The West Coast!!!

***Miles travelled today: Alot and given we're so tired, we forgot to write it down

***Total Miles:

***States travelled through: Washington

West Coast - we're finally here......It feels like a lifetime ago that we started off on the East Coast - westward bound until we hit the Pacific Ocean and today, we've seen it. It feels a bit odd writing this as nearly three months ago, we set out on 'making one of those dreams people have' (that we shared); come alive and here we are, nearly at the end of realising it. I say it's 'odd' but in fact, I think what I'm really talking about is the surreal feeling of 'making this kind of dream real'. How many of us want to do things that we think are beyond our reality,beyond our infinite abilities; often 'magic-ing' them into our daily lives through the power of thought? How many of us place obstacles in the way of doing something really fun by excusing it as irresponsible or whimsical? Although I didn't share it, I'm remembering a question posed by a 10ry old girl whilst out riding on the Dude Ranch a few weeks ago. We were talking about the roadtrip and having goals and she asked me why we were travelling 'for such a long time'. I realised the simple answer was 'because we wanted to and to experience all that is different from what we know'. Her reply,"That sounds like fun, I wonder what dream I'll have." I hope she doesn't set any parameters and lives big.

.....I've learned that dreams and goals can be possible if we give ourselves permission to succeed.

OK, back to what I originally set out to say.Due to the fact that today's journey was spent mostly travelling with Linz doing all the driving, there are only a few photos and luckily,none where I'm amusing myself (like yesterday's photos of feet). The scenery was more interesting and unlike yesterday's infinite and repetitive flatness, today was spent driving through pine forests and mountains - so guide songs were few and antics from me, less. We stopped briefly at a fruit store for freshly picked cherries and apricots which were delicious (some farms we'd driven past were all advertising these) . Although we haven't heard much about the Fifa World Cup since USA bowed gracefully out of it; it was clear the proprietors of the stall were supporting both Germany and the Netherlands as they had their flags flying out at the front.

So that's it for today, lovely fruit and the Pacific Ocean which we are yet to explore before getting to Seattle.

Suz - we are in a little town called Bellingham (Mommy and Daddy will recognise the name as it's a bottle of wine) which is North of Seattle. We're here for a few days before making our way to Olympia National Park.

Seattle's on the Map...

***Miles travelled today: 286

***Total Miles: 7420

***States travelled through: Idaho and Washington

We left Bonners Ferry having decided our route westwards, yes...we keep going westwards... We wanted to try and get a significant amount of mileage behind us today so that we are able to explore the west-coast. We are currently in a town called Wenachee, just over a 100 miles from Seattle. Jay was really bored today as the passenger as can be seen by the photos. The travelling today was actually the 'flattest' and most desert-like that we have done throughout our whole journey. The first part of the journey elicited more 'bored' moans from Jay than at any other time this holiday. We stopped - yup - to use a restroom and to buy a drink... the favoured drinks of this holiday are Iced Coffee (French Vanilla flavour for me and Mocha for Jay) and of course, my Bud Light Lime, although not today whilst driving. So anyway, the place we stopped to buy the drinks did not have a restroom so she sent me next door to the garden centre where there was a sign on the door that proclaimed their 'restroom usage' was for 'customers only'. There was clearly nothing I wanted from the garden centre other than their restroom, so I went in and did my 'girly thing' and the young lad behind the counter took pity on me and allowed me to use it. As we were travelling across the desert, it was getting hotter and hotter - it actually got up to 99 degrees today - and we thought the heatwave was on the east-coast!!! Anyway, the heat was part of what was adding to the bored moans coming from Jay and so at this stop, she decided to change her attire... so armed with bikini top she sauntered into the garden centre saying to the young lad, as she twirled her bikini around her finger," I don't need to use the restroom but could I just...change into my bikini?" Without a moment's hesitation, the young lad said, "Yes Mam!" Jay came out feeling happier and cooler and I think she made the young lad's day, although I did point out that she was probably old enough to be his mother! Anyway, I had a much happier Jay in the car and just had to take a photograph as this was seriously 'relaxed' roadtripping.

What was really strange about the drive today was that the landscape as we are driving through Washington state, having been so flat and desert-like, in the last half hour of our journey today, suddenly it has become quite mountainous with canyons again. Who knows what tomorrow will bring...

