Thursday, September 15, 2011 Bozeman, Montana

6:50 am

The temperature is +3 C, with a high predicted of +28 C.

3:00 PM Life

After breakfast at a Perkin's restaurant in Bozeman we drove out to see the twin gold mining sites of Nevada City and Virginia City. They were a surprise as both places were full of interesting original buildings from the 1860's gold rushes.

Here are a few photos of Nevada City:

Yes, this is exactly what it looks like, a two-story outhouse!

Now for a few photos of Virginia City, which are slightly more modern:

We then returned to Bozeman where we visited a bookstore and did a little geocaching.

Here is a list of the 3 books I bought:

• "The Solace of Open Spaces" (1985) by Gretel Ehrlich.
  • The title caught my eye. It describes life on the Wyoming plains.
• "Winter" (1991) by Rick Bass.
  • This looks to be similar to the first book, but with a Montana focus. Both books were written about 20 years ago and the fact they are still in print suggests they are worthwhile.
• "The Heart of the Monster" (2010) by Rick Bass & David James Duncan.
  • This is a recent book by the same author as the previous book. This is about "Why the Pacific Northwest & Northern Rockies Must Not Become an ExxonMobil Conduit to the Alberta Tar Sands". Should be very interesting.

4:00 PM Geocaching

Early this morning I put the coordinates into my GPS unit for one cache in the downtown area of Bozeman with the intent to search for it when I visited a nearby bookstore. It turned out to be near the Bozeman library and about 8 blocks from the bookstore. The search itself turned out to be a quick park and grab.

• GC2GERG - Book it

The Montana 600 led me to the correct lamp post making this an easy find.



GeeCee with container

 



GeeCee's travelling companion returning container to hiding place

 

9:00 PM Literature

I have begun reading one of the books I bought today: "The Solace of Open Spaces" by Gretel Ehrlich.