Monthly Archives: July 2018

Missoula.

Posted on July 28, 2018 by polloplayer

I’ve been trying to get to Missoula for decades. It was worth the wait. Now I will always remember the Clark Fork River. And the train whistle that sounds just often enough to remind you that it was the Northern … Continue reading →

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Sun Valley to Missoula

Posted on July 21, 2018 by polloplayer

What I love about a road trip: the heart, already full from a place just discovered, quickens in anticipation of another place, new, just up the highway a bit. We downed our morning coffee and headed north out of Sun … Continue reading →

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Friends in high places: Sun Valley

Posted on July 14, 2018 by polloplayer

I don’t know if it was the altitude or the company or something in the water. Whatever it was, I’ll have more, please: our week in Sun Valley positively glowed. Maybe it was all the flowers. Everywhere we looked! Or … Continue reading →

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Paying respects.

Posted on July 7, 2018 by polloplayer

I haven’t read every word Ernest Hemingway wrote, but I’ve read enough to know that he was the real deal. A king among knaves, on the page at least. In my flippant teens and twenties, I fatuously waved him aside … Continue reading →

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