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EE fun Location: the outskirts of Spokane our very important car adapter for the mac simply would not work after the abuse of sitting in a drawer all summer. it turns out one of the rather flimsy wires that attached the power cord to the transformer had broken.
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Quick fix Location: the outskirts of Spokane It was nothing a bit of duct tape wouldn't fix until we got our grubby paws on a soldering iron.
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A new state Location: the WA-MO border We cross into Montana, the home of the forest fires.
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A fire Location: Western Montana we'd heard about them on the news, but here is an authentic Montana forest fire.
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smoky horizon Location: western Montana the air was fogged by smoke from all the fires...
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smoking hill Location: western Montana We caught the tail end of a fire right by the highway. Wow.
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The dynamic duo visit YARBAL Location: Yellowstone National park It really is purty.
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Death and regrowth Location: Yellowstone There was a really big forest fire in yellowstone in '89 and another in the mid-ninties (I think). Huge tracts in the park were covered with burnt down trees, but this really wasn't depressing because the ground was covered with thousands of baby pines growing up to replace them. The whole cyclical, natural aura got us both into a very Zen-like state and helped us apprecaite what was to come.
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Death and regrowth Location: Yellowstone There was a really big forest fire in yellowstone in '89 and another in the mid-ninties (I think). Huge tracts in the park were covered with burnt down trees, but this really wasn't depressing because the ground was covered with thousands of baby pines growing up to replace them. The whole cyclical, natural aura got us both into a very Zen-like state and helped us apprecaite what was to come.
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Wildlife Location: Yellowstone There were some amazingly tame elk wandering around the road, very uninterested in human onlookers.
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An(n) Elk Location: Yellowstone This one's for you, mom. ; )
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Boiling ground Location: Yellowstone As Julie promised, the geyser basin didn't always smell great, but it was cool looking. The mud was boiling. I'm serious. We needed some digital video action for this whole park.
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Sulfur and Water and Wood Location: Yellowstone Bryan gets all artistic, 'n stuff.