Tomorrow we are travelling to a town north of Seattle where we are hoping to spend some time exploring the San Juan Islands. Let's hope for some more hot weather ...

Moving west again...

***Miles travelled today: 199

***Total miles travelled: 7134

***States travelled through today: Montana into Idaho, across the Pacific timeline

Thank goodness there wasn’t any bear outside our door today, not that there would be but there is always the possibility (Jay smiles at this). We have passed numerous campgrounds (Jay says they’re primitive) on our journeying through the park, all of which are full... we laugh when we see little canvas tents near signs that say, ‘Be Bear aware’ and dustbins which have been ‘bear-proofed’. I reckon it would be safer to sleep in the car than envisaging that the only thing keeping us from a bear - is a nylon tent.

We did a final drive up to Lake McDonald today hoping for some reflections today on the water but the conditions were not right. We left West Glacier and made our way further westwards into Northern Idaho. After debating the route with Jay, we are following a different route from the proposed one as Jay remains concerned about the mountain snow that is still about, so we have opted to do a route that is slightly more south as once again, we are only about twenty miles from the Canadian border.

Due to the fact that we needed to stop for a loo break (Jay says neither one of us are into ‘bushwees’), we found a saloon (yes, it was called a saloon) called the ‘Kicking Horse’... I have this ‘thing’ that we cannot just go and use the restroom but we have to buy a drink – which Jay says defeats the purpose as it generally goes without saying that I generally need another restroom an hour later. Jay took some brilliant pictures of the Kicking Horse saloon which was in the middle of nowhere or as the address read, ”Kicking Horse Saloon, Route 2, midway between Kalispell and Libby”.

Along our route we stopped at Kootenai Falls Park and took a walk down to the falls and their swinging bridge which Jay just had to run across (no hands).

We have once again gained another hour, we are now eight hours behind England, nine behind South Africa (we have not worked out Madeira and Japan yet). Once again we found ourselves on an Indian Reservation, the Kootenai Reservation and we have read some interesting information about their heritage. The hotel is really lovely and our room overlooks the Kootenai River. We took some time out down at the pool this afternoon before spending some time catching up with our blog and diary tonight.

Suzi - you need to look for a place called BONNERS FERRY...

We are almost on the west coast!!! We cannot quite believe that three weeks today we will be arriving home!!! There is still so much to do!!!

Still in Glacier...

We had so many photographs to choose from that we decided to add another five!!! (for entry for Tuesday 06.07.10)

A day in Glacier National Park...

This entry is for Tuesday 06 July...

***Miles travelled today: 147

***Total miles travelled: 6994

***States travelled through today: Montana

What a day in Glacier National Park!!!

After a hearty breakfast, we set off for an adventure filled day in the park... I hadn’t fully realised in my pre trip planning when looking at the information about Glacier National Park, that due to the mountains and glaciers there is actually only one road that actually runs through the park... there are roads around the edges of the park that allow you to come into the park but then you cannot actually travel too far by car... Glacier National park is clearly a paradise for hikers... damn!!! I forgot my boots!!! Mmm... Yeah!!! There is however one road that takes you from the western side to the eastern side... straight over the mountains... its called ‘Going-to-the-Sun’ Road... it’s about 50 miles long and is said to be one of the most scenic routes in the world... well, it was absolutely fantastic... once I got over my fear of actually driving with a sheer cliff down one side!!! The road is usually only open from mid June to Mid September, as at other times it is generally snow bound... and they are currently doing roadworks as they are redoing the whole road having started last year and it is a project that is said to last the next ten years!!!

At the beginning of our trip today we were extremely fortunate to see black bear as he decided to cross the road just in front of us... 20 seconds either way and we would have missed him...

...the road soon started to climb... it is clearly another feat of engineering... and similar to those roads we travelled in South Dakota there is no other reason for them other than pure scenery... the road had been closed a few weeks ago as they had had snow fall – of nearly 20 feet!!! They had to plough it all off the road... and the road has been opened to traffic for a few weeks... when we got up to the visitors centre at the top of Logan’s Pass, there was still up to six feet of snow in places... we have never seen snow like it!!! The ranger said that last week, there was double the amount of snow up there... and said that the snow is melting at about a foot a day!!! People up there were seriously decked out for snow!!!

