Home sweet home

It’s always good to get back home to Montana.

I can’t understand why anyone would want to live anywhere else.

Sure, it was -22 the morning after we got back from Seattle, but it was a dry cold.

The lush green Pacific Northwest offers a pleasant respite from winter in Montana, however it comes with a price: swarms of people everywhere, and bumper-to-bumper traffic. Let them keep their fresh oysters, Space Needle, and Seahawks. I’ll take Montana any day.

I still honk when I return from a trip and see a “Welcome to Montana” sign just like I did last week after cresting Lookout Pass. Traffic was l...