Super 8 Kalispell Glacier Intl

... one more party tonight, then we're off in the morning for Salt Lake City, our first 10 hour leg.
But tonight we get to eat off Linda's 10# rainbow she snuck out and caught without us. DANG her hide. She really is our hero though--the Fish Dancer extraordinaire.
Rick's cooking a gourmet feast, the divas are gathering--husbands beware!

... on Lake MacDonald at a closed picnic area, we continued on to the Apgar campground where we settled in for two nights (typical cookie cutter lots) since it was the only open west side spot. Although in retrospect, while touring a ten-plus year forest fire area in the park and looping back through the Flathead National Forest, we found a beautiful campground with sites on the banks of the Flathead River. In the US, National Forests ...

Kalispell is actually starting to feel like home away from home! The mechanic ran into delays, truck won't be ready till Wednesday, so we are catching up with laundry, grocery shopping, haircuts, and resting. Wondering what we'll find when we open up the trailer after this long week. Need to get re-organized before we head west again.

... us a loaner, we will leave the camper at the dealership for the week and we will head towards Canada in this red Corolla. Drive through Banff and Jasper? Try to find V's distant cousin that we've been wanting to meet for over 25 years? Looking on the map, they live waaayy up north in British Columbia. What the heck! Maybe we'll just go for it!

Lake Koocanusa - Kootenai National Forest - Driving through forests
older than time, glimpsing sparkling rivers through the trees and
suddenly coming upon the lake, which is very long and narrow. Clear
water, clear air, lots of space, friendly towns. Then on through Eureka and towards Whitefish, where we hope to find a nice ...

Short stop at Belgrade, on the road, then up to this beautiful lake. The Flathead River's various forks crossed our paths several times while in Montana. Boating/resort towns all along the lake front, quiet beaches, tall forests of pine and birch. Very relaxing!

... created by the glaciers as they melt away they take some of the stone with them so they are always changing. This is also part of the Rocky Mountain Range and they go for as far as you can see.

We knew there had been a fire since it was evident but did not realize it was over 100,000 acres and was back in 2003. However, that was only 10% of the park since it is over 1 million acres. The Cedar and ever green ...

... A nice walk in the cool, crisp morning air revived Nitchie and other than being a bit lethargic, she seems to have weathered the ordeal just fine. When we went to bed last night, she crawled out from under the dining table and staggered into her crate in the bedroom where she slept all night.

Wendell announced that my birthday was officially over and thought I should make another round of migas for our breakfast. That’s the way ...

... STOP! A bison in the middle of the road! Matt squeals, then muffles, shhhhhhh. Let's don't scare him away! Oh yeah, as if we could scare a two-ton bison? Annoy him, maybe. I get all the cameras in my lap. The video. Shhhhh. Then snap some stills. This detainment we don't mind at all. The bison edges off the road, to graze. And we move on. Oh! Look, there are two! This is grand, just bison, hills, and Matt and me. I drive along the graveled road, ten miles per hour, tops, we ...

... and she showed me around some of the most awe-inspiring mountain scenery surely anywhere on earth has to offer, Glacier National Park, massive towering, savage, jagged peaks, the home to eagles, mountain goats and grizzly bears, of which I was lucky enough to get a sighting of, from a safe distance while we were hiking in the park. The ...