At one point we were stopped for nearly 15 minutes due to the roadworks... what an amazing place to be in a traffic queue... I noticed that there were some rocks falling down, that were a bit too close to the car for my liking – and I looked up to where they were originating from, and there was this huge Bighorn Sheep, perched precariously on the top of the cliff, trying to make his way down!!!

There were some lovely waterfalls around and the peaks of the mountains were just amazing... we could see one of the glaciers in the distance, research indicates that the remaining 19 glaciers that are currently in the park will all have disappeared in another 20 years... but clearly the phenomenal landscapes that they have left behind will remain...

We made our way through to Many Glacier for lunch... and on the road back, as we decided to make our way over the ‘Going-to-the-Sun’ road again, but obviously in the opposite direction – we were fortunate enough to see not only black bear, but also a Grizzly bear with two very small cubs... the ranger advised that she lived up in the hills that were to the left of us and that every afternoon she bought her cubs down to the rivers edge looking for food, and she was then trying to get back across the road, but there were too many cars stopped, so after a while the ranger asked people to move on, to allow her the space to make her way home...

I don’t know which was worse, driving or being a passenger... but it was certainly a fantastic drive... we took different photos on the way back... including the ‘Weeping Wall’, which, was a sheer wall of granite, and due to the sheer amount of snow melting, it just pours off the wall and into the road!!!

Anyway we got back to our little cubby hole, after stopping at the Lake MacDonald lodge where we just went and sat and watched the lake...

I had decided that I wanted to go down to the lake later in the evening to take some photographs at sunset... Jay was really tired, so I ventured out on my own, and went into Apgar village, bought some post cards and sat by the side of the lake taking photos as the lighting in the sky kept on changing...

A Cubby hole in the woods!!!

This entry is for Monday 05 July...

***Miles travelled today: 233

***Total miles travelled: 6788

***States travelled through today: Montana

Okeedokes, so you’ll be ‘very surprised’ that today Will Be a very short entry, not only because we mostly travelled from A-B, in this case Polson to the West entrance of Glacier National Park; but also due to the fact that it’s me who’s writing and not Linz (I noticed that Linz’s entries are getting longer !)

Having left a very dreary and wet Polson today, we’d hoped that our journey away from the little town would bring sunshine, but the skies weren’t playing anymore despite heroic efforts by the sun to pour his sunshine down through cracks in the clouds. A journey that should only have taken a few hours, took some time and was filled with the sounds of Linz trying to teach me ‘Guide songs’ (I’m not sure if this made the journey longer or shorter but it was certainly amusing). She also explained how she got her badge for ‘orienteering’ despite not being able to read a compass (it’s called, the ‘Hook-Up-With-Someone-Who-Can’ process) but assured me she now can. I think it’s just lucky that our car does it for us digitally!

We finally arrived at West Glacier where we’re staying in a little ‘cubby-hole-sized-cabin’ in the middle of the woods (well, it actually has a restaurant and convenience store nearby- so civilised really; but Linz likes to scare herself and pretend there’s nothing there except us in the woods-her last words tonight being, ”What happens if we hear a bear outside?” I replied that I’d left a squeezy honey for it outside J and we’d be okay). Anyway, back to this supposedly ‘short entry for today’....

On the way to the cabin, we passed a few scenic lakes and walked down this path called ‘Goat Lick Pass’, a thoroughfare that promised 'White Mountain Goats’. Well, they weren’t standing there waiting for us to take a photo and so we had to go climbing a bit to find them (into that area that says, “Trespassers will be shot”) Well, we weren’t the first people to do this (clearly) as there was already a ‘route’ I could follow and there he was! ....The ol’ goat was hiding behind the trees (what is that say about ol’ goats hiding behind trees?)....Well, this one posed nicely and we got a good shot of its head. Other people had also followed and we all sat watching for a while as other goats made their way towards us, at which point I decided to join Linz on ‘safe ground’.

In going through the few photos we took, we figured this was today’s highlight and so this brings us to the end of this entry. It is an odd thing to say that we’re ‘tired and need a rest’ because we’re fortunate enough to be doing this; but the actuality is –we both need a good night’s sleep (bear or no bear) as we’ve been so busy.

We also saw a fantastic rainbow today - but by the time I got back to the 'cubby hole' for our camera, and back to where I could take a photo - half of it had faded!!!

Sus, remember you need to add a new sticker to your map- a place called WEST GLACIER (it’s at the corner of Glacier National Park; Montana/Canada).

