Sunday, August 28, 2022

Bye bye Glacier National Park

August 28 – Time to say goodbye to Glacier National Park and St. Mary’s, MT.  It was pretty cold out this morning but we still got going by 9.  We drive down the mountains and of course, we hit bad roads.  Looks like road work was in the works but being Sunday no one was working.  It reminded us of being back in Canada and Alaska.  Gravel and dirt, but with cows thrown in!  There is a lot of open grazing here so there were cows on the roads.  We couldn’t understand why the cows were in some areas that had no grass or shrubbery, just gravel and black dirt.  It was several miles before we finally left the cows behind. 

The drive today was a gradual downhill ride and then we were in huge flat valleys.  There was not much traffic at all.  The scenery was beautiful but very different.  There were lots of golden fields of hay as far as the eye could see.  The number of homes was sparse. 

We had stopped for lunch at a rest area along the way and really took our time today as we could not check in to the campground until 3.  We arrived right on time.  We have a nice pull thru site for the night.  Once we got parked we went into Helena to Walmart and did major grocery shopping.  There were some non-grocery items on the list as well so we had a cart full!  We now have a good supply of meat, veggies and fruits!

We had some of our rotisserie chicken for dinner with a salad and fresh corn on the cob that was so sweet.  So we are definitely good on groceries for a while!  For dessert we had some huckleberry ice cream.

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