Blogs from Montana, United States, North America - page 65

Hello everyone! This is the first entry of this blogging thing Cass and I want to do to keep in touch with everyone. I'm sure all of you know that we are heading to South Korea to teach English. We both are playing a little waiting game right now to hear from the Korean government about visa issuance numbers. We are heading there through a program called Reach To Teach that has been super healpful with each of our million and one questions. At this stage of the process, RTT has found both of us jobs in the Gyeonggi Province in a town named Yeoju. We are finding more and more about the area and country everyday. Everything we hear, either from books of friends or internet or whatever, the more excited we are and anxious ... read more

Yesterday, we ended up not leaving until late in the day. After purchasing one extension for the trailer hitch, Richard discovered that we needed yet another extension. Arghhhh! Off to Burnaby Hitch for the needed part while Kayla packed the truck. We can't believe everything fit, including way too many clothes. When we finally hit the road, it was about 4:00 pm, but we drove on into the evening and stayed the night at Stemwinder Provincial Park near Hedley, right on the Similkameen River. What a sound to fall asleep to! Today we started off early by Kayla's standards - a very civilized 9:00 am. Drove through Osoyoos, dumped all the fruit and veg only to find out we could have taken everything with us. South of the border there wasn't a fruit stand or market ... read more

Afetr the worst nights sleep on this trip we got ready for the day with a "homemade"breakfast from the supplies we were carrying and readied to leave the Whisling Swan motel.Well we were late off the road and we thought any port in a storm is better than sleeping in the car or motoring miles more to try and find a motel. We headed off with Helena the states capital in our mind.First was Browning the heart of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.What a desolate place but the locals seemed to be making th best they could.We called intot the Indian Trading Post for a look around but things were prety expensive so decided to push on.The country was pretty barren with few animals and little in the way of farms or people.We ontinued south on MT ... read more

A great nights sleep at EconoInn and we were ready for breakfast and a day of scenery that would hopefully be the highlight of this part of the road trip.At breakfast we chatted with a couple from Iowa who were also on a road trip but to Portland.Don't think they really knew where NZ was but never mind we told them how beautiful the country was.In the car park as I was packing the car a Vietnam vet asked me how the car was going and a 15min chat ensued about Kiwis he had served with in 'Nam.Interesting guy who said he was affected by Agent Orange and couldnt get a job. We headed off towards Whitefish a ski resort north of Kalispell and took in the "town beach"lifeguard tower and all.Strange for a beach so ... read more

Woke up to rain. Decided to pick up some groceries. Things are cheaper here than at home. Beauty supplies like shampoo and face creams at Wal-Mart are half of what we pay at home. I stock up! We are passing through another little town in Montana called Joliet. Whoa! Stop! Go back! Charles Ringer Studio and Gallery has metal sculptures like I've never seen before. Gas pump hobos with their wine bottle, warming their hand at the burning barrel. How funny is that! Going through the Beartooth pass, we get as high as 12,000 feet. Lots of switchbacks up the mountain, and narrow roads. At the peak, we see the pointy peak off in the distance that the pass is named for. Once we get through the pass and check into our motel, we have enough ... read more