Category: Montana
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Day 301 – St. Xavier, Montana – “My lands are where my dead lie buried.”
I’m sitting in a small hunting cabin in St. Xavier, Montana in the middle of the Crow reservation, population: 83. We dipped down off of I90 at Billings across a dry landscape and flat farmlands. We hadn’t given it much thought. An AirBnB in a convenient location with room to park the Rialta and…
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Day 288 to 291 – Driving from Glacier to Yellowstone
[Mile 980 to 1,348] Canola fields in Montana. As we set out across Montana the canola fields were spectacularly in bloom. The brightest 50’s kitchen yellow tucked under a fluffy cloud sky with mountains all around in the distance. That night we stayed in a hotel in Missoula to do some laundry and…
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Day 285 – Glacier National Park
[Mile 630 to 980] When I was young I took a road trip around the country with a friend, living in his Honda Prelude, we’d open our paper atlas each day, look for a place that sounded cool, then we’d drive there, all summer. We drove from New Orleans to Canada, all the…
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Day 283 – Driving from Spokane to Glacier National Park
[Mile 335 to 630] We started the day in Spokane from our campground. I made a quick detour to grab a photo of the giant milk-jug shaped building in town then we drove all the way through Idaho (stopping briefly in Wallace) to Montana and to our new campground in Cabin City Forest…