Blogs from Montana, United States, North America - page 78

Okay, I really just wanted to add another pic. John made it to the airport and should be on his way home. I could take this opportunity to tell the "real story" of the past 10 days since John is gone and Jim is loading the car. However, whatever happens in Yellowstone, stays in Yellowstone. Farewell Dear John (pic attached). Next update will be from Idaho. Susan... read more

08/27/07 Yellowstone National Park. Very spectacular. We had to wait until John was on his way before we talked about how beautiful this place is. He should be leaving shortly (will be 08/28/07 before we are in Bozeman and can be online; currently typing this from our campsite, Tower Campground). We have had two good hikes with great views of the Yellowstone River. Great weather (mid 70s during the day, low 40s at night). We tend to be on the lookout for bison all the time and today we were trying to decide if there were bison ahead of us or just boulders. They were giant boulders or as Jim called them “glacier poop.” Of course we didn’t notice the huge bison to our right since we were so focused on the boulders ahead of us. ... read more

We continued our journey on Route 90 until we got to Missoula, MT and we headed north on Route 93. We passed a tent town that housed all the out-of-state firefighters that were fighting all the wildfires in the area. We stopped in Polson to visit my cousin Marsha. She gave us walnuts from her walnut tree and plums from her plum tree. We arrived in beautiful Glacier National Park in the early afternoon. We got a campsite in Sprague Campground, right on lake MacDonald. Being in bear country again, we had to bear-proof. This is a hassle, but the scenery makes it worthwhile. We could not have a campfire due to the extremely dry conditions in the area. So we watched a movie on the computer and called it a night. ... read more

Passing through North Dakota on our way to Montana, we stopped at a small hamlet called Rugby. Rugby has been declared the "exact geographical center of north america" and proudly displays this title with a big stone monuement. It also happens to be the site of a little restaurant that sells toe jam (a delightful jam made of nearly every fruit under the sun...yum!). And then...a couple of days drive later...we arrived in Glacier National Park. Glacier is HUGE...and is an International Peace Park because it is joined with Canada as well. It's the home of enormous "U" shaped valleys, gigantic Rocky Mountains, and of course, glaciers. The Rockies here weren't just caused by the continental divide...they were carved out by the glaciers 10,000 years ago as well. The glaciers melted into the large and immensely ... read more

My very good friends Clark and Tiffany came to Great Falls to celebrate the marriage of one of Clark's old army buddies. My other friend Perkins (who was living with me for a chunk of the summer) and I decided to fly up there and pay them a visit. We grabbed some lunch at a pizza joint and went to visit the bird pond. There were so many ducks and birds the water was murky with duck droppings! Then we grabbed some frozen yogurt and made for back for Bozeman. It is always worth the drive to see good peeps, but it was exceptionally nice since it had been over a year that I had seen Clark.... read more