August 16, 2023

For nearly a year and a half I blogged every day, then suddenly stopped. I was simply burned out. We were not traveling and it was almost the same thing day after day. In early June we started traveling again but for some reason I had no desire to write about all the interesting places we were seeing, but today I got bit by the blogging bug once again. Unfortunately because of my hiatus you missed our travels in west Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and some of Montana.

This is our third time spending time in the historic mining town of Butte and each time has been different. Its history is one of mining cumulating in one of the richest copper deposits found, though now it is just a mammoth hole in the ground, 1 mile long, a half mile wide and over a quarter mile deep. From the viewing stand it is too huge to show it all.

The color of the water looks so inviting, just like a Venus Fly Trap looks to an insect.

Photos don’t due justice to its size. Can you see the building at the edge of the water just in from the left side of the image?

It’s going to take a while to get back into the blogging groove. That’s all for today.