oct 1, 2022 | Autumn, Camping, Little Missouri National Grasslands, Maah Daah Hey, North Dakota Badlands, outdoors, Photography, Places to go, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Things To Do
It’s kind of a scarred-up place. We like Magpie Valley because it’s pretty isolated and that’s why it’s free to be just what it is, wild and free. Antelope are at home here. We’ve seen mountain lion tracks, so I guess they know where to get wild and free...
by Mary Tastad | Aug 25, 2022 | Fair, North Dakota Badlands, Places to go, Quality of Life, Road Trip, Small towns, Things To Do
How does Slope County, the least populated county in the state, put on such a big event? It’s a community thing. Very authentic. The kind we like. And we have a few photos here to show you. You won’t see a lot of food trucks and big vendors from out of the...
