Now that the holiday weekend is over, we’re finally able to get into a campground in Glacier. All the campgrounds in the park were officially closed on September 4th, except one called Apgar.
We took our motorcycle trip around the Going-to-the-Sun road. It’s an interesting road that was completed in 1932 and cuts through the middle of the park. Glacier is actually Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park; it’s a combined effort with Canada. We packed a lunch in our saddle bags (some of the wonderful smoked salmon that we’d bought off the back of some guys’ truck in Puget Sound) and rode 135 miles that day. It took us about 5 hours to complete the circle, from West Glacier to East Glacier and back around. The last hour was really windy and I was ready to get off when we finally got back to camp.
We took our motorcycle trip around the Going-to-the-Sun road. It’s an interesting road that was completed in 1932 and cuts through the middle of the park. Glacier is actually Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park; it’s a combined effort with Canada. We packed a lunch in our saddle bags (some of the wonderful smoked salmon that we’d bought off the back of some guys’ truck in Puget Sound) and rode 135 miles that day. It took us about 5 hours to complete the circle, from West Glacier to East Glacier and back around. The last hour was really windy and I was ready to get off when we finally got back to camp.
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Bighorn sheep near East Glacier.
The next day, we took a shorter ride (70 miles) to Whitefish for lunch. It’s another really nice town with another beautiful lake. It seems there’s a lake around every corner in Montana.
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Can you see the ski area above Whitefish lake?
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Les thought it would be fun to park in front of the "No Parking" sign at Hungry Horse Dam, on our ride back from Whitefish.
Driving south to Missoula, we drove by Flathead Lake, which is the largest lake west of the Rockies. Its 28 miles long and 15 miles wide! All of these lakes have private property along their shore, with some really nice houses with lawns that go right down to the water. Beautiful!
Our mail finally caught up with us in Missoula! It’s a months worth of mail and what a pile it was, even without any catalogs. It took me a couple of days to get through it.
We’ve been traveling the back roads from Missoula through Helena (Hwy 12) and down to Billings. There are more people in the Bay Area than in the whole state of Montana.
Tonight we’re in the Billings Super Wal-Mart (bless you Sam Walton), experiencing a thunderstorm and tomorrow we’ll head south into Wyoming. Going to Cody!
Driving south to Missoula, we drove by Flathead Lake, which is the largest lake west of the Rockies. Its 28 miles long and 15 miles wide! All of these lakes have private property along their shore, with some really nice houses with lawns that go right down to the water. Beautiful!
Our mail finally caught up with us in Missoula! It’s a months worth of mail and what a pile it was, even without any catalogs. It took me a couple of days to get through it.
We’ve been traveling the back roads from Missoula through Helena (Hwy 12) and down to Billings. There are more people in the Bay Area than in the whole state of Montana.
Tonight we’re in the Billings Super Wal-Mart (bless you Sam Walton), experiencing a thunderstorm and tomorrow we’ll head south into Wyoming. Going to Cody!
The End of the Rainbow!
Well, now your getting into Jeff's hunting country. We've hunted out of Sherdian, Buffalo and Kaycee. I think is was out of Sherdian where there is Custer's last stand memorial park, pretty interesting. And we've been to the riverfront park in Spokane with Kris and her family. I know driving in Spokane was no fun, hope you parked the coach.
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