Father, daughter stride through wilderness - Bismarck Tribune
This has been the summer of Lewis and Clark for me. I’ve traveled three times to Calgary, Alberta, to serve as an adviser to the new HBO miniseries on Lewis and Clark. HBO and Playtone (Tom Hanks’ company) are creating a six-part dramatic miniseries about the Lewis and Clark Expedition to be aired in the spring of 2017. The director John Curran is a remarkable man whose principal purpose is to get the Lewis and... Then I traveled to Montana and Idaho for my annual Lewis and Clark cultural tour. My travel partner, Becky, and I gather some 30 adventurers from around the United States to canoe through the White Cliffs section of the Missouri River, then to hike along the Lolo Trail west of Missoula just inside today’s Idaho. The Montana-Idaho tour has a kind of “same time next year” feel. I get a physical checkup once a year in Bismarck, but my heart and soul checkup is always out on the Lewis and Clark trail, under the Milky Way, in moon shadow and moon shine, with a few of my oldest and dearest friends, and with a couple of dozen... I can literally feel the burdens of my life slipping off of my upper back and into the all-forgiving Missouri River. By day three, I feel human again. Source: bismarcktribune.com
