by Mary Tastad | May 28, 2018 | journal, Montana, Places to go, Road Trip
Why Eastern Montana? We heard it repeatedly when we met motorcyclists in Sidney this month. “It’s the roads.” “It’s the views.” “There’s no traffic.” “The sky is endless.” The fact is, Eastern...
by Mary Tastad | May 15, 2018 | Food, Montana, Places to go, Road Trip
Brew house restaurant in Sidney After a long day riding on the curving, undulating roads of the badlands in western North Dakota, we descended into the Yellowstone River Valley of eastern Montana and on to one of our favorite towns, Sidney, Montana. Hungry and...
by Mary Tastad | May 12, 2018 | journal, Mild-mannered Explorers, Montana, Photoblog, Photography, Snapshot Saturday
Snapshot Saturday In Sidney, Richland County, Montana staff put up with dust, cold and noise 5 years ago to get this gorgeous architectural finished project. Gold leaf adorns much of the detail, marble, and rich wood surround workers now, and they told us, they like...
by Mary Tastad | Apr 26, 2018 | journal, North Dakota history, Places to go, Then and now, Things To Do
Hard Labor More than 100 years ago, local farmers and ranchers hired on to dig by hand the Cartwright Tunnel for the Great Northern Railroad. It was part of its Montana Eastern Railway, an unfinished rail line that ran west of here in Montana. Using dynamite to...
by Mary Tastad | Apr 23, 2018 | journal, Mild-mannered Explorers, outdoors, Places to go, Things To Do
Elkhorn Ranch, a refuge for a soon-to-be President How to get to the Elkhorn Ranch Off the beaten path – The Elkhorn Ranch exactly where Teddy Roosevelt wanted to be in 1883 – and so the Elkhorn Ranch became his refuge. He’d just suffered a string of losses,...
