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Published: July 20th 2009
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July 17 & 18 West Yellowstone,MT to Galcier National Park, MT
Hi to all. We miss you tremendously but our having the time of our lives. We haven't had cell phone or internet service for almost 3 days so we are going to try to catch up. I just spent about an hour writing this blog and then lost internet reception and lost my whole thing. It's 12:00 midnight here so that means 3 am your time,
We woke up Thurday morning after spending the nightin the Brandin' Irom Motel in West Yellowstone. We got a late start as I had to do a telephone interview for a job(the second of the week-more on that later!). Our plan was toget to The gates of The Mountain for the 3pm tour but we missed the boat! So we headed up about 20 miles up the road to camp for the night. We camped at our first Bureau of Land Mangement Campground. This was new to us and is quite an experience. All the spots are first come first served at $10 a night. Not a bad deal. People can get pretty vigilant about staking out their spots.We got there and the only
spot left was a parking lot handicapped space next to the bathroom. Since we had no idea where else to go we opted for tht and since it was after 5:00 we were alowed to take the handicapped spot. We ended up having a great time! We were steps away from Lake Holter and had a beaultiful . We met the people next to us and we hung out with them all night. What great people-a mom, dad, and son from Townsend, MT. A shout out to Jennifer, Travis, and Austin if you're out there!We played washers, drank beer and offered anybody going to the bathroom to join us for a drink. We had quite a few accept and a couple who ended up staying for hours and we talked until 2am! Just like Thursday nite on White Star!
Up the next morning to go back to The Gates of the Mountain. We missed the 9:00 boat since we stayed up so late but made the 11:00 tour. It was pretty neat. Thanks to my sister Sue for recommending we stop there. The boat took us down the Missour River. We have found that doing the "tourist thing" and taking
thetour is sometimes the best way. You learn so much.Our guide was great. He sounded just like Ty Pennington and he grew up in the area. The tour took us part of the same route that Lewis and Clark took. We sawa mature bald eagle and three babies and we saw the Mann Gulch Fire Memerial Site which was pretty sobering.When the boat is coming up the river it looks like the Mountains are opening up a gate and letting you in.
We left Gates of the Mountains and made it all the way to Glacier National Park. WE narrowly missed hitting a deer who decided to race us and then bolt in front of the RV. Phil's driving and God;s grace saved us!We stayed at the KOA at the foothiils of the mountains. What specatucular scenery! We hung out for the night and called it an early bedtime.
The next morning we got up to an amazing site. We got on the scooter and headed into a little area called St. Mary to look at the shops and look around. When we got back Phil got in a run anda dip in the pool and hot tub. We then
boarded the "Red Bus Tour" to go to the park. Vehicles longer than 21 ft can't go up"Going To The Sun Road" so we took the vintage 1930's touring bus with the open top. Once again we had a great guide. whenwe got to the top at Logan's Pass and the Continental Divide we had a 30 minute stop and most of the people went to the visitor's center. We decided to take the trail acroos the road. We started tracking a Big Horn Sheep that someone had told us was on the trail ahead of us. we finally saw him up ahead of us heading straight towards some people who were walking towards him. They had to scramble a couple of feet up the rocks to get out of his way as there was a big cliff on the other edge of the trail! We saw some unbelievable galciers and mountains and on the way down we saw a black bear-HUGE! only a couple of yards off the road with one idiot out of his car taking pictures. When we got back to the campsight we cooked some chicken, took a walk and Phil had his Saturday night campfire.
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Sherri
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Who is that Bear?
Is it Yogi or could it be Boo Boo? I imagine you are breathing in some great fresh air far away from the smog of the big city! Love the hats . . . "could have been a cowboy, could have learned to rope and ride" What beautiful sights. I had no idea our country was so magnificent. Now "America the Beautiful" means a whole lot m oe than just a song. Love y'all.