Jacqueline’s Jaunts

Today is a day of chores and a trip to the grocery store. Also, laundry and map out what we want to do at Glacier National Park. No rain today, sunny and cloudy all day with a high of 60°.  We had to make a trip to the local ACE Hardware for some items Barry needed to fix a few water fixtures. ACE had everything he needed. It was not only a hardware store, but it also sold knives made by a local person. They were beautiful, and Barry bought one,  Jody Martin -Montana Martin Knives. The one he purchased had an elk-horn handle. In addition to the knives, they sold guns and ammo—our kind of store.  Back to the RV for guacamole and chips, laundry, clean-up, and more planning for Glacier while listening to Bob Seeger.  There was police activity around the park, four cruisers up and down the park and road. Barry finally drove up the road and asked what was going on and if we should be concerned. Seems there is a men's prison up the road, and the police hang out to cat...

Woke up to rain and horrible wind. The wind was horrible. We sank about three inches overnight. It was muddy all around Julie, and Barry was not happy having to do all the hoses in the rain. I don’t blame him. We were on the road by 10:00 AM, and Barry was happy to be leaving Shady Rest. It was going to be a four-hour trek today—one of the longest travel days on the trip.   On our drive west on Highway 2, we passed beautiful fields of mustard plants that were in bloom. The yellow went on endlessly. Per Google, Montana leads the nation in mustard seed sales. I would have never guessed. The drive is through expansive fields of crops, and you can see as far as the horizon. All flat to rolling hills. I never thought of Montana as an agricultural state. Now and then, we would see herds of antelope scattered in the fields.  Before we came to a town called Havre, we saw these metal figures on the hillside along the road. As we got closer, we realized they were metal dinosaurs, mounta...