Today’s journey landed us in Douglas, WY, the first place we are revisiting since leaving the Bay Area. We are staying with M K and Mme D’s cabin deep in the surrounding hills. Funny enough, at purchase time, they didn’t know the property came with two houses, both of which…

We left Rapid City for Wind Cave National Park late morning to walk the cave and then participate in a ceremony led by Mme S, one of the Grandmothers. The truth is I’ve never even heard of the place. Honestly, I didn’t know of the Black Hills either, the most…

From what I’m told, diesel engines use pressure to ignite the fuel. That pressure must be powerful, right? Obviously enough to blow head gaskets. How to avoid that unpleasantness? It seems the temperature and oil pressure gauges vary with intensity and are thus good clues as to what is the…

Last night, Lakota from the area met us at our campground. Today we are traveling together to meet with a Storyteller in Rosebud, SD. The back roads took us through an amalgamation of the grass ocean and Badlands National Park. Yes! In the ever enchanting and random way of nature…