{"id":1154,"date":"2008-06-24T08:18:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T15:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2008-06-24T12:11:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T19:11:39","slug":"we-found-it-the-end-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"We Found It! The End Of the Road!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1155\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1155\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1155\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1155\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02727x.jpg?fit=750%2C502&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"750,502\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Roland K Smith&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The end of the road is just up this little dirt track. I knew the end had to be around here somewhere! We&#039;re taking a short vacation in northwestern Montana which is as rural as can be.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;This image is licensed under a Creative commons Attribution 2.5 License&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The End of the Road!&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The End of the Road!\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;The end of the road is just up this little dirt track. I knew the end had to be around here somewhere! We&amp;#8217;re taking a short vacation in northwestern Montana which is as rural as can be.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The End of the Road&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02727x.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02727x.jpg?fit=604%2C404&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1155\" style=\"float:left;border:blue 2px solid;margin-right:8px;margin-bottom:2px;\" title=\"The End of the Road!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02727x.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The End of the Road\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02727x.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02727x.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc02727x.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday we drove up to the <a title=\"Ross Creek Cedars link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.libbymt.com\/areaattractions\/rosscreekcedars.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ross Creek Cedars<\/a>, an old-growth cedar forest that somehow escaped the devastating wild fires of 1910. As we approached the area, we were greeted with the sign on the left. Because I have already written about being &#8220;<a title=\"www.rnsmith.com link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1147\" target=\"_blank\">near the end of the road<\/a>,&#8221; I was happy to actually find that there was an end of the road!<\/p>\n<p>The cedars were quite spectacular and were discovered in the late 1950&#8217;s by a young forest ranger marking trees for logging. It&#8217;s since been made into a lovely place for families to visit and walk through. I took a whole bunch of pictures which eventually will be put in the picture album (the pictures are now there!)<\/p>\n<p>Today is a quiet day and we&#8217;re staying around the area. Tomorrow we&#8217;re headed to <a title=\"Coeur d'Alene link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coeurdalene.org\/index.asp?PageId=343\" target=\"_blank\">Coeur d&#8217;Alene<\/a> and the lake, Thursday and Friday over to <a title=\"Kallisepell Montana link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kalispell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kallispell<\/a> and <a title=\"Waterton Glacier National Park link\" href=\"http:\/\/glacier.areaparks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Waterton-Glacier National Peace Park<\/a>. Saturday we&#8217;ll proceed on our own way around the <a title=\"Selkill International Loop link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.selkirkloop.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Selkirk International Loop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I need to find a place that sells AA batteries. That sounds like a good purpose for the day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we drove up to the Ross Creek Cedars, an old-growth cedar forest that somehow escaped the devastating wild fires of 1910. As we approached the area, we were greeted with the sign on the left. Because I have already written about being &#8220;near the end of the road,&#8221; I was happy to actually find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We Found It! The End Of the Road!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-iC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}