My friend Sheri from Valdosta came to visit. (Thank you Sheri for making the trip I know it wasn't easy getting here or getting home!) After much deliberation we decided to do a whirlwind tour of Montana. I had yet to see Glacier National Park and Sheri had never been to Big Sky Country and wanted to see as much as possible.....that we did. Here's a shortened version of our itinerary:
Leave Red Lodge, Yellowstone National Park, Bozeman, Missoula, Glacier National Park, Helena, Chico Hot Springs, back to Red Lodge....all of this was accomplished in 5 days and 1500 miles. (Love my Subaru)
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link to all 367 pictures if you're interested. If not, what follows is an extreme Cliff Notes version.
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Our trip started in Yellowstone.....the baby bison were so cute I wanted to take them home with me.
Baby's Big Momma said no. | |
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| Sheri and I in front of one the many beautiful falls in Yellowstone...it was cold that day! |
After a quick dash through Yellowstone, including a stop at the Old Faithful site although we missed the actual eruption (Sheri said she could imagine it, I'm sure you can YouTube it), we headed to Bozeman. We started with yummy drinks at Plonk and then had a great dinner at Dave's Sushi. We did Sake Bombs in honor of my dad - he would have been proud. :)
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We stopped at the Museum of the Rockies on the way out of Bozeman the next day. GREAT museum.
The largest dinosaur exhibit this side of the Rockies (or something like that....it was big folks...lots of fossils.) |
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| Lucky us they had a special frog exhibit. Really, I was super excited. I thought these little guys looked like Yoda. |
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| They also have a 'living museum', very neat. People 'living' as if in the old days....it was lunch time and it smelled goooood. |
After Bozeman we scooted up to Missoula for the night before heading to Glacier National Park. Missoula seems like a great town, home to the University of Montana.
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| I had never seen this before....talk about strong guys, the current was moving! |
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Found this sign on the street and thought I'd give it a try.
Hope the people before and after me had better luck. |
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Beautiful Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park.
A stunning place....pictures don't do it justice. |
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| Sheri and I took a boat ride on Lake McDonald. I drove! |
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| Majestic! |
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| Although the weather didn't cooperate with us, we had a great time. |
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| We finally got to see a bear up close as we were leaving the park. |
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| Montana State Capitol in Helena. |
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| Although Sheri didn't get to go over the Beartooth Pass since it was still closed due to the obscene amounts of snow we received late in the season, we did take a partial drive the night before she left. (Wow, longest run-on sentence ever.) |
