Well, as I write this we are barely 30 miles from the
Canadian border in Shelby MT, a small town on the MT plains surrounded by
beautiful grain farms that stretch for miles.
The town has a large rail yard that is a BNSF railroad intermodal hub
and is obviously a major economic driver for the area.
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| Shelby is a proud supporter of American troops! |
We are staying in a small RV park for two nights so we can
visit Glacier National Park which is about 70 miles west of us. (More about that in next blog!)
We have really enjoyed our journey through Montana to this
jump off for the AK Adventure.
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| A roadside stream at a lunch break in MT |
It is
truly Big Sky Country – despite the beauty of the landscape the Sky seems to
dominate the landscape. Think about that
as you look at some of the pics we took travelling across the State. We spent about
4 days in Great Falls, a beautiful American City that is on the Lewis &
Clark Trail.
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A model of the Minuteman ICBM at Malmstrom AFB
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| The proud SAC (Strategic Air Command) emblem on a KC-97 in museum at Malmstrom AFB |
We enjoyed the trip and several days at the Famcamp on
Malstrom AFB in Great Falls. It is one of our nations few bases still
maintaining ICBM on alert. I enjoyed a
visit to their on-base museum of USAF historical artifacts!
We took a day and visited the nearby Little Belt Mountains.
BJ did some birding and I did a few geocaches including one that turned out to
be much more difficult then I expected but also provided some vistas of the mountains that I did not expect.
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| The geocache is over there! |
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| A quicker way down from the geocache! |
So we are excited about finally making the last dash for the border and looking forward to the first stage of our AK Adventure!
Always at home, no matter where we are!!
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