It's rule of physics....

That objects in motion tend to stay in motion...or as us ahhhh, older people say ' moss don't grow on a rolling stone '. So for me and MPeasy we were off to celebrate my 73rd year on the planet earth with a road trip to eastern Montana by way of North Dakota . Three days, 2 nights , I gained 4 pounds 1,000 miles of potato chips, licorice and ice cream stops...and the Chinese Buffet in Miles City didn't help. But the trip was to experience the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential library that opened in Medora North Dakota on the 4th of July a few weeks back. It was Way More than we expected and would tell anybody driving across North Dakota to not pass it up, in fact the parking lot had cars from all over our country. Here's a pic of me helping my new buddy Ted with signing into law legislation creating the Forest Service.

And of course being a boat guy I decided I should help out with the trip down the Amazon's River of Doubt which because of us is now the Roosevelt River .

The architecture is stunning. You drive up a mountain and carved into the mountain is the library . At first is doesn't look like much as it fits the natural landscape but boy howdy, it's impressive. All the windows or port hole overlook the badlands . You can walk along the top that's planted with the native flora . You can ask the President questions and he'll answer with a jovial sense of humor...it's amazing and they are still building another wing to the 500 million $ already spent. MP liked the birds, plenty of birds .

Here's the view from the top...

So old Teddy was an amazing guy and you certainly feel that as you learn more about him...I liked the part where he was giving a speech from a train whistle stop during a campaign and was shot by a wanna be assassin . He asked the crowd as he continued to withhold the applause so he'd get done sooner  and " it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose...

It took us 2 hours to tour the library. So without letting the wonder of surprise out of the bag for you and knowing a lot of you will get there I'll just say this....As we drove across the Badlands back to Montana we had a lot of " how'd they do THAT'  kind of conversations.

And. It was 103 degrees when we toured the Little Bighorn Battlefield. Being a history buff I knew the story of how the soldiers tried to gain the high ground and how the fight was a rolling skirmish. The markers tell the story of how the troops stood together and even back to back and fell together as the helped their buddies....it's a solemn place.

Now if George hadn't left one of these babies behind the story might have ended different....here's the one Teddy had @ San Juan Hill .

Many a time we've driven by a place called Pompei's Pillar, named after Sacagawea's baby son. On Lewis and Clark's return trip in 1806 Lewis went down the Missouri and Clark down the Yellowstone . The Pillar is a towering rock that looks a bit out of place where Indians would leave messages and Clark scratched his name and year...It's basically a landmark full of graffiti...of course over 200 year old graffiti. I was a bit underwhelmed...Of course Park Rangers have the inscription protected from vandals and this particular historical site might lead the nation in ' don't do this ' signs.

inspiring eh ? It was kinda pretty from the Pillar. The walkways looked to need some repair and...ah well it's just a weird place.

I hope you can read it because all the signs didn't stop one hearty Alaskan from from adding his John Henry....atta boy.

As far as signage goes I think a simple ' don't do anything here ' or maybe a ' don't have fun here '  or maybe a ' ya wanna get arrested ' sign would be preferred over this one at the local lake .

So I got my deadline done...Trying to do at least, at least one edition of Mile 14 every month. If you come back I'll have another new song posted right here on this beautiful Yamaha Trans Acoustic guitar that MP bought me on my birthday at Hell Creek Music in Glendive Montana....Steve and his people there are fantastic, it's another must stop place . Especially if you wanna get close to a full sized replica of a fossil Tyrannosaurus Rex without...errrrrr....going to a State Park .