Independence Day...

***Miles travelled today: Absolutely none!!!

***Total Miles:

***States travelled through: Still in Montana...

So this morning started off with various failed attempts to talk to family back home... the further into the mountains we are heading the more temperamental internet and wi-fi connections are becoming!!! Uploading to the blog is taking numerous attempts... but we are persevering... and the place that we are staying just outside Glacier National Park for two days, when we leave here tomorrow doesn't even have the internet!!!

...anyway, after a lovely breakfast, we headed into the town of Polson, just a few minutes walk up the road to watch the Independence Day parade - no matter what town we found ourselves in for this day, there would no doubt have been a parade... there were lots of people out on the streets watching the parade... which was very community orientated... the weather held out this morning, although was a bit over cast... on getting back to the hotel Jay was adamant that she was going to sit out by the pool, although she lasted less than an hour becuase although we had decided to take a few days rest, and sit by the pool, the weather has had other plans... and clearly sitting at the pool was rather chilly this afternoon!!!

Anyway - whilst Jay was at the pool I decided to do some research... thank goodness for the laptop... one of the best sayings from this holiday has been, "We'll Google it!!!" If we have been driving along, or reading a paper or in a store and wondered what something might be, we have looked it up in the evening... even going so far as having a list going during the day and writing down various issues that we needed to look up!!!

Well, I have been interested in the fact that where we are currently is part of an Indian Reservation... however there are a significant number of non Native Americans who clearly live here... at the parade this morning we were surprised to see very few Native Americans, and nothing in the parade reflected their culture or community... well, in my research I discovered that this town of Polson, although on an Indian reservation is actually 78% White and 16% Native American... and I'm not quite sure why... although some of the information that I have found suggests that if non Native Americans were living here prior to the land being made a reservation, they stayed, and the tribal leaders are only able to buy the land back as and when it becomes available...

We have just been out for supper, and asked our waitress about the fact that whilst at the parade we saw nothing referencing Native Americans, and she said that there had been a Pow Wow at a town about an hour away, and that the Native Americans were there... we asked if this happens every year and she said that it did... but reiterated that there was no segregation...

... anyway, this was all very interesting to us...

we had planned to go out and see the fire works later on, but it looks like rain... and so we decided against it...

...we are on the move again tomorrow... actually going into our 10th week... we cannot quite believe how close we are to our trip coming to an end... we have had and continue to have such an amazing time...

...as noted earlier, unless we are able to find a wi-fi place for the next few days there may be a few days we will need to catch up on later in the week... although I'm sure that there will be wi-fi somewhere!!!

Lazy dayz...

***Miles travelled today: 92

***Total Miles: 6555

***States travelled through: Still in Montana

We left Missoula rather leisurely this morning... stopping at the 'Walmart' as we need to sort out our suitcases over the next few weeks travelling prior to getting rid of the car... and we needed to purchase an extra suitcase!!! We just know how much I love 'Walmart', but we were able to do a quick visit this morning!!!

Our travels today have taken us Northwards... we are staying at Flathead Lake which is actually on the Flathead Indian Reservation. We were hoping to simply stop and do nothing but lie by the pool... unfortunately today's weather was not 'pool' weather... We went for a bit of a drive around the lake this afternoon in search of somewhere to have a picnic lunch... sometimes when the weather is not fantastic... we actually have enough space in our big car to have our picnic!!! We ventured down a little lane called 'Pop's Place', which took us right down to the waters edge... clearly directed there by my Pops!!! It was wonderfully quiet and not another person in sight...

We have simply spent the evening relaxing and catching up with our journal...

Tomorrow is Independence day, and there is a parade scheduled for the town that we are staying in... it's ironic, and not planned that we would be on an Indian Reservation for Independence day...

It's really interesting that Native American history is not hidden from the public... and everywhere we have been there are museums and information relating to the experiences of the various tribes... this does not detract from the severity of the past, but it helps non-Native Americans with very little understanding and awareness to better understand their culture and experiences...

...We are also intrigued about the quilting within the Native American Culture... we had assumed that it was something predominantly within the Amish culture and yet it is also very intrinsic in the Native American culture....

Big Sky country...

***Miles travelled today: 342

***Total Miles:

***States travelled through: Montana

I have banished Jay from the blog today as her entries seem to go on forever... see what happens when I fall asleep early!!!

