A Mother, a Daughter, and Montana’s Crow Fair I have planned entire vacations around pow wows; flights booked, hotels reserved, itineraries built around a single weekend of drumbeats and dust. It’s an odd confession from someone whose family tree is rooted almost entirely in Western Europe. But hey, I’m as entitled to a quirky obsession…
Taking Refuge in the Cypress-Tupelo Swamp | Travel With Spirit Growing up on the wide-open plains of Montana, I first learned about swamps in elementary school. In my imagination, they were shadowy places filled with drifting mist, lurking alligators and the sort of restless spirits that belonged in Southern folklore. To a child raised beneath…
Somewhere between a museum, a fever dream, and a love letter to the open road, lies the most gloriously excessive private collection in America. Just west of Houston, Texas, I turned onto a small country lane. The place looked downright sedate. Even the old windmill seemed sleepy, turning languidly despite an impending storm. I lurched…
“Cleiv?” “Nope.” “Collins or Lodgegrass?” “Nope. Those are gone, too. But there’s one in Wyola that still has the logo on the north side of the elevator,” Bruce Selyem says. We’re talking grain elevators. Those unique buildings that once dominated the country skyline across the Great Plains of the US and Canada – up to 30,000 of them…