We managed to tour four National Parks while traveling from Rapid City, SD to Kalispel, MT. It was exhausting but we were able to see so much history and wildlife in one place it was worth it. If we weren’t on our way to Alaska we could have easily stayed in this area for another two weeks and seen so much more!
I woke up to the sound of blaring horns, with cramps in both my legs and a sore back. Took me a minute to figure out where I was. Oh Yeah, I’m parked in a rest stop in the middle of Montana. We spent the night sleeping in the car with the dogs. No road trip is complete without a night in the car, hunched over the steering wheel in a sleeping bag. Warning! This is not something that should be done by the faint hearted. But I consider it mandatory if you haven’t done it since you were 20. It’s a right of passage for road trippers. We had to get ourselves from the middle of nowhere Montana to Seattle. It was going to be a long day… Continue reading
Today began day one of a two day stretch with no stopping in a hotel. Since we decided to stay in Keystone an extra day we killed our other reservations and we (Lauren) decided that the trip had been too “structured” to date. I was happy to give it a whirl and see what came up. I jotted down a of couple notes on paper, regarding our route, and headed out. We were to be electronics free for this drive (with the exception of our camera of course). We ended up driving 626 miles from Salt Lake City to Montana, and ended up cutting through Idaho. We also saw some of the coolest terrain ever at The Craters of the Moon, drove through a town of 28 called Atomic City, got hit by a dust storm, learned what a scarp is, and drove through a canyon.