The Scenic Highway

To be precise, today's drive from Whitefish to West Yellowstone began a little after 8:30am, as we pulled out of Safeway's car park. During this incredibly picturesque (300+ mile) journey, we retraced some of our earlier drives, passing lakes close to Flathead and between mountains and forests. Montana is an incredible place.  Also, as we turned onto the Highway at Whitefish, a small bear ran straight across it and survived! We didn't see many cars en route, but managed the odd surprise, one being a trailer in the shape of a radio!

An hour out of Whitefish we stopped at a gas station in the middle of nowhere and was surprised to find on entering the adjacent store that it was a full blown supermarket and deli! (In the back and beyond you could buy large fresh pineapples for 99 cents). Closer to the end of our trip and desperate for coffee we called into a gas station at Ennis. We sat outside, drinking coffee and chatting to a couple who had lived in Tampa, but now dowelled permanently in a forty foot motor home, travelling the US .... not that unusual here. Pulling out of the gas station we noted our surprise that the town only served coffee at the gas station. Then we turned a corner, only to discover there was a full blown western tourist town! But the weather was good and we continued, arriving at our hotel, The Ctrosswinds, without incident.

And today's musical treat ... Bill Black's Combo, again. "Teenage Millionaire"