Glacier Continued...

- 9/10/08 -

It's interesting to go back and read the blog and how much different the entries are written post-haste vs in the heat of the moment. Right now I sit comfortably indoors as it pours outside in New Jersey. Yes I know a bit confusing...but the miracle of modern conveniences, the airplane, has brought me back home in 5 hours what took 3 weeks to travel by land.

Two weddings in two weekends brought me home for a brief visit. Taylor is at a friend of a friend's house outside Seattle and Chuck is eagerly waiting my return at Sea-Tac. So while home and with ample internet access I am catching up the blog with what I recall of the adventures. The tenor and emotion is a bit more detached as the tale is told with the passing of time...but perhaps you are getting a broader picture of it all...who knows? Just rambling.

Glacier - Day 3

We spent the day close to "home", just went a bit down the road to hike a trail by Lake McDonald. Tried to make it up to another lake that way but after a few hours and hitting mosquitos that couldn't have cared less about the Deep Woods Off we had showered in, a warning of bear "scat" down one trail from some fellow hikers, we turned around.

Lake McDonald - Glacier National Park

The rest of the afternoon passed relaxing by the lake, soaking in some peace, playing a little frisbee and then we went back to camp for a fantastic fire (thanks to the super dry wood from the place across the park) and excellent dinner. A great way to end this segment of the trip. Glacier was unbelievable, I'm going to vote my favorite place so far...

Westward Bound...

The next morning we took off and headed west, drove through some remote part of Montana and back through the pan-handle of Idaho. The drive on I-90 through the panhandle of Idaho is gorgeous. The road follows along a river there and we had an awesome lunch spot in LoLo National Forest watching the fisherman float down the river.

We stopped in Cour D'Alene, the largest city I think we had been to since Cheyenne for gas and encountered one of the more colorful moments of the trip.

It sounds harmless enough, a man and a woman doing some yard work on the edge of the gas station property, with their small dog standing guard. Really not much unique about that right? Well a few more details....

The woman was wearing, I'm not kidding a flourescent green bikini (top and bottom) pulling weeds in the middle of the city - no where near the water. The man was pretty hippy looking. But their dog had on a, I'm pretty confident in this, black and white polka dot tutu.


The photos don't do the scene justice, trust me, it was funny. Not something you expect to see when you pull up to a gas station off the highway. After a week of driving through some pretty rural areas we were just at the end of sanity and took endless amusement from the scene.

I'll leave Washington as the next posting, the last state on the journey so far...

Cheers!
Kelly