Well, today was our second full day of driving and boy was it rough. We had a little later start than anticipated, surprise, surprise. The drive was nearly as uneventful as it was beautiful. We passed through some of the prettiest river valleys, and the sheer size of the mountains was a frightful display of God’s awesome power.
We passed through Bozeman this afternoon. Dad tried to get a picture of it for Brad, but didn’t stop until we were just out of Bozeman and so that kind of fell a little flat.
We ate lunch in the car again, and our all natural peanut butter was being spread a little thin, so nearly forty-five minutes from Glacier (where we are staying tonight) we stopped at a Walmart. Too bad it wasn’t a real Walmart. They had about two aisles of food and about fifty aisles of anything but food. We did get the peanut butter, but ran out of luck with the fruit and turkey. Looks like we’ll have to stick with all that hydrogenated oil stuff for a couple more days.
Nearing supper time we hit some road troubles.
The interstate we were on abruptly turned into a rasty little dirt road which was very close to being a one laner at certain points. It turns out mapquest had failed to mention the construction they were doing on interstate 90. With this slight delay we made it to supper in (starts with a P, right outside glacier) where we stopped at this Mexican joint overlooking Flat Head Lake. It really was a beautiful lake and upon leaving it we noticed a pretty little rainbow.
Tomorrow night we are camping. Hopefully it won’t be too cold!
This is a view outside our room at Glacier National Park. This is lake McDonald and it was the most beautiful view I have ever seen. The inn was great, and we took a run through the woods in morning. Everyone had a good night sleep.
When we awoke, we packed the van up and headed down the road. They had not cleared the Road to the Sun highway all the way through, so we too a hike to A
valanch Lake, which was very long. We got very muddy but had a great time. The deer would come right up to you on the trails, but we saw no bears. Joshua and I were ready with our Bear pepper spray, however. We had a blast.
We then took a trip around the park to the Many Glacier area. It was a beautiful drive, but took a long time. We made it to our campsite and took some time setting up. We ended up about a mile from where Kenny and Phyllis are going to stay next week. They are going to love it! The campsite had the most beautif
ul mountains surrounding it, and we got some video of it. There was a picnic area down the way that was closed because of frequent bear sightings, but we did not see or hear any. Mitch and Joshua did well, but Chris, Cory and I were very cold. Mr. Heater did not help much. The heat went striaght up and out of our tent...
Then we took a hike in Johnston Canyon. It was a great hike and I recommend Ken and Phyllis taking this hike. It was pretty easy, and the lower falls were great! The upper falls were kind of a dissapointment so I would not recommend them.
