Exploring coast to coast during the pandemic
October 12, 2020 Kootenai Falls is now my favorite geological place in all of Montana! In addition to having some of the most beautiful features, it is also a sacred place for the Kootenai tribe. Scout and I spent about 3 hours exploring the rocky beaches, folds, and steep paths (if you can call them…
I don’t think that there will ever be a computer game about his travels, nor will he let me put a big red hat on him like Carmen Sandiego, but he has certainly been along miles and miles of road throughout western Montana in the last three weeks. While I’ve been balancing work and adventures,…
Here we are. We’ve spent 2.5 weeks in Bigfork thus far, settling into a routine, and exploring our temporary home. For the first 9 days, smoke from the wildfires in Washington and Idaho blanketed the area. When we arrived, it was incredibly dry and the area had received very little rain all summer. Only last…
Clearly I have a lyrical pattern going that I promise was not planned because the title of this post now sounds like a country song. However, I did find that cruising through the West Virginia mountains to John Denver was particularly fitting. But as I write this, it’s day 14 out of 14 of our…
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Hi, I’m Beta and my pup is Scout. I’ve been a science teacher and administrator for 10 years, and Scout has been by my side for 7 of those. This year, we’re doing things a little differently, packing up, and heading west from Maine to Montana. Read along to hear about our travels and experiences in the time of corona!
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Sabbatical with Scout