In the wide open spaces of the American West, sometimes you will not see the most spectacular scenery from the interstate highways. The real surprises begin off smaller highways and local roads that roll through the plains, twist though the canyons or climb the ridges of timeless landscapes. That’s […]
Saturday, August 20, 2005 – Today we have to drive about 700 miles from Jasper back to Helena, Montana. It was a long 12-hour drive without stops, so we left at about 7 a.m. We stopped a couple of times on the Icefield Parkway, including at Big Bend, […]
Sunday, August 14, 2005 – The next morning, we headed to the East Glacier to see the other side of the park. We traveled east on Highway 2 to Browning before taking Highway 89 north. We passed Lower Saint Mary Lake to Babb, where we took Route 3 […]
Saturday, August 13, 2005 – The next morning, we woke up and ate breakfast before heading out for a tour of Glacier National Park. Dad and my grandfather took a “man trip” to Glacier and the Canadian Rockies several years earlier. They raved about the beauty, so we […]
Friday, August 12, 2005 – Since I have gone back to school, I had a break between my summer and fall sessions. I decided to use some of my Delta miles to go on a trip with my brother to Montana and the Canadian Rockies. Jeff and I […]
Friday, August 16 – Today we headed to the northern part of Yellowstone. One thing we noticed was that the fire damage that we witnessed in 1992 had really given life to new forests. That year we noticed how badly the park was burned from the 1988 fire, […]
