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 Butte Trolley Tour a Great Summer Ride
Posted Sunday, November 16 @ 05:00:00 PST by Brendan
One of the easiest attractions to find in Butte, Montana, is the trolley tour offered by the chamber of commerce. Sure it's fun and a good value, but it's also expertly hosted and a great way to get a glimpse of all the other in-town attractions so you can decide for yourself what it is you want to see more of, and even where you might want to bed down for the night. |
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 Ye Old Virginia City Tourist Photos By Far the Coolest
Posted Sunday, November 09 @ 05:00:00 PST by Dominic
If ever you make your way to the historic segments of Virginia/Nevada Cities of Montana, there are a few things you have to do. You have to make like a cowboy, you have to buy some candy, and you simply must get your picture taken in finest old-timey fashion in the oldest, best novelty photo shop in the west (or anywhere else). |
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 Cowboy Surprise Shocks Birthday Brother
Posted Monday, October 27 @ 16:00:00 PST by Brendan
I’ve heard bad things about summer brother birthdays, and I believe all these no-guests--showing-up rumors because I have exactly such a brother in my own family. A couple years ago our parents sent out more than 2-dozen handwritten invitations before school let out asking parents to bring their youngster friends, and not one of them even had the decency to RSVP saying they weren’t going to come.* That’s probably why my parents take his summer birthday so seriously, and this was another really great gem for him. |
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 Ghost Musicians Please Nevada City Crowds
Posted Saturday, October 25 @ 02:00:00 PDT by Dominic
I’m not sure what sort of impression we’re trying to leave you guys with about Nevada City, but in my mind it was a lot of fun, even if a bit out of the way. Though there were some real tourist leeches in town, it’s a city hit hard by the exploding (combusting?) gas prices over the summer, and it really is a town well worth your visit… that is, if you can handle the haunted piano hall. |
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 Remlinger Halloween Farm Once Again Rocks the Season
Posted Friday, October 24 @ 02:00:00 PDT by Dominic
As we do each year around this time, we head out to our favorite Halloween fun farm in the near’s to Seattle. We call it Remlinger Farms, but probably only because that’s what they call it too. The difference this year isn’t just that we’re a year bigger each, but that this time around it’s my turn to write the review de la festivities. |
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 Seattle’s Halloween Train Chuggas Its Choo-Choo on Horizon
Posted Thursday, October 23 @ 02:00:00 PDT by Brendan
It’s that time of year once again. Of all the seasons in all the months, I reluctantly admit (to you only, not to my family) that Halloween is my favorite, and there’s no better way to enjoy it than with a clever costume, trick-or-treating amongst generous adults, and by riding the fun-tastic rails of the Halloween Train offered up by the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie, Washington. |
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 Fire Engine Tour Barely Ok, Still Novel
Posted Wednesday, October 22 @ 02:00:00 PDT by Dominic
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I feel like I keep getting the worst assignments on the trip. Fine, fair enough, I’m the junior editor so I’ll write it up. Virginia City, Montana, is nothing but a tourist trap, and one that felt a pretty hard hit from the high gas costs this summer, what with being basically in the middle of nowhere. So this nowhere tour of nothing got hit hardest, and the real victim wasn’t the operator, who owns everything outright, but us poor tourists. |
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