Montana Guide for Tourist
GEOGRAPHY Not surprisingly, given its size, Montana is a state of many distinct regions. In general, residents divide the state into two halves: western Montana, with its rugged mountains …
Category: Vacations
Traveling to Swan Lake
Clearwater Crossing to Bigfork ESTIMATED LENGTH: 89 miles Highlights: Seeley Lake, Blackfoot-Clearwater Wildlife Management Area, Salmon Lake, Clearwater Canoe Trail, Seeley Lake Game Preserve, Holland Lake Falls, Old Squeezer …
MAP OF RUBY VALLEY MONTANA
Step Way Back in Time on the Montana Dinosaur Trail Human history has its Olduvai Gorge. Dinosaur history has its Montana. And it all comes into sharp focus on …
SHENZHEN LOCATION MAP
LOCAL CUSTOMS Chinese Names Chinese names are a complex subject so let’s take the simple approach. Chinese names have two parts. There are a relatively small number of surnames …
Chapel Hill
From Somerset Place, we drive to Creswell on Thirty Foot Canal Road, alongside a canal dug by slave labor for the rice plantation. This canal was used to drain …
CIRCLING THE CAPE FEAR RIVER
At first impression, this route hardly qualifies as a backroad. After all, Wilmington, which comprises a good portion of the route, is the state’s ninth-largest city and its metropolitan …
NORTH CAROLINA MAP
MYSTERIOUS CAROLINA BAYS SCATTERED ALL OVER THE MID-ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN are mysteries. Some half million of them. Most are located in the Carolinas, hence the name Carolina bays. Bay …
TOXAWAY FALLS
TOXAWAY FALLS HAS PERHAPS the most storied history of any waterfall in North Carolina. The name Toxaway in its many spellings and variances has several Cherokee applications, among them …
TRAVEL TO NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS
Art Loeb Trail provides access to the summit of Black Balsam Knob in Pisgah National Forest. The mountain offers panoramic views. The sun peeks through the fog during a …
BROWN MOUNTAIN LIGHTS ON THE COAST
The people wonder what happened to the Lost Colony, but in the North Carolina mountains, the most celebrated mystery is the Brown Mountain Lights. As mysteries go, this is …