Once again today we have put some serious miles on the clock...

We decided to go into Yellowstone again this morning, to make our way northwards to where the hot springs are - at a place called Mammoth... well, we have seen postcards and photos of the terraces from the calcium deposits that are made from the springs, so we went in search of the terraces that are on all the postcards... but when we found it - it looked very different... the calcium terraces are really odd, they are like folds of white all layered on top of each other and in some places the springs continue to run and the water pours down the terraces... well, the terraces that we went off in search of were totally dry, as the underground spring has changed direction... Yellowstone is amazing in terms of the activity that must be constantly going on under the ground... things that we don't even see or seldom contemplate!!!

As I have not blogged for the past few days, I need to share a conversation that took place early on in our adventures in the park - talking about the possibility of seeing bear... Well, we were discussing what might happen if people came across bear whilst they were out walking and Jay felt that simply taking a pot of honey with one would suffice... when I asked what made her think bears like honey - her response was, "Winnie the Pooh does!!!" So, if you are ever travelling in bear country, forget bear spray - simply take a pot of honey with you!!!

After having stopped at the general store for some ice cream (Jay is really loving the peanut butter ice cream... there is peanut butter everything in the States!!!), and a bit of shopping... (we have bought our little niece something really cute... but we can't blog it as she and her Mommy and Daddy are following the blog!!! But - we just couldn't resist!!!) Anyway - we finally left Yellowstone at about lunch time... and we had about 280 miles to do as we had booked our accommodation at Missoula... it is Independence day weekend and so we needed to make sure that we had our accommodation booked for the next few days... as it is really busy and the prices of things have sky rocketed... last night driving into West Yellowstone we noted that at one garage the price of petrol was $2.89 and it was $2.95 at the one across the road - so we decided that we would fill up this morning... well they were both marked up to $3.05 this morning... solely for the weekend travellers... and if you need petrol in West Yellowstone - you need to get it - as there is none for a number of miles in any direction!!!

We have travelled most of the afternoon on the Interstate 90 West - we do keep coming back to it!!! We have travelled through Montana... what a lovely state... even though we were on the interstate... the scenery is just amazing... although it was rainy and the sky was grey... Montana is called the 'Big Sky Country', as the sky seems so much bigger... we didn't quite know what that meant... until driving along the roads that go on forever and there are rolling hills and mountains and areas that are just flat in between... and the sky reaches all the way down to the ground... which it does everywhere I know, but somehow it just looks different... we didn't really manage photos of this today, but will hopefully take some tomorrow as our travels are not on the interstate...

Just wanted to say 'thanks' again to all your comments, on the blog as well as e-mails, SKYPE and Facebook... we don't know what we would have done without the laptop... it has been brilliant...

Thanks too for the positive comments about the photos... We cannot believe the cameras that people have over here - they are huge... although we have not been able to take real close ups of things, our camera is doing pretty well - even if I say so myself... I don't even want to consider how many photos we have... every day we go through them and delete the ones that we don't want... some days we still end up with over a hundred... even after the dud ones have been deleted... I'm trying to contemplate what our scrapbooks of this holiday may look like... when a holiday of two weeks results in two huge albums with over 600 photos in them... mmm... I have no idea what these albums will be like!!!

Suzi, you need to find a place on your map called MISSOULA... we are only travelling a short distance tomorrow... to Flathead lake where we are staying for two days - where we are going to try and do nothing!!! Before venturing up to Glacier National Park - which is where we were headed but could not find any accommodation for the weekend... so changed our plans!!! We can't quite believe that two weeks today we get rid of our lovely hire car in Seattle where we will then stay until the 20th of July before flying back to Boston for our final week on Cape Cod...

Old Faithful

***Miles travelled today: 135

***Total Miles: This is becoming a bad habit as we still have to calculate it!

***States travelled through: Montana and Wyoming

Being only five minutes from Yellowstone National Park, one would think there was plenty of time to get there before any exploring began, but not in our case! We'd already planned to complete a circular route that took us around the perimeter of the existing caldera and which included crossing the continental divide a few times (I know this sounds geeky but heyho - you guys already know this) as well as travelling between two States. Now 'that' would take half a day, but knowing how much stopping we'd have to do; we figured we needed alot of time and it's a good thing too. One just never knows what one will see !!!!

