Montana

This is one large spread out State!

When driving highway 2 from Williston, in North Dakota all the way past Libby

Into Idaho you are mostly on high plains

Most of the time there was no speed limit and

You drove as fast as you felt comfortable driving

Cut Bank is where I remember the landscape beginning to change and then it was dramatic

Once we spent the night in Cut Bank and had a water pump replaced on a car

Glacier National Park rises up in the far western part of this State

It is another of the incredible places that must be visited and we have more than once

We have camped at Manny Glacier where the bears are and we saw grizzlies there

We actually tent camped in a site where there had been a grizzly bear attack

Which had been the scene of a movie

We have taken the Going to the Sun Highway and

Yes we saw Mountain Goats up close and personal

Going to the Sun Highway is a most remarkable feat of engineering and a joy to drive and behold with wonderful views at every point

We white watered the Platte River in the National Park and that was fun

Glacier National Park is a place we pray and hope and want to return for another visit

We have also driven I-94 across the State in both directions

We have driven past Pompeys Pillar and taken pictures of this strange landmark

Just before we drove into Billings while our daughter Jamie was driving, she had a tire blow

out and we stayed in Billings for a night and purchased four new tires

Billings is where we have driven into Yellowstone National park many times

We have taken the Beartooth Highway and seen gypsies

Camped at the top with dogs as huge as a pony

Cooke City is a place to avoid unless you happen to live there

It is the most outrageously expensive tourist trap we have ever experienced yet the people were always nice to us

I will write about Yellowstone all by itself as this is another of Linda and my sacred places!

We picked up a grandson in Bozeman at the airport and

Took him for several days to Yellowstone.

We went to an older theatre in Missoula once and

I remember a flea market where guns were the big attraction near Kalispell

The Little Big Horn is just south of Billings on I-90 and is a special place to visit

I have often wondered how Custer could have picked such a beautiful place

For his famous battle

It simply doesn't look at all like what you see in the movies

In that there is a river among trees and it is green and lush

Once on a long Labor Day weekend we were driving back to North Dakota and

We took back roads into Montana from Wyoming

We ended up at an Indian School and Reservation after following the Yellowstone River and

it was a long but very pretty drive

St. Labre Indian School near Ashland is on the Rosebud Indian Reservation and we once

thought we might get a position there but was not to be

Montana for being so barren for so much of it and so far from everywhere

Is still a place we loved and would return to again

I guess the part of it that is not barren is so awesome

As to make you forget about everything else!