Lexi Goforth

Lexi Goforth

Lexi lives in a truck camper down by the river.

Gypsy Arcade

So many oddities come hand-in-hand with a ghost town.  They are sieve for oddity: anything normal comes and goes but the strange curiosities lodge in the town to stay. In the case of Virginia City, that means a Nickelodeon that still charges a nickel to watch Bawdy films of scandalous women show their ankles and get your fortune told.

Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center

Skulls, furs, and sketches of new animals were brought back with the Corps of Discovery at the Lewis And Clark Interpretive Center

Great Falls was an unexpected challenge to the Lewis & Clark and the Corps of Discovery.  At first, encountering a waterfall was an exciting moment.  It meant that the Corps of Discovery—tasked with following the Missouri River and (hopefully) discovering a passage to the Pacific Ocean—was on the right route, according to intelligence collected from local tribes.

Cracker Lake Trail

View of cracker lake from a rock outcropping.

Cracker Lake Trail is a 12 mile hike deep into Glacier National Park through grizzly territory. The 1,400 foot elevation gain may be less than half of what we experienced in Big Pine but is still considered "strenuous" by many hiking metrics. In the course of the hike, we encountered waterfalls, glaciers, a wide range of ecosystems, a bull moose, and a grizzly bear.