Comfort Inn Great Falls

... elk and deer here. Many clear lakes and ponds and rivers and the sky is so blue and then there are the mountains in the foreground. Beauty everywhere you turn. This went on all the way south through Alberta and some of the road was so straight that you could see 10 miles ahead of you with the hills and checking the minutes it took to get to that far hill down the road. We stayed last night at a Lions Centenial RV park in ...

Two years ago when we did a house swap we spent a month fishing the Missouri river , so when we came back into town we stopped at the old house, filled the water tanks , and headed for a small campsite on the river, only known by the locals. We spent two nights here, Brent fished the river with a friend, and Jo knitted socks.

Also our computer died and we feel we are missing our right arm, hence the short entries

After working until midnight most days this week , including Wednesday night, the harvesters were rained out on Thursday by noon . They are near finished here in Montana but need a few more good harvest days. A wedding at the end of the month in Lethbridge is adding an additional layer of urgency for some of the crew. I spent Friday morning assembling a fibre art piece, preparing it for quilting. The picnic table was the ...

Don finally slowed down enough today that when he tried to watch a movie he fell asleep. We walked a bit after supper and I had to share my Montana sunset with you. There is a small park just outside the fence of the park. Although we are located on a noisy corner where two main roads come together it is shady and handy to downtown.

Today I travelled with one of the two 'supper wagons' into the remote areas east and north of Great Falls, towards the Canadian border. I've been hearing about this area since the beginning of the trip and how one of the more remote farms is a breeding ground for rattlesnakes. In previous years they have actually seen nests or balls of rattlesnakes. The land is beautiful and I had an opportunity to talk to one of the farmers and asked her about the remoteness. Cathy's ...

... fish hatchery. We also got to see the world's shortest river. The Roe River is only 201 feet long.

We just came back from a final short meeting before we leave Great Falls tomorrow morning. We were told to keep our mouths shut at customs when crossing into Canada, to only answer what is asked, and not to offer any information. Oh, God, with Art at the wheel, are we in trouble! Send bail money via Wells Fargo.

... from snow covered mountains, (in Banff, Canada) to dry weather through south Alberta, to in fact a balmy spring day as we crossed the border back into the U.S. - we were down to shorts and t-shirts, and then finally managed to find snow again as we came into the National Park/Forest in Montana. As we passed through Calgary there were 2 ...

... writing something that some of you will call insane. So here is why I've been driving the past 3 days on faith. There have been certain "side-effects" to the creams and lotions that Einav sold me. They make my eyesight blurry. So stop using them you must be saying. Right? There's a reason here and I know why this is so. I have FAITH! Last year when I did my Vision book I had a few other "wishes". I've talked about my Orange Shelby Mustang. I have a picture of one in my ...

... situation: it was both a beginning and an end. Anyway, enough of the history, you can find out more if wish using this link http://lewisandclark.state.mt.us/ which is relevant to Montana - and you can actually buy copies of their journals, how neat is that? One thing that has impressed us on our travels is the quality of the exhibits in these "interpretive centres" and the ...

... way to Marias Pass; the builders threw a box car from the train and called it a station. Shelby himself is believed to have said that Shelby wouldn't amount to much. He was wrong; Shelby grew into a distribution for a trade center for 50 miles in every direction. In the late 1890s the town was a cowboy town with hardly any fences or homesteaders. By 1913 there were 5,000 entries for land in just one office. Homesteaders flooded into the area. The ...