We left Medora, North Dakota and headed west on I-90 and then turned north toward Fort Peck. Across eastern Montana there is not much there except farmland and cattle grazing. What I discovered is that Montana has more than 94 million acres of land and less than a million residents. Following the road that we took it was easy to see as there were miles and miles of land and no one in sight! Montana's residents can be found in a handful of small, unexpectedly cultural cities and in the down-home, homegrown gas-station-and-grain-elevator towns sprinkled in between.
Montana has 147,138 square mi
les of land (4th largest in the U.S.) It became the 41st state on November 8, 1889 and the population is 989,415. Montana boasts two National Parks, Glacier on the north and Yellowstone to the south.We stopped in Great Falls for the night and had plans to head north to Canada, however we did not realize that the Calgary Stampede was in progress and we could not find a place to stay so not being locked into any plans we decided to change plans and we headed to Missoula for several days. We took several days to just "chill" I did some reading and also got some laundry done. Having the adventure bug, we headed up to Flathead Lake to view the Kerr Dam. It was an incredible sight. At 204 feet high, Kerr Dam is 54 feet higher than Niagara Falls. A 1,000-foot boardwalk takes you directly above the thundering falls, and an amazing view of the canyon!!!!
From Montana we once again found ourselves on I-90 and stopped in Post Falls, Idaho for a couple of nights. Weather was great and once again a time to stop and take a day off to take a day for ourselves.
Since we did not make it to Canada we decided to head to wine country. So we took a left off of I-90 and headed south on I-395 to Prosser, Washington to taste the wines of Washington State!!!
More on the wine country later.
Until then, I hope everyone is staying cool! Remember that we love to hear from you too.
Until later,
Candy and Johnny
