Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Glacier National Park - Going to the Sun Road

We have had a great time here in Northwestern Montana so far. We have been exploring the area, sampling the great food and drinking in the sights. I found a great Kennel/Day Care for KayCee, so we can run around and not worry about her.
This is a Canola Field in full bloom that is on the way to the Kennels.
After dropping off the House Frau yesterday we walked on the beach and docks of Whitefish Lake, stopped for Huckleberry pie, coffee and souveniers at the Hucleberry Patch in Hungry Horse on the way up to the National Park. We browsed through The Montana Fur Traders gift shop which had beautiful Indian Crafts and artifacts for sale. We continued on into Glacier National Park and had a picnic lunch overlooking McDonald Lake by the Apgar Village.
After lunch we caught a shuttle bus from the village and rode to the top Summit of the "Going to the Sun Road." It was a little hazy, but the views are awesome and I feel fortunate that the driver invited me to sit up front with him and I got some great pictures at the top!
It really helps them cut down on the traffic through all the road construction of repairing and reconstructing the road. We are going back tomorrow, as we didn't see nearly enough wild life. We have gotten some tips from the locals and those in the park who know where we need to go.....it should be an interesting day. I also will try to make it over and around to the east side of the park. Don't know how much we'll get to in one day, I hope to get an earlier start. It's a good thing we've got an annual National Parks Pass. We can go every day if we need to! It's not that far. Today we walked around the mall here in Kalispell, I ran into a good sale and bought a diamond ring.
Montana is special for shopping as they don't have sales tax here! We had lunch at Nickel Charlies, a Restaurant/Casino and now it's time for night night. I'm having a hard time with that, as it stays light til after 10 p.m!

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