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Location: mi | This fall will be our 20 year anniversary and my husband is insistant that we take a good vacation. Was hoping the tax return would send us to Hawaii but no go on that. So I am looking for some place we can go that would not be more then say $2500 total.
Hubby is big into hunting a fishing and really wants to see the North west like Montana area and always talks about seeing Mt Rushmore. As much as I love my horses I am really not an outdoor girl and will be bored out of my mind staring out the window of a cabin the woods for a week. Or hiking through the woods looking for bear.
So I was wondering maybe about some sort of guided tours or something maybe on horse back that at least I would be enjoying a ride while staring off into the woods looking for bears. :) or do you guys from these areas have any places that you would recommend. thinking in the late september early october time frame.
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | Try Cody Wyo.The museum there is fantastic. It will take you all day. Then go to Red Lodge Montana. The trip over the pass is breathtaking. Then head for Jackson Wy thru Yellow Stone. |
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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | If he's big into fishing look at Devils Lake, ND. You could make a loop if you really wanted to of going out to MT, SD and ND. How long are you thinking and when are you thinking? |
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Location: mi | Thanks for the info. Keep it coming. He is not big into fishing. hunting and trapping are his thing. He doesn't sit still long enough to fish. I am not sure how he sits in a blind long enough to hunt.
Anyways I am thinking the end of september or the first couple weeks of October. and I was hoping to drive from Michigan and do it in like 10 days. so 2 weekends and a only a week off work. But haven't really mapped anything out yet to see if that is actually doable. I do know it was a 21 hour drive from my house to Bismarck ND. So was figuring the driving would be done over both weekend and would have most of the week to sight see and what not.
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Location: Idaho | ajs2002 - 2014-03-04 4:08 AM
Thanks for the info. Keep it coming. He is not big into fishing. hunting and trapping are his thing. He doesn't sit still long enough to fish. I am not sure how he sits in a blind long enough to hunt.
Anyways I am thinking the end of september or the first couple weeks of October. and I was hoping to drive from Michigan and do it in like 10 days. so 2 weekends and a only a week off work. But haven't really mapped anything out yet to see if that is actually doable. I do know it was a 21 hour drive from my house to Bismarck ND. So was figuring the driving would be done over both weekend and would have most of the week to sight see and what not.
If you wait until October, there is a pretty decent chance if snow in the Dakotas/Montana/wyo.
I'm in ND and sure wouldn't drive 21 hours just to see Bismark. Deadwood, Mt Rushmore area is beautiful though. |
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Location: Idaho | Jethro - 2014-03-04 7:44 AM
ajs2002 - 2014-03-04 4:08 AM
Thanks for the info. Keep it coming. He is not big into fishing. hunting and trapping are his thing. He doesn't sit still long enough to fish. I am not sure how he sits in a blind long enough to hunt.
Anyways I am thinking the end of september or the first couple weeks of October. and I was hoping to drive from Michigan and do it in like 10 days. so 2 weekends and a only a week off work. But haven't really mapped anything out yet to see if that is actually doable. I do know it was a 21 hour drive from my house to Bismarck ND. So was figuring the driving would be done over both weekend and would have most of the week to sight see and what not.
If you wait until October, there is a pretty decent chance if snow in the Dakotas/Montana/wyo.
I'm in ND and sure wouldn't drive 21 hours just to see Bismark. Deadwood, Mt Rushmore area is beautiful though.
And now I see you are coming from MI, you might not care about snow! |
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Location: mi | Jethro - 2014-03-04 10:45 AM Jethro - 2014-03-04 7:44 AM ajs2002 - 2014-03-04 4:08 AM Thanks for the info. Keep it coming. He is not big into fishing. hunting and trapping are his thing. He doesn't sit still long enough to fish. I am not sure how he sits in a blind long enough to hunt.
Anyways I am thinking the end of september or the first couple weeks of October. and I was hoping to drive from Michigan and do it in like 10 days. so 2 weekends and a only a week off work. But haven't really mapped anything out yet to see if that is actually doable. I do know it was a 21 hour drive from my house to Bismarck ND. So was figuring the driving would be done over both weekend and would have most of the week to sight see and what not.
If you wait until October, there is a pretty decent chance if snow in the Dakotas/Montana/wyo. I'm in ND and sure wouldn't drive 21 hours just to see Bismark. Deadwood, Mt Rushmore area is beautiful though.
Are you freaking kidding me!!! after this winter I hope to never see snow again. Ok late September it is!! :) And yeah I was in Bismarck to buy a horse. Nice horse not sure he was worth the drive in Jan. in the subzero temps, in the snow, on the black ice. |
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| Im not really sure what there is on the State side of the border, but if you come up to Canada you could go to Banff and do zip lining, a gondola tour, heli tour, and stay in a nice hotel and get some pampering for the girly time. Im not big into hiking either, but theres lots to do without hiking, while meeting both of your needs. Rafter 6 ranch also does trail rides, and if you're both decent riders I believe you can take off with a guide and go on a better ride than just what the regular dudes go on. If you made a road trip out of it and stayed in Banff in the middle of the week it would be substancially cheaper than a weekend. |
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Location: mi | It looks like the Rafter 6 Ranch has closed down. And I also would need to get a passport (and yes I am 20 miles from Sarnia and don't have a passport) so it looks like I am staying the states.
However based on what you guys have given me so far. I think a road trip is doable maybe hitting Mt. Rushmore and then heading into Wyoming and Montana to sight see. Are there any good rodeo's or any festivals that would be cool to hit while we are out and about. I am right now thinking either the last week of September or the first week of October.
And also we have a nice little reliable Ford Focus that gets 40 miles to the gallon. Other then the fact that the pick up would be more comfy to be driving for 10 hours a day is there any reason not to take the car? |
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Location: Right Where I'm Meant To Be :) | Is there a resort you can go to that you can get spa treatments while your hubby goes fishing or what? Somewhere you could do that for a day, then sightsee some mutual attractions a day and go on a horseback tour or a ranch for a day (all while staying at the resort)? I'm not from there so I don't have suggestions of names but that's the angel I'd work |
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Location: mi | I am not sure. I am all for driving and sight seeing. I just didn't want to book a cabin in the woods that the only thing to do every day was go on a hike. A cabin at a ranch would work for me though. Or just hoteling it and hopping from one town to the next sight seeing and such is good too.
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| Yellowstone is amazing!! There's horseback rides offered there as well. We went last summer and spent three days there. The last night got a cabin in Yellowstone. Then we headed to Mt Rushmore!! It was so much fun. We decided we would love to move to Cody WY. Someday!! |
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Location: mi | gunsmoke - 2014-03-05 8:26 AM
Yellowstone is amazing!! There's horseback rides offered there as well. We went last summer and spent three days there. The last night got a cabin in Yellowstone. Then we headed to Mt Rushmore!! It was so much fun. We decided we would love to move to Cody WY. Someday!!
Thats sounds like what we are looking to do. Can you send me any links or names I can google as to where you stayed. |
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Location: MT | Fall is the best time of year in Montana!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Whitney, NE | The rapid city area has lots to do and see, and there are several outfitters within an hour or two of there. Maybe one day he could do a guided prairie dog hunt and you can have a spa day. The other days can be spent together sight seeing deadwood, sturgis, mt Rushmore, crazy horse monument etc. |
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