Frontier Life
Happy Holidays from My Family To Yours
Here’s our first Johnson Family Holiday Video Blog/Greeting. Our 7-year-old and 9-year-old had much to do with the production, direction and editing of this vlog. It was a lot of fun to make, despite the 1 degree, frosty and foggy temperature!
From our family out on the frontier of Wyoming to you and yours: We wish [...]
If You Seek Fulfillment as well as a Paycheck, Look No Further than This Job Post
I live on the frontier of Wyoming. I love this state because of its natural beauty, ruggedness, big open spaces, wild animals, its authentic Western heritage, and the fact there are only 530,000 of us lucky enough to live here. It’s lonely, and I like it that way.
The following is an actual job opening that [...]
Let Gary Vaynerchuk Pump You Up
Gary Vaynerchuk, of @garyvee and Wine Library TV fame, is a living example and inspiration to all of us who want to live our passion.
I read a ton of books, usually several at once. When I got my copy of Gary’s new book, everything else moved to the bottom of the pile and remained there [...]
Help Wanted: A (Super Duper) Manny
My husband, Jerry, goes in for a lumbar fusion operation this week. The poor guy just had a 4-level neck fusion three months ago.
I knew he was a super hero when I married him. He’s a marathoner and ultra endurance athlete whose dream is to do the Hawaii Ironman. He’s also a Physical Education teacher. [...]
Sometimes You Can’t Get the Girl out of the Frontier
I travel quite a bit to attend and present at various tourism-related conferences throughout the country.
The headline for this comes from a saying I like to use in my tourism conference presentation introductions: “You can take the frontier out of the girl but (often) you can’t take the girl out of the frontier.”
I love living [...]
Deep Creek & Ice Lakes hike is epic
As I write this blog post, it’s Oct. 4 and we’ve had 18 inches of snow fall on my hometown of Lander, Wyoming.
Boy, I’m sure glad I was able to do the epic hike to Deep Creek and Ice Lakes in the southern Wind River Range a week ago. Last Saturday, on Sept. 26, [...]
Jackass Pass & Cirque of the Towers
Yesterday it became vividly clear to me, once again, why I love living in Lander, Wyoming.
I was on an epic day hike that’s in my back yard in Wyoming. Along with a dear friend, Kathy Browning (also of Lander), I hiked the Big Sandy Lake trail over Jackass Pass to Lonesome Lake and the Cirque [...]
A Wyoming morning
Thanks to friend, photographer Mark Gocke, for letting me share this photo. It shows why I live in Wyoming.
(BTW, my husband and I are going to (hopefully) stand on top of the Grand Teton in August.)
Why Camping is My Favorite Family Activity
Jerry and I have three sons, Wolf, 9, Hayden, 7 and Fin, 2. My favorite thing to do with the family is camping. I just love it. It’s a way to get close to nature, get dirty, find things to do that are not artificial or expensive, and typically the best campgrounds/campsites don’t have cell [...]
A shout out from the Frontier
Hello from out on the frontier, in the Old West, in Lander, WY. The U.S. Census Bureau actually classifies Wyoming as “frontier†(not even “rural!”)
Frontier means, “land outside the region of existing settlements.â€
Um, yep, that pretty much describes where I live and work.
In the early 20th Century, a famous American historian named Frederick Jackson Turner, [...]
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