Blogs from Shelby, Montana, United States, North America

Today we set out to visit a park that we have visited four times before. Glacier National Park. We left the hotel in Shelby at 8 AM and 59 degrees. It promised to be a chilly day in the park, but did not turn out that way at all. At Logan Pass it was 65 degrees. The sun was shining all day and the air was clear and bright. The drive to the park took us almost two hours. On the west side of the park is a town called Kalispell, and it is relatively close to the west entrance. But on the east side, there really is nothing much closer than Shelby. So we made the drive, through more construction and all, and got there around 10 AM. We saw a lot of farms with ... read more

Geo: 48.5053, -111.856Today was a long day of driving with nothing on our agenda but getting to Shelby, Montana. It began at 8 AM and 73 degrees, and the temperatures quickly rose to 81 and stayed there all day long. Today we drove through miles and miles of prairie. I struggled to find something, anything, that would inspire me to take photos, because in the prairie, there is little that provides a focal point to make a photo interesting. It is just a lot of flat land that goes on for miles and miles. I was anxious to see what my new camera would do, but this was not the day. Understand, I am not saying that the ride did not have beautiful vistas to see, because it did. Like yesterday, we drove through farmlands, with ... read more