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 | Apr 25, 2020 | family, Grassy Butte, Hike, McKenzie County, North Dakota Badlands, North Dakota scenery, outdoors, Photoblog, Quality of Life, Snapshot Saturday, Things To Do
Saturday Snapshot It’s tough not to go outside while social-distancing. Here’s one place that’s open for you to get out. It could be why so many families are taking advantage of warm afternoons to do a little exploring and learning. Many families go...
by Mary Tastad | Jul 6, 2018 | Dunn County, family, Killdeer, North Dakota history, Places to go, Things To Do
Museums get a bad rap. They can be dark, dank, dull, dusty and a place where kids avoid. Not this one. Overlooking the historic Dunn County valley is the Dunn County Museum. It is bright, clean and fun. The museum folks cater to children. During the school year,...
by Mary Tastad | Jun 25, 2018 | History, journal, MHA Nation, North Dakota history, Places to go
Fort Union, a break from Wilderness survival This isn’t the 21st Century — it’s life in the early 19th Century. Hundreds of men and women left their isolation and separation to endure and survive inhuman conditions.. They trudged and floated to a...
by Mary Tastad | Apr 14, 2018 | family, Small towns, Snapshot Saturday, Things To Do, Watford City
“I remember back in the day when I was a kid, we had to walk five miles to school, through a raging blizzard……. ” And so the stories went for years and years as many of us grew up and heard our parents, or grandparents, or...