And so today's excitement began with spotting buffalo (yes I know that together with female elk, they are becoming 'a dime a dozen', but they all look different if you watch for a bit) and taking in the hideously wonderful smells of sulphur that permeated the air long before we found its base. It's really quite incredible to watch as the earth bubbles away in what appears to be huge mudpools - big enough for a party to roll about in. The mud is so thick that it takes the shape of a long bubble before making a 'gloop gloop' sound and bursting..... As for some of the scenery, it appeared at times that the landscape and rocks were 'letting off steam'. The steam was that sporadic that everywhere you looked, you could imagine tiny little kettles emitting plumes of hot steam into the air....

In all honesty, there were two things we were looking forward to seeing today - we both wanted to see the 'Grand Prismatic Spring' and Linz (in particular) was looking forward to watching 'Old Faithful geyser' erupt. You may not know the Spring by name, but I'm sure you've come across photos in magaziness/national geographic/TV etc where you've had this aerial view of what appears to be a bubbling lake with infinite colour - the oranges and yellows forming the circumference of the lake. Well, she didn't disappoint! The Spring was exceptional as the steam rose off its surface taking on the hues of rusty orange, mustard yellow and cyan blue (we debated the blue as Linz thinks it was aqua blue) and to sit and watch a while meant that you could almost lose yourself in a rainbow of colour, such that the smell becomes non-existent. Other springs didn't compare but were equally odorous and different in their character. From there, we made our way directly to Old Faithful where we were lucky enough to wait only ten minutes before she erupted (she erupts every 60-90mins). Linz waited with the camera whilst I looked around at the hundreds of people watching and waiting, some complaining that she 'was late' and others saying that she was 'on time'. I was looking for that 'one real geyser-gazer (pronounced guy-zerr-gay-zerr)' - the one with all the paraphernalia and log book and I found him - behind hat, glasses, tripod and Huge camera. Linz said it would be 'too rude' to take his photo, even from a distance! As for funny comments, a little boy who'd been impatient 'whooped' when she erupted and turned to his mother saying,"All she needed was a bit of support" (me thinks there's a social worker in there!)

As we left, we headed towards Yellowstone Canyon where we wanted to see the waterfalls that everyone had recommended. Some likened it to the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe whilst most Americans described them as 'grand'. Linz found the Lower Falls to be more impressive mostly due to the canyon and the fact that geothermal activity continues in the area. I prefer Victoria Falls.

On the way to the Falls, we came across a few young male elk (are they called bulls even when their antlers haven't velveted?) and again, spent time watching them watching us, clearly comfortable in the knowledge they were safe. A little further on, we discovered a huge traffic jam and wondered what was causing it, thinking it 'just had to be bear' but couldn't see anything except for a large crowd of people some distance into the plain. The ranger told us it was a mother grizzly bear with her three cubs,newly born in February and that we were welcome to join the crowd as 'there were some spyscopes out there'. Well, who needs a second invitation? Linz had barely (!) bought the car to a standstill and I was out! The only thing was that when you joined the crowds, the four bears looked like 'rocks' in the distance and our camera doesn't have a powerful enough zoom to capture the image. I wanted photos, not only to show Linz but so that others 'could also see' what I was experiencing, if that makes sense. A gentleman gave me permission to look through his 'spyscope' and what I saw was magical! The cubs were minute as they played and rolled about against their mother and the 'bear-watcher/spyscope owner' said he'd been there since this morning watching them. We chatted for a bit before I thought to set my camera lens up against the spyscope viewfinder and managed to get a few pictures - both zoomed in and from a distance. What a highlight! Who would have thought we'd be lucky enough?

As for the rest of the day, it all passed in a bit of a blur of steam and sulphur. We have walked a few miles and climbed over rocks to get the views we wanted. I've learned not to tie my hair up as I've burned my ears and Linz has learned to use self protection on her feet. All in all, another lovely day in the park. Linz is now using downtime by sifting through the 'library of leaflets, magazines, maps, business cards etc' that have been collecting these last eight weeks and has agreed to send some home (and get rid of duplicates). I'm smiling because she's even cataloguing what we have and this folks, is what makes her an 'organised scrapper' (scrapbooking) !!!!

Tomorrow we make for Glacier National Park but shall be stopping at Missoula on the way up.

Surprise surprise, we haven't even decided what route we're taking!