I didn't think my trip could improve, but it keep getting better every day. I left Jackson and drove up to the Grand Teton National Park. The weather has been unbelievable so far. There was hardly a cloud in the sky and it was an amazing day to be in the park. The setting of being in the valley and looking up at these huge mountains gives you perspective of just how tiny we really are. I stopped and did most of the main sights in the park. I would love to spend more time hiking and exploring in this park. [View Full Entry]

---

---

Little Big Horn Battlefield, Montana LOL Ok, I have to go through this, we left on the 3rd, ended up in Seattle and Lucy took us on a tour of the industrial area! Scary, then we went through Spokane right into Coeur d'Alene,Idaho. It took us 2 days to get through Montana, but we stopped at The battle of the Little Big Horn Memorial Park. When we got to the gates to pay, she asked if we had a treaty card, I gave her my status card and we got in free. We spent quite a while there, drove the [View Full Entry]

---

---

We spent the day today crossing Glacier National park via the famous Going to the Sun Highway. Thanks to all of you who recommended that we drive it from east to west - the views were amazing. However, the weather wasn't. When we left this morning it was in the mid-40's - with the raging wind, it felt more like the 30's. However, your intrepid travelers soldiered on - we weren't going to be deterred from our hiking and touring plans - or at least so we thought. Going in the eastern entrance of Glacier from St. Mary's you quickly get [View Full Entry]

---

---

Day 8. Monday September 7, 2009 The photo is of our campsite in Hardin, before the wind storm arrived. I was jawing with an older couple from Canada. The sharp eyed woman reached in her RV and pushed a button to close her awning. Right after it was closed and stowed, a gust of wind tore the awning from the Class A RV two slots down, where it fluttered atop the roof. Fortunately, I had rolled our awning up and stowed it about an hour before. That wind storm whipped through with alacrity, and lasted most of the night. It was [View Full Entry]

---

---

We had a great weekend with the Dehlendorf’s and all the Lincoln boys. All the guys went out fishing yesterday…with the results not subject for public discussion. When Scott caught a fish and took a photo he had to put it next to his foot so we even had some sense of how big…or little…it was. Lots of laughs, lots of fun. Sunday, Sept. 6 We started out from Bozeman on our continuing tour of Montana, on our way to Glacier National Park. Up through Helena to Great Falls, then north on a two lane road through the most god-forsaken country [View Full Entry]

---

---

Missoula We traveled from Seattle to Missoula, looooooong drive. Washington is like the prairies, goes on forever. We stopped in Ellensburg, went shopping at the Goodwill LOL We are living LARGE lol Natalie found some brand new underwear still in the plastic lol showed them to me and I bought a couple too lol She was tickled to have found them, we went there to find some bowls so we could have brekky in the rooms lol getting into the swing of traveling :) Also we had our usual Saturday in Missoula. We found an Ihop, it was great! dare [View Full Entry]

---

---

We left Missoula today after 2 PM Nat had business. It is our 3rd day on the road! Nat had planned for us to stay at Best Westerns on our stops, but the first night we got a motel room, we found them to be much cheaper!! We have saved $72 combined and we have been shopping too lol awesome. Before we left today I googled Devil's Tower lol and it said 3 hrs & 3 min. LOL 5 + hrs later we're in Billings and no sign of Devil's Tower lol ok, maybe tomorrow lol When we were leaving Missoula, [View Full Entry]

---

---

Day 7. Sunday September 6, 2009 Well, here we are in Hardin, yet. This is our last day of avoiding the holiday weekend traffic, which didn’t really materialize. Yesterday afternoon, two big rigs from Texas pulled in with a show of dust and Midland accent. They weren’t the type to cook out doors like we do. So they went into town for supper while we enjoyed grillin’ fare. Yesterday, we went to see the Little Bighorn Battlefield which is about fifteen miles from our campground. It serves as a National Monument and a National cemetery. There is a little bit of [View Full Entry]

---

---

Day 6. Saturday September 5, 2009 Thank goodness it cooled down enough during last night to allow some restful sleep, ‘cept for the trains wailin’ off in the distance, from time to time. It weren’t that bad, if you don’t mind the sound of a wailing train during the night when you have an intention of uninterrupted sleep. I seem to have a lifetime wish to never hear the sound of a train during the night, and to be honest, during the day as well. Oh, sure, there was a time that I was more tolerant of trains; like when I [View Full Entry]

---

---

Day 5. Friday September 4, 2009 We have arrived at a KOA campground in Hardin. The trail boss called ahead a couple of days ago and made reservations for the holiday weekend. She didn’t want to get caught up short without a place to stay over the holiday weekend. On the road this morning, we saw a terrible wreck of a truck and a tow trailer on the other side of the causeway. We passed by within minutes after it happened, and not much was recognizable, ‘cept the tow trailer was upside down, crumpled and gushing what looked like water from [View Full Entry]

---

---